Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

I believe many of our country's differences stem from the lack of genuine appreciation of the cultures and religious traditions and beliefs of our various communities.

Muslim societies – including Saudi society – are susceptible to conflict if channels for responsible dialogue are not opened up.

Islam contains the principle of the umma, i.e. a tendency towards the unification of all Muslims in a single community - religious, cultural and political. Islam is not a nationality, but it is the supranationality of this community.

In quiet ways far too complex to hold Trump's interest, Muslims in the United States and around the world are helping every day to prevent massacres such as Orlando from happening.

What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

Our Muslim friends must learn from previous waves of immigration.

About three million Muslims live in the country, but we have no relationship to our diverse Muslim society, despite the fact that it's an established part of our larger society. We need to build a stronger foundation for the relationship between Muslims and the state.

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.

If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean, that's a big challenge itself - but how we think about all that as Christians, or as Jews, or as Muslims, or as Hindus. How do we think about the religious other? There's a theological dimension as well as a civic dimension to our pluralism.