Omar Suleiman

with trying to free the hostages of the synagogue at the time.

It was operating out of a church right across the street from the synagogue.

A day long, just wondering what was gonna happen, looking at the family of the rabbi at the time, wondering what was going to happen.

And trying to just be as supportive as I possibly could at that time.

Thankfully, they all got out in the evening.

And I think that, you know, looking back on that day, like my wife actually asked me, she said, would you have done it differently?

And I said, no, I really wouldn't.

Because I think that...

Things happen sometimes.

You've got to act on your good instinct sometimes, right?

And we talk about like being calculated.

I think sometimes we're calculated when we shouldn't be.

And that's when that good instinct comes in where you're called to do something else.

practitioner.

See, I can't separate anything about myself in that situation, right?

So when I had to pray, I had to pray to help people out, to give people words of comfort, to try to appeal to the senses of whoever I could at the time.

I didn't see myself as like a guy trying to

trying to show a particular part of Islam there.

I just saw myself as someone that was trying to help a family get their husband and father back, right?

And so it was more of just like that part of me was there.