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Omar Suleiman

Muhammad Ali for Palestine

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Dear athlete, entertainer, or whoever it is that's been blessed with a voice,

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you may remember when Muhammad Ali passed away, he shook up the world once again. I'm gonna show you.

0:22.6

Those that once called him a villain lauded him as a hero.

0:25.6

Let the world know what I represent and fight for.

0:28.6

Every single person that has a platform spoke about how he was their hero and they wanted to be able to use their platform like he did.

0:35.6

He is the greatest of all time. And we specifically remembered when he took a stand on the Vietnam War when so few would.

0:42.2

You my opponent when I won't justice.

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He gave up his career at the peak of it.

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He lost his titles.

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He lost his money.

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And everyone around him told him that this was a bad idea,

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but his conscience and his sense of justice would not allow him to be silent.

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And so he took a stand. But what you may not know is that he also took a stand for Palestine.

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He wasn't just someone that would show up in a protest here or there. He was someone who actually went to Palestinian refugee camps in 1974 and who went to secure

1:12.9

the release of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in 1985, and he famously said, I declare

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support for the Palestinian struggle.

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And so I get it.

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When it comes to Gaza, when it comes to Palestine, your agent's probably telling you it's a bad idea for you to speak.

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You might lose speaking opportunities, you might lose some deals.

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