Omar Suleiman

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.

It was happening around the country infrequently, but here it was happening every week.

So the BBC reached out and said, we want to interview you.

And they said, we've got this idea.

We want to put you, we want to take you to a park and have you meet one of the protesters.

who's been wielding his gun outside your mosque and talk to him.

And it was really interesting because they'd interviewed him before meeting me and the things that he was able to utter before meeting me and before meeting Syrian refugees was just awful.