He's really not hard to figure out
Reader comment on item: IPT Profiles Hamza Yusuf

Submitted by Andrew, Jun 3, 2011 17:41

I don't understand why you consider him "difficult to figure out".

• He deplores and has spoken out against terrorism.
• He lauds some of the principles of freedom in the USA.
• He condemns some of the bad parts of the USA: our foreign adventurism, our hedonistic culture and our export of that culture. Do you think everything in the US is bluebirds and sunshine...?
• He thinks a couple cases of prosecution of Muslims (out of thousands) are perhaps suspect. I'm not sure I agree but then, millions of Americans think OJ Simpson was unfairly prosecuted, so it's not like disagreeing over court case outcomes is un-American.
• His original comments on Judaism are not really that "racist". I don't agree with it and he's retracted it, but Yusuf is hardly an anti-Semite. He's pointed out that his sister married a Jew and converted to Judaism, and he is quite familiar with the religion.

It's not contradictory to state that the average American prefers peace over war, and yet also say that the American culture "revels in war and violence". Have you been to the movies lately?

You go a bit overboard when you say he "allows his writings to be republished by a website devoted to 9/11 conspiracy theories." More like people quote him on their websites and he doesn't have the resources/interest to hire attorneys to track down every use of his words (assuming there is even a way to have it removed).

Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/2778/ipt-profiles-hamza-yusuf

Hamza Yusuf is genuinely one of the good guys.

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