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Omar Suleiman

How can Muslim communities advocate for Black issues

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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So you know I think practicing Islam in this sense right so you know there's a lot of talk in this kind of work around

0:13.6

al-iship forming allegiances and serving as allies.

0:17.8

While that could be useful I think with a more pertinent discussion is

0:21.1

advocacy.

0:22.1

Right, how can messes? pertinent discussion is advocacy.

0:23.0

Right, how can massage it?

0:25.7

Because I mean, it's not just that mosques

0:28.2

have a credibility issue with non-Muslims.

0:32.0

You can go into some misadget across America in particular communities

0:36.6

and they look like geriatric centers. It's that misadget and Islamic institutions are losing their relevance even from Muslims in some cases, right?

0:46.0

People not finding comfort going there. I was raised, I was born Muslim, I was raised Muslim and I go into some messages and I don't feel the embrace and the

0:54.4

cultural and not even cultural just like kindness man I mean like like am I

1:00.3

welcomed here or not and And that is, I think, that comes across in several ways.

1:06.4

First of all, just the interaction, the personal interaction, how one is treated.

1:09.9

What are the topics of the chutba? Do I see myself in the curriculum of the vision?

1:14.8

What are the issues that are talked about in those announcements?

1:18.9

Like what issues are you taking up? I didn't see many Muslims out there for Philando Castile when he got he got

1:25.5

killed less than a mile from here and there are I think three or four Miss Adjit in this area. There were a couple

1:31.2

of Muslims around but I didn't see any mosques taking that up, right?

1:37.4

And so how are you?

1:39.1

So it's a question of relevance.

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