Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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So that's a spiritual crisis as well, and a crisis of meaning and emptiness where I think people are willing to inflict great pain on others when they can't make sense of the pain in their own lives.
in the very beginning of the rise of, at that time actually, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, like when Islamophobia was at the center of many of the presidential candidates' campaigns at the time.
So this must have been 2015.
Yes, 2015.
the mayor of Irving at the time, Beth Van Dyne, who is now a Congresswoman, had put out the idea that Muslims were operating a Sharia court in Irving, Texas.
And suddenly there was a hysteria, because again, there's the idea that Muslims are here to dominate, Muslims are here to overthrow everything that you have in the United States.
There was a hysteria here.
And it was unfortunate because what it unleashed, especially with the national discourse at the time, again, the presidential campaign, Donald Trump says, I think Islam hates us.
When he uses those words, I think Islam hates us.
when Ted Cruz suggests that Muslim neighborhoods could be patrolled or should be patrolled.
And then you have the Irving mayor saying that one of the most populated cities with Muslims in America, they're operating under an alternative legal, an alternate legal system.
And funny enough, the year before that, she'd come to the mosque and she praised the diversity of Irving.
And she was talking about how welcome she felt in the mosque.
And the next thing we know, you have these crazy white supremacist groups, openly white supremacists that affiliate themselves with
The Klan and others protesting regularly in front of our mosques with their AR-15s and telling people to go back home.
And I'm like, I'm from New Orleans.
I'm not planning to move back to New Orleans.
I'm home.
We're home.
We're good.
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