Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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There were families that...
had medical needs that were never able to come together.
He specifically targeted Muslim countries to play to that idea of a complete ban of Muslims, which he knew was not feasible.
at the time.
Now, personally, Dallas had the largest amount, the largest number of detainees in the airport.
We have one of the largest airports in America and we took to the airport and we stayed there for a few days, stayed overnight.
It was one of the New York Times pictures of the year when we did our prayer.
Because when we had to do our prayer, it wasn't just Muslims that came to the airport.
It was many people that came to the airport of different faiths that were outraged by what they had seen.
So when we do our prayer, there was a protest chant that you pray, we stay.
And so the airport had to make room for us because like a thousand people that needed to have our five daily prayers.
So we would do our prayers in the airport.
We waited.
We continued until the detainees were freed, at least temporarily.
Unfortunately, some elements of that legislation remained, and it was an ongoing struggle.
But look, what I'll say is that those are some of the more obvious manifestations of anti-Muslim bigotry.
But again, there's hypocrisy on all sides of the political aisle here in the United States.
There is Islamophobia of different flavors.
I think even the term Islamophobia can become contentious because there are people that attack us in different ways and that might not be as overtly bigoted, but
nonetheless are infringing on our rights to be full American Muslims.
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