Omar Suleiman

And I think that free speech is weaponized against the Muslim community and often is held up as this great value, but really to attain very lowly things and is often to our detriment.

Yeah, I mean, we have to interrogate

the foundations of our country when our country is in such turmoil and such chaos.

No country in the world has the mass shootings that we have.

No country in the world has some of the polarization that we have.

We have to interrogate that and say what it is that we're doing wrong that's leading to that.

And I think, again, that it's reaching a point where it's unsustainable.

If we don't do better,

and try to solve some of the rifts right now that exist in our society, then we're going to end up in a place where we may not be able to climb out of this.

Well, it was disgraceful.

It was a tactic that was used, you know, at the time.

very similar to the whole build a wall rhetoric to play to a particular political sloganeering and carrying out those types of acts against the Muslim community, you're not going to face much opposition typically in any meaningful way that would be politically costly.

When he rolled it out at the time, there were people in flight on their way to the United States that were held in airports around the country.

Children, elderly people that were held in these small rooms and treated awfully before being put back on a plane and sent to where they were.

There were families that...

had medical needs that were never able to come together.

He specifically targeted Muslim countries to play to that idea of a complete ban of Muslims, which he knew was not feasible.

at the time.

Now, personally, Dallas had the largest amount, the largest number of detainees in the airport.

We have one of the largest airports in America and we took to the airport and we stayed there for a few days, stayed overnight.