"you always know when you live in Gaza that it's only a matter of time before the next bombs drop you know if you're in Gazza that you are waiting for your death people dream about going out in the wor..."

"with Imam Dr Omar suan his second time on the podcast he is a Palestinian American a Muslim scholar a civil rights leader president of the yakin institute for Islamic Research and is one of the most i..."

"so it's a pretty familiar cycle in some ways where there are daily transgressions against Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza the checkpoints the aggression on MJ AA the settlements expanding th..."

"Palestinian casualties are always your footnotes the daily humiliation of occupation ignored the aggression by settlers and soldiers alike on holy sights and souls the annihilation of entire families ..."

"legal determinations of apartheid have been reached the occupation is only getting more aggressive sharen abaka a palestinian-american journalist is shot dead in 2022 in front of the world the United ..."

"protection of the state with Israeli soldiers and throughout this time it's like something bad is going to happen and then 2023 comes along you had 13,000 settler units in 2023 a plan of 13,000 settle..."

"you've given people absolutely no hope and so I I think that as we're watching that you know it's important for us to actually interrogate the ignorance that people have of the Palestinian plight the ..."

"you know that there is no two-state solution that we will never allow a Palestinian state to be established but at the same time here's your $3 billion check and uh if the United Nations issues any so..."

"kills Palestinian journalists it also makes sure that American journalists are only able to tell a certain story they're only able to see Gaza from a certain perspective they're only able to speak abo..."

"you can't disconnect a very human story from the political plight you interviewed Muhammad Kur you met him what did the world do when it saw the images of the CED household being taken over by a guy f..."

"it's Israel and Gaza where are the Palestinian people the millions of Palestinian people that have either been removed from their land or are being tormented on their land where are they in this discu..."

"slaughtered and you can't do anything about it and the people around you are justifying that Slaughter if you turn on a TV or if you open a mainstream news site these sites are justifying your Slaught..."

"the people you're somebody who's always rushed into the midst of a crisis so what does it feel like on a personal level to not be able to do that here to go to Gaza to help yeah it's it's really hard ..."

"make us voiceless they have reduced our casualties in pal to a number the number is hundreds a day over 30,000 people we're averaging 10,000 people a month the fact that they've been turned into facel..."

"day it's not just them who are being killed it's your hearts that are dying and I think that when I look back to Dr Martin Luther King Jr and I I mentioned this he wrote about Vietnam he said that if ..."

"the worst of the genocide while on TV I mean and this is this is insane when you think about it we have over a hundred journalists now right that's more than any conflict in history that have been kil..."

"what is happening in Gaza since October 7th what has been happening there the individual stories and the broader impact on the 2 million people there Gaza has been described as the world's largest ope..."

"distressing you know I I remember in uh 2021 there was an image that I will never forget of children having to go back to school after the bombardment of 2021 and next to them they would have the empt..."

"occupation has even had their diets restricted and has suffered under Israel State policy which is called mowing the lawn and everyone should look this up this is what Israeli ministers refer to as ro..."

"homes right beyond that apartheid wall and those homes were stolen from them and they can't even enter that territory anymore and they know that on the other side of that wall there's life on the othe..."

"the world and pursuing education people dream about going out in the world and pursuing Economic Opportunity in Gazza your idea of opportunity is an opportunity to see the next year that has been the ..."

"mosques every University in Gaza has been demolished we're seeing Tik Tock videos of Israeli soldiers laughing and singing as they press a button and we see the demolition of every single University i..."

"who somehow made it out of the Rebel a day later if you're a child that's been pulled out of the Rebel what are you going to grow up with I mean what are you supposed to feel what are you supposed to ..."

"you they have almost no choice but to have hatred for Israel it's human I mean look any child that is under that type of Oppression is going to hate their oppressor I don't care who you are I don't ca..."

"about the present of Palestinian lives instead of talking about whether or not your state will be secure in the future talk to me about why you're killing children now 2third of the 30,000 civilians a..."

"end the occupation and so there has to be a solution that is beyond merely acts of kindness at the end of the day if you're occupying a people you have to remove that occupation a paride is not dealt ..."

"of my occupier and when my occupier feels like you know throwing me a few more crumbs it has to end there has to be a point now where the world says this is not sustainable it's not just about ending ..."

