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. So now we have Claudia Wilson who is here. She lives in Fort Worth which is a city right next to us here in Dallas and

also there's a lot of the time in New Mexico so I'm excited to have your question

with this Claudia. This is probably one of those questions you can answer with yes, but I'm really aware that there are a lot of racism exists in the world within cultures within within countries, and the white European types are probably the worst at this.

But do you think that the Islamophobic reaction we're seeing that there's a strong underpinning

of racism is what drives that that fear and hatred so the same people that are Islamophobes tend to be anti-Semitic,

tend to have other, there's certainly an element there of bigotry and racism

that extends beyond the Muslim community.

There are different types of Islamophobes.

You've got the far liberal rights, the Bill Maher types, right, you know, and you've got the hardcore extremely bigoted racist types that are

racist against other groups of people so the same people that will say derogatory things

about Mexicans and say derogatory things about

Mexican and about blacks and about whatever will also say it about Muslims, right?

And so yeah, there's definitely an element of white supremacy in much of that bigotry.

But it's not all, it's not across the board,

but it is stemming from them in many cases.

And what about within Islam itself?

I know there are three types that I'm aware of,

the third being Ismaili.

And I ask that a question once of an imam

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