Omar Suleiman

the hostility of our enemies and the temporary and opportunistic embrace of some of those who claim to be our allies and be us and treat the world and treat the people of this world in accordance with your standards, not with theirs.

So don't teach them, you know, or don't let them teach you bad character, you teach them good character.

So live your life and live your faith beautifully and let people see the beauty of it through your being and do not let their ugliness consume you.

But at the same time, sometimes you got to give people room to express frustration, to say that this is unacceptable, to have demonstrations of strength.

And I think that those things don't have to all contradict each other.

Look, I think that you have to take it away from the text and look at it within reality.

Let's be real.

Would Muslims be able to protest in front of churches with guns on a weekly basis in this country?

I don't think so.

So pragmatically speaking, there's a hypocrisy too.

Major hypocrisy.

See, free speech is an ideal that is weaponized against the Muslim community and against other communities.

in such a hypocritical way.

You know, you take, for example, some countries in Europe, you know, let's kind of move away from this and look at the hypocrisy of a place like France, where the caricaturing and the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in derogatory ways,

will be used as the hallmark of free speech.

But Muslims that will caricature Macron or challenge some of the values of France, the supposed and trying values of France, will end up in prison and end up deported.

And so here in the United States, there's a great hypocrisy.

I don't think that places of worship should have armed protesters in front of them.

I think that that poses a security risk.

I think that it's not okay.