Sh. Hamza Yusuf and the "normalizer" discussion.
Help us understand the problem. Or is it a problem?
This is a video of Sh. Hamza Yusuf, after experiencing Palestine-related protests in Canada yesterday. He says he is “not a normalizer” and has “not normalized anything.”
Then there is this remarkable photograph:
Sh. Hamza Yusuf is a well-respected scholar. He has made mistakes, and dwelling on them is not the point of my post. Instead, it is on the word “normalizer.” What do you think a “normalizer” is in American Muslim nomenclature? Does meeting with the ADL in the UAE qualify as such an activity?
Is this bad, or can it be good, and how might it be good or bad?
Is this even the right frame?
Is there a different term or terms that could express better what is going on here?
I want to hear from you on this; please share your thoughts.
Alsalam alaikoum brother, it's obviously and undoubtedly bad because it's misleading, it give them a sense of legitimacy and adl is mislead although all the warnings even from prominent rabbis. The west (uk then us) are using Jews by antagonizing zionist for their own strategic interests of not having to deal with a unified Muslim entity ( Khilafa).
The west was kicked out of the Arab world after the second World War because they couldn't keep it (the resistance and the two new super powers), they change their strategy by having vassal states and israel as a watchdog/class bully but they knew back then that it will not hold for long as did experienced analysts.
Jews are being used as cheap soldiers ( biden speech "best spent 3 billion dollars ") and we suffer from it with the atrocities and the induced backwardness.
Even worse, doing it in the uae, which share a single common with the saudi, which is that, contrary to Arab traditions, there is no tracing of lineage of both al nahian nor al saud.
Luckily, bizn Allah, that will definitely change soon. If we read Quran 17:7, we'll understand that right after "the saddening of their faces, we will enter the Masjid Al Aqsa in chaa Allah".
The good thing, subhan Allah, that nowadays, all masks are off and we, MUSLIMS, see our path clearly.
With all due respect sir, it's pretty nonsensical for people to behave as if it's an open question whether it's acceptable for muslim community leaders to attend conciliatory talks with the ADL. The ADL has been such a vigorous lobbier for the Israeli security apparatus and has engaged in information campaigning for decades on behalf of Israeli crimes with such fervor as to be a parastatal organization de facto, if not de jure. The ADL exercises tremendous pull with the Jewish diaspora in America in favor of Israel's interests, the same diaspora that Israel spends so much money and man-hours trying to sway because of the enormous importance it has for them both economically and politically. So no, I do not at all hold it within the confines of acceptable conduct for someone billing themself as an islamic community leader to go and sit down to tea with these people who have and continue to do everything in their power to see our people in palestine killed in the tens of thousands and expelled from our homes in the millions.