Omar Suleiman – The Man Who Called Blinken “The Butcher of Gaza”
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The speaker discusses their actions to support their parents during the pandemic and their desire to end the current crisis and challenge the administration with fear and weight. They also express embarrassment of their parents and siblings' actions leading to injuries to their families. A representative from AMP, the American National Association of National Publicity (AMP), is speaking to the Rest of the World about the " Rest of the World until" and the American Muslims for peace and justice. AMP's community is challenging and they want the community to not turn their back on a single institution or organization. They plan to hold a large convention in the spring, chant, and start chanting from the river to the sea, from Virginia to the sea, from the river to the sea, from the river to the river, from the river to the river, from the river to the sea, from the river to the river, from the river to the sea, from the river to the river, from the river to the sea,
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For too long, dear brothers and sisters, we
have been shackled.
We've been shackled by fear in this country
speaking for our brothers and sisters overseas.
We've been shackled by fear to speak for
our brothers and sisters right here at home.
You have political prisoners who it would be
terrifying to say their names from a convention
stage because to challenge the United States security
apparatus is to put yourself in its path.
And so we sat by the HLF-5,
the Holy Land Foundation-5 were taken away
from us.
Dr. Afia Siddiqi was put away.
And by the way, her sister is here
and I want you to say Allahu Akbar
as loud as you can to show that
we will stand with Dr. Afia.
Takbir!
I want you to know that your sister
is not forgotten by this community.
Imam Jameel Abdullah Al-Amin was put away
in a sham trial, a leader in this
country, a hero in this country.
And many of us looked away because to
support the HLF-5, to support Afia, to
support Imam Jameel is to risk staining yourself
with what they were smeared with.
It's time for us to take a page
out of the book of the people of
Gaza and to show that we are not
afraid.
We are not afraid to speak the truth.
We are not afraid to bear the consequences
of the truth.
We are not afraid of the people of
falsehood.
We are afraid of meeting the Creator who
sent His Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in truth
for truth, holding us accountable for our silence.
Now here's the good news.
Here's the good news, dear brothers and sisters.
You're seeing courage bred all over the world
right now on college campuses, in the streets
of the United States and Germany and France.
Throughout the entire world, they have not been
able to quell the fever that has been
born out of Palestine.
They have tried to torment.
They have tried to suppress.
They have failed in every regard.
They will continue to fail inshallah.
They have overplayed their hands because they have
hearts of stone and they do not understand
what is in our hearts and the hearts
of the people of Palestine.
Our fear is born out of faith and
our faith requires trust in the divine plan
and the divine plan is victory for our
ummah and reward for every single person that
sacrifices in His cause.
We are not afraid to stand for the
truth and face the consequences.
I want to end with one thing inshallah
ta'ala.
Some of you might have seen a particular
brother get thrown out of Anthony Blinken's hearing
the other day.
I don't know if you all know this,
but this administration does not like nicknames.
And so what do you call Joe Biden?
What do you call Joe Biden?
What do you call Joe Biden?
That's good.
He doesn't like that.
Staff doesn't like it.
It's humiliating.
It's embarrassing.
And only Allah knows what he's going to
see in his sleep tonight and talk about
tomorrow.
But his failure to see the tens of
thousands of Palestinians massacred by his constant sign
off requires that we challenge him, that we
shame him because this is perhaps of the
most shameful episodes of American history.
Anthony Blinken doesn't like the nickname Blinken the
Butcher.
Came out in one of the leaks of
the State Department.
Some of you saw this brother, Mohammed Habba,
come on up here.
I just had to do this to make
sure he doesn't heckle my speech.
I saw him backstage and I was like,
Alhamdulillah, you're not arrested again because it seems
like he's always in jail.
Mohammed and our brave brothers and sisters from
Colombia and those that you have seen have
stood in the face of the tyrants here
and have said to them what they hate
to hear, but in the process delivered a
clear message to the rest of the country
and to the world that we will not
rest until Palestine is freed.
And you know what's amazing about what, and
by the way, I have to say that
this is the incredible work, mashallah, of AMP,
American Muslims for Palestine, the Irvine 11, mashallah,
who I shouted out earlier today, who set
a precedent for student activists as well.
All of the work that AMP is doing,
all of the work that our brothers and
sisters are doing that are challenging this government,
this administration at every turn, somehow he managed
to speak longer while getting arrested than I
did in the last like 30 minutes.
Really impressive, mashallah.
But this isn't a joke.
This isn't a joke.
We do this because we feel like we
have to.
And we fear the consequences of our inaction.
And we fear meeting our creator with that
level of neglect for his creation.
If the people of Gaza are special, advocacy
for them is special.
And to all of the Zionists that will
be reporting on this event, I want you
to know from this crowd that this community
will not turn its back on a single
Muslim figure that is targeted by this state.
And will not turn its back on a
single institution or organization that is targeted by
the United States government, whether it's a Democratic
administration or a Republican administration.
We are all ikna, we are all mass,
we are all care, we are all AMP.
We will not allow them to isolate us
and to pit us against each other and
to smear or stain or surveil one of
us without the entire community saying back off.
And here's what I have Mohammed do because
I know that they're here, it's always nice,
you know, the Islamophobic outlets report more on
the ikna convention than it seems like Muslim
media does as a whole.
So I know that y'all are here.
I want Mohammed to lead some chants for
Palestine here.
And I want this to be the loudest,
the loudest, we got walls here.
We got all these thousands of people contained.
I want you, say what you wanted to
really say to Anthony, the butcher Blinken.
Jazakallah sheikhna, salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
I want to say it's a pleasure to
be with you all today, alhamdulillah.
Earlier this week we didn't think this was
possible.
Let's make sure that we're nice and loud
in here so they hear us outside and
they hear us in all these cameras inshallah.
Free, free Palestine, free, free Palestine, free,
free Gaza, free, free, from the
river to the sea, Palestine will be free,
from the sea to the river, Palestine will
live forever, free, free.
This last chant is something I need everyone
to participate in, every single one of us.
So the people in Gaza, when they see
this, they will see that their brothers and
sisters in Baltimore, in the United States, have
them on their mind and will not forget
them.
I'm going to start chanting, Gaza, Gaza, you
guys chant with me, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza,
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Takbir,
Takbir, brothers and sisters, they can arrest as
many people as they want, they can jail
as many people as they want, one night
in jail is nothing compared to what they
are doing to the people in Rafah, what
they are doing to the people of Gaza.
They can do what they want, but Anthony
Blinken will be remembered as the butcher of
Gaza and genocide dough will go down for
what he did in Gaza, Jazakumullah.