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Salam alaikum warahmatullahi walaam

The struggle for social justice has been on many of our minds

There are so many issues out there that we care about

Police brutality

We care about things like the plight of Indigenous, the plight of minority groups

Incoming equality as Muslims, what is our role with regards to these issues?

What's the role of these issues in our faith?

And how do we navigate some of the issues that arise with regards to some of these causes?

Welcome to Double Take, a podcast by Yakhlin Institute that looks into questions and ideas regarding our faith as Muslims that give us pause.

Today on the show we have none other than Dr. Omar Soleim and the founder of Yakhlin Institute,

the president of Yakhlin Institute, he wrote the article Faithful Activism

And today on the show we're going to discuss just that Faithful Activism

Sheikh Omar Soleim, thank you so much for joining Double Take.

This is your first episode in Shalom. There will be many, many more.

This is such an important episode, but thank you so much for joining us.

Exactly, look at it. I'll let you know if I come back depending on how bad you grill me.

I've seen what you've done to some of the others, so I'm like already getting like nervous in my seat, you know.

You know, honestly, I was nervous today because we're in a makeshift studio, as you can see, I'm in Melbourne, a friend studio.

And the last time I sat down to record with you, Sheikh Omar, you might recall just so that I can get it right.

I, it was in Qatar and I hired a room in a hotel just so that it could be peaceful away from everyone.

I pressed record and it just didn't work.

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