This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com so the BBC reached out and said we want to interview you

And I said we've got this idea. We want to take you to a park and have you meet one of the protesters

Who've been wielding his gun outside your mosque and talk to him

It was really interesting because they'd interviewed him before meeting me and the things that he was able to utter

Before meeting me and before meeting Syrian refugees

Was this awful? I mean the most dehumanizing rhetoric that you can imagine

But then at the park

He meets me, talks to me. He meets a Syrian refugee family

One of the girls whose leg had been blown off and an airstrike and

He said I feel like an idiot. I mean he expressed all sorts of regret and

was teary-eyed

That he could dehumanize people the way that he was and so my whole thing was and is come inside the mosque put your gun down

Disarm yourself and learn and you'll be surprised what you'll walk away with

And only took one meeting with him to completely

Shift

His worldview at the time

which

Was made up of heroes and villains the Muslims unfortunately being the villains that had to be

wiped off the face of the earth so that the earth could continue

The following is a conversation with Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman

He's a Muslim scholar civil rights leader founder and president of the Yakhine Institute for Islamic research

And he's a professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University

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