Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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And Muslims find themselves in a very strange political place where you've got one side that seemingly wants to annihilate you and another side that only accepts you if you're willing to assimilate, but no one really allows you to be a full on American Muslim.
And so Muslims find themselves in a very strange place right now.
with all of the political sides, with the political parties.
So Muslims find themselves in an awkward place politically.
That's the best way to put it.
We are a religious community.
And so we don't find ourselves welcomed by the left, which has a hostility towards religion in most left spaces and most liberal spaces.
Right.
So the Muslim community is in its nature conservative for what that's worth, right?
It's a conservative community.
It's a community that has certain orthodoxies and practices that would make it disagreeable in its nature and its practice to many on the left.
And many on the right just see us as a group of foreigners and a threat in that regard.
So, yeah.
We find ourselves in this awkward place.
There's also the presence of sort of the pro-Israel dominance of both parties.
The foreign policy of both parties is detrimental to Muslims globally.
The securitization of the Muslim community in the name of countering violent extremism.
Unfortunately, the Muslim community has had both Republican and Democratic administrations just run over its rights.
So we find ourselves kind of in this awkward space, right?
We are a religious community that's also a minority.
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