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 audiences. We've 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.

So now we have Nikita who is here to ask some questions and she's ready with notes and everything to make sure that she

gets those questions well. Thank you for having me. On behalf of my colleague that

had to step out I did want to make sure that her thoughts and and questions were acknowledged here.

So I'm going to read it for word here.

How do we change the general public's opinion of women's treatment in Islam

and show that is actually complementary, not contradictory to how many to how many women of other faith traditions feel.

I know we kind of touched on this a little bit earlier, but I think the biggest thing that she would like

you to address is how are we going to help change the public opinion?

So I think that Muslim women just continuing to be visible and

continuing to be successful. That's the greatest statement of empowerment that

could possibly exist there. No matter what I say about it, no matter how much we debate or discuss

it, right? It's at the end of the day, you know, you have to see those thriving successful

Muslim women. There are plenty of examples, as we've already mentioned right that are out there

and that are that are doing great things both in the worldly sense and also at the

same time living out their faith very proudly so I think that we have to, you know, there's the theological level of this, there's the intellectual, the academic level.

So obviously in academia we could debate topics of women's empowerment and even, you the you know there's a lot out there what

constitutes feminism that's a very everyone's definition of feminism is very

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