What is really required and will become necessary will be to do a lot of very, very hard questioning. The key issue will be questions of global social justice, in America in particular. The prophetic voice of religion in this country has not been heard. We are caught in a cycle of patriotism, but when it runs its course I'm looking forward to the prophetic voice coming to the fore.
-from pg. 216-217 of "Hajj in a Time of War: An Interview with Moulana Ebrahim Moosa by Deborah Caldwell" in Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith (2002)
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