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Omar Suleiman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

So what drives someone to dehumanize people to that extent that he was willing to go to a daycare and murder a bunch of kids because he saw them as a demographic threat to civilization?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

So Muslims are terrorized because they are falsely depicted as terrorists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Muslims suffer domestically and globally because of this false association.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

It's a lazy association.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

And when someone comes around and says, well, fine, not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

I say that you clearly don't read statistics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Whether we're talking about the 20th century, and I'm a student of history, and I believe you are as well, all the isms, World War I, World War II had nothing to do with religion, certainly had nothing to do with Islam, fascism, Soviet atheism, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Many of these systems where people were murdered in the millions, Nazism, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, I can go on and on.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

The Rohingya today, the greatest atrocity towards the Uyghurs,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Where does Islam fit in all of this?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

People do horrible things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

They stamp it with religion at times.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

But the only group of people that seem to suffer after an act of violence is committed are Muslims.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Because any act of violence that is committed by a Muslim will immediately be blamed on Islam.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

And 2 billion people will have to carry the burden of the act of a single perpetrator.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Absolutely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Look, in Pittsburgh, the synagogue shooting, the perpetrator particularly targeted that synagogue because... Tree of Life Synagogue.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Because he believed that they were taking in Syrian refugees or supporting Syrian Muslim refugees.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

You think about that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

the San Diego synagogue shooting that took place shortly after.