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Omar Suleiman

Out Of Context - Part 6

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The “All-Terrorists-are-Muslim” Myth – Omar Suleiman In Part 6 of the interview with Dallas-based Pastor Mike Baughman, Imam Omar Suleiman dispels the myth that all terrorists are Muslim, noting the huge disparity between the amount of media coverage given to the rare cases where perpetrators were actually Muslim and when they were not.

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This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. So along that vein there's also this the statement that I heard during one of

0:19.8

the presidential debates and and I think I've heard in some other settings in kind of popular culture that that not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslim.

0:30.0

Now, again, like we have Google so we know this is not real.

0:35.0

Yeah. Right, like, terrorists come unfortunately for our world in all shape, sizes, across the board. Terrorism is not no one

0:48.6

tradition has a monopoly on that. So I think we can clearly dispel that myth again. We have Google. It's pretty clear.

0:57.0

And we have a newspaper and fortunately we have other politicians who are combating that notion including

1:03.8

uh... the mayor here in dallas who who is pushed up against that right so

1:07.1

so i'm curious like how

1:10.3

where do you think this notion comes from?

1:13.0

Why do you think that that is getting like a foothold in popular culture?

1:17.0

Sure, sure.

1:18.0

In 2015, there were over 300 mass shootings in America.

1:22.0

Only two of them were committed by Muslims. over 300 mass shootings in America.

1:22.9

Only two of them were committed by Muslims.

1:26.7

But the amount of media time that those two shootings got

1:30.8

was more than 298 other shootings, right?

1:35.0

And we are quick to assume, if we can find a Muslim name

1:39.0

when an attack happens, if there's a Muhammad in there, if he looked a little brown,

1:42.0

if she looked like she might have been right away it's a terrorist attack before the facts are put out there. Right, you know, and even San Bernardino, the terrible tragedy of San Bernardino, a lot was lost in that by the way.

1:53.0

Number one, there was a Muslim lady that's a board member of a mosque over there

1:58.2

in California that was shot three times.

2:01.6

She didn't die, thankfully, but she was shot three times. So this clearly

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