Omar Suleiman

then you need to actually investigate and try to suspend bias, right?

Investigate the world's religions, investigate the claims to truth, investigate, use rational inquiry to the extent that the heart becomes satisfied and suspend bias and you'll be surprised.

And so for a lot of people, when they come to me and they say, this about Islam, I'm like, look,

If you're just going to talk to me about what you've seen of Islam in the media, if you were serious about it, if you're serious about it, then you're not simply going to be satisfied with the highly edited images and distorted facts that come towards you.

about this religion, right?

What are you looking for, right?

Are you looking for a scapegoat?

Islam poses a threat to many people, right?

Are you looking for a scapegoat?

Are you looking for the big, bad, scary foreign enemy?

Or are you looking at a religion that one fourth of the world adheres to?

And if one fourth of us were bad, the world would not exist.

So are you looking towards this religion that one fourth of the world adheres to?

Are you going to read about the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him?

Are you going to read the Quran yourself?

Are you going to investigate for yourself what it is that this faith has to offer and find in it a great sense of wisdom, a great sense of beauty, a great sense of truth?

And I think that for a lot of people, they find that Islam has such a beautiful combination of the intellectual proofs as well as the spiritual experiences that often combine what people seek in the Western and the Eastern religions.

So I had an interesting two weeks, two weeks in a row,

This was August, two weeks in a row.

I had someone who converted to Islam that went from being, that started off as a Methodist, went from being a Methodist to being a Buddhist to being a Muslim.