Omar Suleiman – Thoughts On Dallas Shooting

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			the brothers to come forward from now on shot lontana because we already have people going into the
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			So it's been a crazy 24 hours.
		

			And the things that we have seen, and the things that we've experienced here in Dallas,
		

			and national tragedy, and in fact, the global tragedy coming to our own front door.
		

			And somehow a lot in the last 12 hours, or 15 hours or so. We went from mourning the unjust debts of
Alton Sterling and so many people like him innocent people whose lives have been taken due to police
brutality to ourselves and many people from this community, in fact running for our lives from a
shooting. And then today just coming from mourning the lives the lost lives of police officers. In
all of these situations, children no longer have their parents with them. And in all of these
situations, innocent blood is shed.
		

			And so had a lot it's there. I didn't really have a hope for prepared at all. If you haven't figured
that out by now.
		

			But I would just like to share with you all just a few thoughts in a few words on the climate that
we live in right now. We are far too comfortable living in our bubbles. We are far too comfortable
living in our privileged situations with our lifestyles.
		

			Living in our Mashallah nice homes, in our nice community here in Valley Ranch. And in many places
around the world, the Muslim community has, you know, grown in the sense of a suburban presence
grown in the outskirts of cities, a very affluent community in many situations. While still some of
the massages that are doing the hard work inner city are left absolutely neglected, such as our own
Muslims and Islam, and Imam Khalid and the wonderful work that he does feeding the poor, every
single week, from his Masjid, and all the work that they do, but we're very comfortable in our
bubble. We're very comfortable with our lifestyles, we're very comfortable with this Islam, that
		

			doesn't require any level of sacrifice on our parts. We're very comfortable within Islam that tells
us just pray and be a good person and be nice and celebrate, eat and do as many Romeros as you can
and do as many hedges as you can. And your Islam is good. We're very comfortable in our narcissism.
We're very comfortable in neglecting tragedy around the world. And some how to law what we are
seeing in these last few months, and in these last few weeks, in particular, is that even if you
want to close your eyes now and try to escape it, you can't escape it, it'll be right in front of
you. It could be you at any moment running for your life, at an airport in a metro put in a city,
		

			you know, Center City in Dallas, a place like Dallas, Texas and an airport. And even when you go for
your own route to the most peaceful city, in the world, in a Madina munawwara it could come right to
you. It could show up right in front of you. And next thing you know you will be running for your
life and some how to lower light The only thing and one of one of
		

			our brothers made the comment yesterday said What were you thinking about when you're running from
the shooting when you hear the bullets and you're running. And that was my first time experiencing
that. And I immediately thought of our brother out of salon, two gentlemen in Houston, may Allah
subhanaw taala give them a full recovery who would have the lows in recovery right now. And as he
was shot and stabbed as he was going to Salafi, the only thing that he did was he kept on reciting
La ilaha illAllah, even as he lay it covered in his blood, before he was put in a in you know,
sedated and no longer able to recognize the surroundings. All he was saying was La la la la, and
		

			some how to LA it can strike you at any moment. But I don't want to focus on that part. I want to
focus on our climate. And I want to focus on the situation that we live in, and the country that we
live in, and the world that we live in, and what your responsibility is, it's not my responsibility.
It's not the responsibility of a few national Muslim activists. It's not the responsibility of
cepheus that or some other Messiah. It's your responsibility. It's my responsibility. It's it's each
and every single person's lots to actually care about things that are going on around them, even if
they don't directly seem to affect them.
		

			Because as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, or as Abu Bakr Siddiq or the man who
narrated that the Prophet slicin I'm sad, in anassa, either Oman kar La Jolla, Runa, Osaka and
Yamaha la via a copy that when people see evil and they don't do anything about it, then it's only a
matter of time before they're all consumed by it. For how long? Do you keep your heads buried in the
sense for how long do you pretend like there isn't institutionalized racism in this country, that
there isn't a serious issue in this country? For how long do you ignore 400 years or 500 years of
the history of the nation that you live in? For how long do you ignore people that are just like
		

			you, people that are just like you that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
dealing with the wrong people, and ended up having their lives taken. And for every Alton Sterling
in Baton Rouge. There are multiple hundreds, if not 1000s of people who didn't have the privilege of
a cell phone camera setting light on what they went through.
		

