This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Hi, my name is Mike Bachman and I'm a United Methodist pastor and I'm excited that

we're able to share a little question and answer time with Imam Omar Suleiman.

He's here to answer questions from some folks

who have been part of our audience

as we have been having an extended conversation together.

So I'll introduce them each,

and I'm looking forward to hearing their questions and their response that

Imam Omar has.

Now we've got a question from Miss Hallee-Stuck.

She's a local here in Dallas and has a question for Imam Omar.

Aselemulicum.

That was great.

Oh, thank you.

I know a lot of Arabic Christians and I follow a lot of the things that are going on in the Arab world and the history.

And there have been some incidences and that I'd like to ask you about. I know there was the bombing of

a lot of churches in Egypt, about 30 churches, and a little Syria was formed in

New York, mainly by Christian immigrants who felt pushed out by the Ottoman

Empire.

And then there's talk of Christians being taxed in largely Muslim countries. How would you respond to that? Is that

cultural, is that political, is that in the tenets of Islam, how would you respond to that?

So just as I mentioned, there are very, there are a lot of instances where you do have

Christian persecution, but you also have some parts of the world where you have Christians persecuting Muslims and throughout history, you know, we've had different run-ins, unfortunately, and we've, you know know we've had some pretty ugly chapters in history

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