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Omar Suleiman

A Conversation with Afreen Fatima on the Plight of Indian Muslims

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The calmness and the courage that you radiate at the same time and your calmness is courage is absolutely incredible

0:38.0

But what we also don't want to diminish the plight, you know, by praising the courage and praising the way you've been composed and the way you've been inspiring

0:46.0

Don't want to diminish the very real plight that you are in right now and that our brothers and sisters in India

0:53.0

are facing right now and it's significant and inshallah to Allah just for the few moments that we have, you know, we can inshallah talk about some of these things that maybe are not known to everyone else

1:06.0

And inshallah, you can give us our marching orders within the hantana

1:11.0

That's what we want inshallah to have for you to keep on telling us what we can do to support you in inshallah to Allah

1:16.0

So if we can kind of go back to the beginning

1:21.0

I think, you know, where were you a few months ago and where are you right now?

1:27.0

And just on a personal level, can you kind of tell us about how you go from being an activist in inshallah that is raising the voice of the plight of Muslims in India

1:38.0

And also Palestine and so many other things in inshallah you've been involved in having it enough

1:43.0

Just tell me about like these last few months and then how it sort of reached this point that it's at right now

1:51.0

To be honest, like, you know, actually my father himself is a sociopolitical activist and is a community leader in Allahabad

2:05.0

And I think he contested students in an election when he was in university

2:15.0

And he did not win the election but when I was in university and I just casually asked him once that

2:25.0

Because I think I know these are the problems and this is how we may be able to solve it as a students initiative

2:37.0

And he was super supportive and then he was super supportive and he always encouraged me

2:46.0

And in everything, like, you know, a lot of times people would in fact be surprised that a Muslim father can, you know, allow his daughter to be an activist

2:58.0

And so, for me, like, I just finished my master's in linguistics from Jowarlal near university

3:07.0

And currently I'm working as a researcher with the police project

3:13.0

At the same time, I don't believe that I am an activist or that I would use that label for me

3:20.0

But at the same time, I think I am someone who just, you know, arrives and speaks up

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