			And you know what, if you were to be in that situation, you would be vilified after your death as
well. Don't think that they would spare you and say Mashallah, he was a nice Muslim doctor living in
Valley Ranch. They would connect you to ISIS in 30 seconds, they find a way they find a way to make
your past look bad enough to make your unjust murder justifiable. That's how it works. And that's
how it's constantly worked. And for too long. We continue to bury our heads in the sand. And we're
waiting and bracing for the Muslim community's turn. We're waiting for our massage to be attacked
regularly because black churches have been burned down quite regularly. We're waiting for the
		

			environment that we're starting to see signs of now. And so Pamela, still, many of us
		

			choose to ignore it at the same time, completely reaffirming that violence is not a solution to
violence, and one car La Mancha. This is a principle in our religion. It's fabulous he acts and
repel evil with that which is better evil cannot change evil. A lot does not call you to munkar to
change one cup. A law calls you to accept a law calls you to excellence a law calls you to do good a
law calls you to respond with a better way to provide an alternative. A law does not tell people
that they should not be angry about injustice, a law just tells them to be just in dealing with
injustice. Allah subhana wa tada does not tell you that you should be finally being alive. People
		

			have no anger. Allah tells you you should be cowardly mean to live people that swallow their anger
and that are composed and that know how to channel their anger properly. So that legitimate causes
don't end up being D legitimized by illegitimate tactics. It's the same thing, the same game that we
see played in Philistine all the time in Palestine all the time, where what those people have had to
face for the last 60 years can be D legitimized by one action of frustration. The entire cause
suffers, and everyone pays the price, more blood is shot, more people are killed, because there
wasn't a solution of hope that was provided. If you keep on pacifying people and telling people to
		

			be quiet and not do anything about their situation, or that this is an acceptable way for them to
live in, unfortunately, many times you have unjustified manifestations of anger. So we should feel
pain, we should feel grief. But what do we do about it? The same thing with Syria, when this
fanatical group, the keylab, of dinar, the dogs of Hellfire and darish, the whole outage of our era,
manipulate at times the genuine frustrations of people that people have, with a hopeless situation
in Syria and Iraq, and in other parts of the Muslim world. It's the exact same scenario playing out
over and over and over again. So where's the hope?
		

			And at what point do we say enough is enough, without waiting for things to get completely out of
hands. And somehow, Lola if someone thought for a moment, because sadly, and I was at that protest
last night, and 99% of it was peaceful, and the anger was justified. But sadly, some people thought
that taking the lives of police officers, even Dart officers, people that were there, ironically, to
protect people from shout, you know, as they shouted their frustrations with the system with a very
real problem. And those people had to lose their lives. How sad is that? How sad is it that some
people thought that that was a proper manifestation of anger, that because we are genuinely upset
		

			and outraged over the loss of innocent life, over innocent black people being murdered in this
country over and over and over again, and everybody else closing their eyes and pretending like it
doesn't exist. But they're not human. Because every single time you hear their past and they vilify
the victim, and you say, oh, man, maybe he was wrong. Maybe that person had a right to die. How many
times do we ignore that? And somehow Allah, all of us suffer as a result. And I want to just right
now, make this clarification and say this from now. We have wonderful police officers that are
standing outside this messages. We have officer McBride, who every single time I pull up into this
		

			parking lot, gives me a huge smile, make some sort of joke about my parking spot being taken most of
the time tells me something beautiful smiles at the community as they come out wonderful police
officers that stand out there every single day. And I want each and every single one of you to thank
them on your way out seriously stop by and thank them, stop. If you haven't already done that. I
hope you already have a few times but seriously today, they need that reassurance that we don't hold
them accountable. We don't hold everyone who Dawn's a police uniform accountable. We know what it's
like as a Muslim community to be generalized and stereotyped because of the actions of a few idiots.
		

			We know what that's like it happens to us every day. We're experts at that. We're experts at being
victimized because of people that claim to be of us. good cops are victims of bad cops as well. So
go out there and thank them and tell them that you appreciate them. And you know, somehow luck aside
that you won't see of the demonstration yesterday is that some people were taking pictures with the
cops and thanking them for being out there.
		

