Omar Suleiman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam · 17 Jan 2023 podcast

You know, we're staying put.

And we refuse to be intimidated.

But then when the Syrian refugee crisis is unfolding as well, Dallas has been one of the more popular destinations, if you will.

I'm not talking about it like a vacation destination, but where a lot of refugees have come to just because of the infrastructure that we have set up here to receive refugees.

And so that hysteria was an unfortunate, perfect combustion of the national discourse with the local discourse with the incoming refugees.

And we would do all sorts of welcome refugee events.

And we do that, you know, and we don't only do that for Muslim refugees, by the way, there are refugees from other parts of the world as well.

Um, but we would host events at our mosques, you know, to welcome refugees, to help integrate them into the community, to do things for them.

So you have these armed protests happening, right?

And it's horrible because I think about the trauma to the children that are hearing about tree of life and hearing about some of these other incidents that are unfolding.

And really one of the first communities that was targeted was the Sikh community in Madison, um,

That was one of the first shootings.

And then the AME church, Charleston.

And then you just had tons of places of worship being targeted, right?

So they're seeing this unfold and they're seeing these guns in front of their mosques.

And the result to many is, well, I just don't want to get shot.

I don't want to go to the mosque.

I don't want to have this happen to me.

So, you know, when BBC reached out and said, we want to do a documentary about this.

Unfortunately, Dallas was the only place in America where you had regular armed groups in front of our mosques.

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