Omar Suleiman

I mean, the most dehumanizing rhetoric that you can imagine.

But then at the park, he meets me, talks to me.

He meets a Syrian refugee family.

One of the girls whose leg had been blown off in an airstrike.

And he said, I feel like an idiot.

I mean, he expressed all sorts of regret and was teary eyed.

That he could dehumanize people the way that he was.

And so my whole thing was and is come inside the mosque, put your gun down, disarm yourself and learn.

And you'll be surprised what you'll walk away with.

And only took one meeting with him to completely shift his worldview at the time, which was made up of heroes and villains, the Muslims unfortunately being the villains that had to be wiped off the face of the earth so that the earth could continue.

So that was an interesting documentary and it was an interesting social experiment.

It's not nice.

It's not great.

I mean, it's definitely a challenge.

But look, there are challenges that we face as Muslims being in the United States, being in a hostile climate, and there are different types of challenges.

And I think what we've had to do as a Muslim community is see beyond both the guns and the roses and think about who we are first.

Because frankly, Islamophobia exists in different forms and from different sides.

And we try to use this as an opportunity to instill in our young people, not just a sense of belonging, but a sense of purpose.

Do not be intimidated.

And in fact, show them the best of your Islam.