			It's a part of
		

			What makes this beautiful, but we can disagree and we can, we can show our pain and still be
protected. And that's a very Islamic concept. By the way. That's not something that you realize in
most Muslim countries, unfortunately. But that's a very Islamic concept. And that's something to
thank them for and to applaud them for. But the brothers and sisters we cannot forget. And I don't
even want to use the word but because they are all the victims, the cops and all of these people
that have been killed,
		

			in the case of Black Lives Matter, hundreds of years, hundreds of years, different manifestations of
racism and slavery, for hundreds of years in this country. They are all the victims of stupidity, of
chaos, of senselessness of hatred, of fear of xenophobia, all of these forms of bigotry eventually
results in violence. And in some, in some cases, unfortunately, violence that actually claims the
lives of people. And somehow to law, I just want to ask the Muslim community, how long will you bury
your heads in the sand? How long will you not tell your children about a person like Trayvon Martin,
I remember when that case took place. When a young boy who went out to buy candy, you know, we have
		

			a gas station around the corner as much as we tell our kids not to go there during Ramadan, how many
of our kids went out there to buy candy, I'm coming back to the mustards when a young boy goes out
to buy candy and is murdered, and then his murder is let go. And his murderer is let loose. And
guess what george Zimmerman is now today? He's an islamophobe.
		

			Not only does he hate black people, not only does he hate me, but he's also spewing Islamophobia.
And there are Muslims that defended that action. Because they bought into the pictures of Trayvon
Martin as a kid doing what a lot of your kids do. You just don't see the pictures.
		

			And they allowed you to believe that a 17 year old kid who went to buy Skittles deserve to die.
		

			And his murder was justified. And you bought that. let's not pretend that that conversation didn't
exist in our privileged, suburban Muslim community. You bought up? A lot of you did. A lot of people
said that that was okay. A lot of people said, Well, we didn't see what really happened. A lot of
people made excuses. And guess what, same people, same people, these white supremacist groups that
we see today, do you think that they just came out? Do you think that they just arose because of
ISIS and because of Muslims? Don't you know how long they've been here? This is a resurgence over
and over and over again. So what do you do you fight the cancer? You call it out. You stop living in
		

			your bubble, you stop waiting for it to show up on your front door, you stop waiting for it to show
up at your Masjid, you teach your kids about that you have that conversation with your kids, your
kids who in many situations are are living in such a case of privilege, that what gets them down at
night is that they didn't get their latest PlayStation game or that their favorite sports team last
bus the greatest tragedy they've ever faced in their lives in some of these situations. And then you
wonder why they're Narcissus, and don't care about the world and don't care about their religion.
You create a monster whenever you sell to them, you teach them, you show them that they need to be
		

			protesting this to that they need to be saying something about this, too, that a lot of those kids
that died, we're just like them, because it keeps on happening. And we are the victims as a Muslim
community over and over and over again of dehumanization. It stinks, doesn't it? It stinks when
people don't care when when 200 or 300 of your oma are slaughtered in the marketplace and that it
stinks Doesn't it hurt? Doesn't that stink? That's not that's not accidental. that's intentional.
That's because you're less than human as Muslims now. Welcome to the world of black people.
		

			Welcome to their world. They've been dealing with that for a very, very, very long time. And a lot
of us have stayed quiet about it. If we don't raise our voices, and if we don't get out of our
bubble, then our bubble will be burst in ways that we don't want it to be burst. And we have to show
people a better way. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not turn away as a Muslim woman. He
did not turn away people who were oppressed, even the non Muslims, and he said sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam if I was to be called, even after Islam to Helfer football, to that Alliance, to that
allegiance that we all took when we put our hands on the cabinet
		

			And we said that we will not allow a single one of us of our society to be targeted unjustly. He
said, so a lot of it was sudden, I was called to that in Islam, I would do it again. Yes, the
prophets lie Selim would cooperate with non Muslims. Yes, the prophets lysozyme would stand with not
only Christians and Jews, but pagans in Mecca. The prophets like Selim would stand with idol
worshippers to ensure that no one is treated unjustly. That's our Islam. That's our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And if you have the bandwidth, to condemn one murder, and to condemn
one act of violence, then you better not be silent on all the rest of them. We know how it feels
		