"have to ask ourselves why is it that Israel has violated over 63 United Nations resolutions has expanded its occupation has killed over 600 Palestinians before October 7th why is it that Israel cannot..."

"absolutely absolutely in America for you for other Palestinians other Muslims in your community what has all of this been like it feels like there's a uh a return to some of the days uh after 9/11 the..."

"abroad can you tell the story of this boy why Alpha he's a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was stabbed 26 times in his home in planfield Township Illinois it was found to be a hate crime motiv..."

"W ran up to the man calling him Uncle Joe because the land lord prior to that had been kind to them used to give wer toys wer had an infectious beautiful smile every picture you see that kid beautiful..."

"know just like any any mom you know she hasn't moved the thing his bike is still in the same place it was his toys are still in the same place she's left with this great void this great emptiness if t..."

"remember the next day it was right after the funeral looking at the front page of CNN and the story of wer was buried in the last in the last section and it it was right over all these meaningless ads..."

"are who we thought they were they went and they stabbed a synagogue president it turned out it wasn't a hate crime although it's an awful crime it turned out it wasn't a hate crime what de's an aftert..."

"been giving the talking points to the press to erase me but you feel sorry because wadir was killed and I think this is when we say that anti- Palestinian bigotry is an extension of islamophobia if a ..."

"times masks are falling masks are falling people that we thought were decent people somehow have found it in themselves to justify a genocide there is no shortage at this point of videos and again whe..."

"being there and and and I mean participating in his funeral it was it was anger I'm not used to that I'm not used to that you know I'm an Imam I Pastor to people I went to Christ Church and that was t..."

"years there is a deep geopolitical connection between the United States and that part of the world what is the role of us politicians in all of this you know James Baldwin uh wrote about how Israel wa..."

"unfortunately has rightfully lost all credibility it should remove itself uh from this because it is not an honest peace broker I think Americans are probably sick of us paying for Wars in general I t..."

"money that you just mentioned and bills and then there's rhetoric which you also criticized that he spoke about the beheaded babies and things of that nature so where has uh Joe Biden fallen short now..."

"real empathy um and I think that he is under great delusion and thinking that um the Muslim Community or people of conscience are going to forgive this are going to forget this come November you can't..."

"illusion that the other side promises us anything better in fact it it s it feels like Republicans have simply rushed to out rist the Democrats to outpace them in terms of talking about how they're go..."

"failed democracy then all the while again you know it always boggles my mind if you're from the America First crew what's America First about uh funling billions and billions and billions of dollars t..."

"are outraged that this has been been our American foreign policy all throughout you know uh Democratic and Republican administrations this is what we've been paying for this is what we've been excusin..."

"American Administration you know or the American president says an American Secretary of State says you know we're talking to them and we're making sure that that's not going to happen and if one of t..."

"now you spoke at the November 4th demonstration in Washington called the free Palestine March it had a lot of people several hundred thousand people there what do you remember from that experience wel..."

"mainstream media which was expected but what I also remember from the actual day of and from all of the pro Palestine rallies is that I have never seen a more multifaith more diverse group of people c..."

"over there and people from all backgrounds are standing up to it now what do you think about the protest on campus against Israel every protest I've been to has had the exact same tender has had the e..."

"cannot get the smell out of her has suffered all sorts of health issues as a result of being sprayed again people are not seeing the other side here people are not seeing what we've had to deal with a..."

"and academic settings um professors are losing their jobs students are having their faces put on trucks being doxed uh the Shady watch lists that get put out I'm on a few of them as well and I just do..."

"ongoing in the course of this discussion it's not an exaggeration to say that at least 30 40 people would have been killed just over the last few hours because we're averaging 135 to 150 a day so ever..."

"priority right now T I think we spoke last time about a year ago how is your view on um Benjamin Netanyahu evolve over time Benjamin Netanyahu has committed himself to the Eraser of Palestinian people..."

"anything but Benjamin Netanyahu he is is a narcissist he's a tyrant um he is despised uh around the world and uh I think even amongst Israelis uh I think there's a deatri for him I think the hostages ..."

"normal uh State uh those borders were drawn across occupied land and have been expanding into Palestinian territory and people have been thrown out of their homes systematically and transgressed upon ..."

"occupy people have a right to defend themselves the occupier is obligated to those that they occupy can you speak to this term occupation in Gaza because the people that say it is not an occupation sa..."

