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 in 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'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.

And now we have Kelly from our audience here who has a question for Imam Omar.

Hi, I'm kind of cheating here because I'm going to hope that you'll fight some

battles that I've been fighting within unfortunately my own family.

So one of my best friends in the whole world is Muslim and was my maid of honor and my wedding

many many many years ago and we're still very very close which is why I'm here today.

So first I want to know can I wear the hijab without being disrespectful?

Of course you can yeah sure. Okay and what is the meaning of that?

First of all, I just want to do it so I don't have to do my hair every day, but...

But...

Well, I'd let one of the hijabis that we have here, but so it's and that's part of the beauty of America is that these expressions of solidarity that we've had as well.

Just wonderful people. And that's something that we feed off of it. of that are willing to even stand in solidarity.

The poor Sikh community, they've been attacked because they look Muslim,

okay, over and over and over again.

So they're being attacked for being Muslim even though they're not Muslim.

So it's wonderful to see solidarity and certainly you won't be disrespectful to us.

And I think it's wonderful to have people like you that are.

Well, I just didn't know if it would be taken as, you know, not making fun of them or making light of it, because I think it's a very intimate decision that the women make.

Just know to say why you come Islam when someone says now I come to it.

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