Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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It's interesting because 9-11 now, we're talking over 21 years ago.
So when I'm talking to young Muslims, I'm talking about post 9-11, post 9-11, they're like, I was born in 2005.
What are you talking about post 9-11?
I'm like, well, I remember being a teenager.
I remember being in high school when this happened.
So a lot of us that experience 9-11 as high schoolers or as college students and remember distinctly what it was like to be a Muslim pre 9-11 and post 9-11, we can relate to that experience and we could identify that juncture very clearly.
and talk about it and speak to the change in the perceptions of Islam that happened here in the United States and around the world.
But a lot of young people are born into that reality and are experiencing the aftermath of it.
And unfortunately have to deal with the bigotry that has not just taken greater shape in media constructions of Islam,
but also policies, right?
A lot of the civil liberties of the Muslim community were taken away from us.
You read about the Patriot Act, you read about the securitization of the Muslim community and some of the unfair practices that have been engaged by the Bush administration, the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and continue into the Biden administration.
International Islamophobia.
And so,
the hatred of Muslims and the bigotry that is wielded against Muslims on the basis of this idea that we are a barbaric people that ascribe to a religion of hate and violence has had immediate consequences for us no matter where we are in terms of our age and in terms of our experience.
We have dealt with that in different ways.
Now,
The association of Islam to terrorism is a lazy association.
It's one that ignores both the history of violence as well as its everyday occurrence.
You know, we're good for how many mass shootings a year?
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