Hamza Yusuf – Islam Rejects Violence – Part 1

			guiding them to this theme among them is our use of
		

			blessing with this idea
		

			that we technique
		

			please be upon all of you, I want to say that
		

			I feel the spirit here this year was much higher than last year. So I want to speak to you tonight
about a very important topic that I feel is absolutely necessary that I speak about because I would
not be true
		

			to what I am feeling inside. In
		

			Russia.
		

			A group of people
		

			took hostage,
		

			a school filled with children.
		

			And that resulted in the deaths
		

			of several 100 people including around 175 children.
		

			And this atrocity unfortunately was done
		

			once again, in the name of our religion.
		

			And I feel that
		

			we as Muslims
		

			are suffering all over because of the acts of a handful of people.
		

			And we must, in one voice, condemn and completely reject the concept of indiscriminate killing in
this religion. It is neither from the religion
		

			nor is it sanctioned by the religion in any reading of our pre modern tradition.
		

			It is a modern phenomenon.
		

			And unfortunately, those practicing it have learned it
		

			from the Neolithic elements within Western tradition who innovated it from Marxism
		

			and from Asian philosophies that have a concept of the Kamikaze.
		

			This is not our tradition. And we must recognize that it is doing untold damage to Islam because we
cannot be so short sighted
		

			that we do not see the eyes of history looking upon us as a community. And I feel that what happened
in that that school
		

			is more heinous than the destruction of the Church of the simple curve that occurred under the
insane fatimid ruler a hack can be on the left and we suffer the fact that that is recorded in the
history books a blemish
		

			on the Muslim peoples as long as people read history, we must reject indiscriminate violence against
innocent
		

			because blood is too precious and it is our more that sanctified the blood of Benny Adam Minh as the
daddy got cut up
		

			in
		

			southern
		

			Germany and and for that reason the sanctity of life. We agreed upon Benny's raw eel and by
extension upon the Muslims, that anyone who kills a soul without just cause or brig injury in the
air.
		

			Terrorism, that is if they have killed all of humanity. And this is what has happened, we do not
count numbers. We do not say they killed 30,000 of us or 3000.
		

			We do not count numbers, every soul is sacred. And this has to be reestablished on the earth. Once
again, the teaching of Abraham on a sit down. And that is why our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam warned us
		

			been in
		

			public home publikum Ella, Hulu 15 beware of extremism in religion in religion, because it is
extremism and religion that destroyed the peoples before you. He did not warn it if it was not a
real and serious threat to the Muslim community. And so we this is the issue of the age. This is the
issue that the Republican Party is basing their entire platform on basing an entire political
platform in the most powerful military nation on the earth. It is based on the idea that Islamic
fanatics are a threat to the security of this country, and this must be condemned.
		

			We have a society now, that is facing social disintegration. We have the erosion of the middle class
in this country. We have homeless people, we have joblessness, we have erosion in our schools of the
standards of education, that were once the pride of this country that produced the scientists who
are now imported from places like India and Pakistan.
		

			This is the reality, we have an entire continent of Africa that has had over 40 million deaths by
AIDS. Twice as many people as died in the great plague of Europe, the black plague 40 million human
beings. And yet there is no funding for research into this plague that is afflicting the women of
Africa, in great numbers, that we are looking at 100 million people that are facing death by the
plague of AIDS. And yet we're spending $500 billion on a defense budget that is nine times greater
than all of the defense budgets on this planet put together. That is not right. It's against every
principle upon what this country was based. And this is the second extremism that I want to talk
		

			about. I believe that this country is being hijacked by a select group of extremists themselves.
Islam is not the only religion that suffers from extremism. There is an extremist agenda in this
country that is not in the best interest of the United States. And it's the goodness of this people
that every war that this country goes to is always done in the name of the highest ideals of this
country. Because the hypocrites that use those ideals for their own advantages. Know that in the
hearts of the Americans is a love of truth, a love of justice and a love of liberty. And they
believe that those should be values and virtues that are promoted throughout the world. And Muslims
		

			are here to stay. And Pat Buchanan said in a very profound essay, if this government thinks they can
wage war on Islam, like we waged war on fascism or communism or any other ideology, they have
another thing coming because Islam has been here for 1400 years and proved itself indestructible.
Islam is indestructible.
		

			indestructible, and that is what pat buchanan had to say. I respected republican Islam is
indestructible