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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Hamza Yusuf Defends Violent Muslim Reaction To Mohammed Cartoons At Interfaith Event From The WEF In Davos Hamza Yusuf Defends Violent Muslim Reaction To Mohammed Cartoons At Interfaith Event From The WEF In DavosJanuary 22, 2015 MIM: Despite his radical Islamist track record Yusuf is often touted as a moderate and appeared at an interfaith event on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he revealed his true colors. "...Hamza Yusuf Hanson, a top Islamic scholar, agreed that radical Islam was what he called a "perversion", arguing that traditional Islam was "one of the exceptional religious movements that allowed other religions to live peacefully among them." MIM: About Hamza Yusuf: Hamza Yusuf was born (in Washington State) as Mark Hanson in 1959, to parents who were American academics. He became a Muslim at age seventeen and then spent ten years studying Islam in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Morocco, and elsewhere. Today he may be the West's most influential Islamic scholar. He commonly appears as a guest speaker at events organized by various chapters of the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada. In 1995, Yusuf described Judaism as "a most racist religion." In 1996 he expressed his contempt for the United States:
On September 9, 2001 – just two days before the al Qaeda attacks against America – UCLA's Al-Talib magazine co-sponsored a benefit dinner titled "Justice for Imam Jamil Al-Amin" (a convicted cop-killer formerly known as H. Rap Brown) at UC Irvine. Among the speakers at this benefit was Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, who spoke about the fate he foresaw for America:
At this same rally, Yusuf lamented that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as unfulfilled plans to destroy various Manhattan bridges and tunnels, had been "unjustly tried" and "condemned against any standards of justice in any legal system."... http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1062 |