Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.