All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don’t want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
Where you don’t have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war. Hamza Yusuf Read Quote
