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America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

Hamza Yusuf

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Hamza Yusuf
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
Islamic Scholar
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Walla Walla
Washington
Hamza Hanson
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