			with the Palestinian cause. When all we see are the moments on CNN and Fox News and whatever it is,
of one Israeli civilian that was unjustly killed. We condemn that we don't allow or tolerate the
loss of innocent life. It's counterproductive and it's an Islamic, we hate how that feels. When 60
Palestinians are ignored. Let's not do that to other people. Let's not do that to other people. Our
Prophet sallallahu wasallam did not teach us that. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to open our
hearts, to make us the people that stand for justice, to make us the people that stand for peace, to
guide us to that which is best for us, to not allow us to delude ourselves into going astray in ways
		

			that we don't recognize. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to forgive us. We asked a lot to protect our
community and our general community, not just our Muslim community, but our community as a whole. We
ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to protect us from a means to protect us from the oppressors and the
transgressors and whatever manifestation they are, we ask Allah subhana wa tada to have mercy on the
oppressed as he sallallahu I think he was Salaam taught us that that was the death of a
transgressive person of an oppressed person. There is no hate job between that person's day and a
loss of hundreds of hours, even if they are non Muslims. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us
		

			people that stand for the rights of those whom he hears. If Allah subhana wa tada hears those
people, then we should hear them as well, then we should be there for them as well. Dear brothers
and sisters, before I sit down and I end this Hold on, it's a short hook, but I didn't have anything
prepared today. I really did not have anything prepared today. But before I sit down, to insist on
human dignity as part of our Deen and some halala, the civil rights movement did not start off with
the shooting. It didn't start off with violence. It started off as one of the major starting points
of it, or sparks of it was Rosa Parks sitting on a bus and insisting that she did not have to get up
		

			from her seats. And you know, who led the civil rights movement? You know, who loved the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, a 26 year old. Think about that. Martin Luther King Jr. was a 26 year old leading the
greatest movement in the history of this country. How many of our 25 year olds or 26 year olds
		

			care anything about the society around them? Think about that. And think about what our Dean calls
us to May Allah protect us and May Allah forgive us and May Allah Subhana Allah make us people who
are people of sick people of truth and who stand for truth Allah I mean Apollo Kali hada was tough
while you will accompany sorry must mean First off, fill in the hole
		

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen whatever it was a while. I mean, what are people to limit Sabine?
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala avocado silica Mohammedan sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. While
Ernie he was so happy he was saddened to see him and kathira the brothers and sisters Allah subhanho
wa Taala calls us to remember our generations that came before and to learn from the omens that came
before us the nations that came before us. And in this country, we have a serious generational
problem. We have a serious generational problem. Now connects Rahim Allah was martyred in his 30s
Martin Luther King Jr. died in his 30s people cared about people around them in this country. And we
		

			don't we do not have room to allow narcissism to destroy us spiritually and to destroy us as a
community. So I want you to think the message is Ramadan, tourists empathy, think. Don't just think
about people that are hungry around the world as you fast. Think about people who have their lives
unjustly taken from them. You should also have empathy for
		

			If Allah subhanaw taala wants you to have empathy with hungry people, then what about people that
are shot and killed for no reason? What about them? Think, have empathy, grow, grow your emotional
bandwidth, make yourself a little uncomfortable. And the law he one law, he will lie. And this is
not. I'm not I'm not saying this to portray some sort of courage or bravery here. The next Black
Lives Matter is Black Lives Matter protests. I'll be there inshallah. And I hope our community shows
up again, I hope that this didn't cast fear into anyone's heart and to say that, hey, we shouldn't
participate anymore. I'm worried about what's going to happen. We still have to be there. We still
		

			have to go. Not just for Philistine, we should go to the Palestinian ones to not just for Syria, we
should go to those as well. But for those who are unjustly targeted, every single day, in this
country, every 28 hours, a black man is killed by the police. And again, it's a small fraction of
that police force. Our anger is not towards the police. It's towards police brutality. Our anger is
towards a system that allows for villains and evil people to exist within it and NGO covered and
protected which harms their colleagues and harms everyone else in the society. So May Allah subhana
wa tada protect us and have mercy upon us and May Allah subhanaw taala bring peace and calm to our
		

			city. It's a traumatic time for our city May Allah subhanaw taala bestow Sakina upon our city, may
Allah subhana wa tada protect us and protect our communities around the world may Allah subhana wa
tada forgive us when we fall silent at times when we should speak and when we speak when we should
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