"uh always leads itself to unfortunately so uh I think that most reasonable people would say that the problem is not with uh Yemen Rebels attacking ships the problem is with Israel attacking innocent P..."

"against them at every level so if you don't solve not just the root of occupation but also the dehumanization that drives the occupation which is unfortunately so pervasive right now in the discourse ..."

"of Abraham but do you think something like that agreements of that nature of that scale could be made that include the Palestinian people and that would actually have make progress if they're honest t..."

"not the oppressed and so that was Malcolm's point and it's clear in his messaging uh throughout his religious growth because of course Malcolm did evolve uh as a person but Malcolm found it deeply hyp..."

"implications of America's foreign policy so Martin and Malcolm if you look at them in the capacity of what's happening right now where I would say you can find something that is deeply profound Jame c..."

"that's where the the function is important of this whereas those that are complicit in the oppression need to be liberated from their own oppression you know and liberated from what they're participat..."

"attacks you have to see the world their world through their eyes you can't try to see their world through your eyes if you live under occupation you're routinely harassed at Israeli checkpoints the oc..."

"of pain you're going to have sympathy to that group whether you agree with them or not I think that the question also has to be asked what about the Israeli public Israel holds all of the power in tha..."

"so anyone that says that they are going to support your plight whether you agree with their mission or their methods is going to resonate with that child that has grown up in those desperate circumsta..."

"what is determined Now by any uh international human rights organization even Israel human rights organization uh bet Islam and others to be apartheid a state of partied in a state of occupation and n..."

"the urgency of the world right now should be entirely focused on ending this atrocity that unfortunately the world has become so complacent with again prior to October 7th this status quo was not acce..."

"to still laugh and find Joy despite everything that's happened and so I think that the urgency right now just has to be towards ensuring that they have a life that they're not being anymore I was wond..."

"in that's the same bigotry that's driving this and I want you to think about it you know from that perspective How Deeply offensive that is when you have millions of Palestinians in diaspora where hav..."

"torment so uh this bigotry is not new um unfortunately its manifestation is ugly and um you know we have to push back on it whenever it shows itself no matter who it's being spoken about how difficult..."

"come back we don't want to go anywhere as a Palestinian people you know in a way that would remove us from our homes the Palestinian people are proud people yeah you've met a lot of them right when yo..."

"time you know I actually mentioned this in the first uh DC protest that I remember getting a notification a news notification um just prior to October with my name in it you know so I always get these..."

"wronged uh we are living here in the United States on Stolen lands that is drenched in the blood of the natives and that was built upon uh with the Blood Sweat and labor of enslaved Africans that were..."

"conditions why is Palestine a special place a holy land it's the land of prophets it is uh a land that holds deep significance obviously to uh Jews Christians and Muslims it's the land of Abraham peac..."

"Quran that we do not distinguish between the prophets all the prophets came with one message One mission uh there's a coherence in the Creed there's a beauty in the foundation of what would become the..."

"see them as being counter uh to each other uh nor do I see that any Prophet um betrayed the message that came before them I think they're all part of the same beautiful message that we have to be at H..."

"bigotry yeah one of the things since we last spoke I got to me a lot of Palestinian Christians including in West Bank and that was fascinating and those are beautiful people I I think people should wa..."

"religious one of the criticisms of Islam points to specific verses of the Quran and the criticism being that it is not a religion of Peace can you speak to that so objectively speaking if you were to ..."

"math and of course Muslims have sometimes times fallen short of Islamic standards in the past and in the present but if you look at the overall history of Islam and the history of the Muslim Community..."

"prophets that have walked in that place all the prophets that have worshiped in that place all of that makes it sacred right so it's not separated for Muslims from uh you know post Muhammad peace be u..."

"an engineering is there you know that that allows for people to have that type of Faith uh so people are opening the Quran for the first time people are asking questions about Islam and a way that sho..."

"takes 20 seconds man okay what's what's involved simple enough you you you you you testify to the one there's no pool there's no baptism like I I often joke with people I'm like all right we got the p..."

"that's the growth part the journey um you know once a person takes the testimony they then grow uh it's really interesting because we always have uh those people that convert to Islam like a week befo..."

"corner every Ramadan um the aggression against the Palestinian people seems to grow so we're usually dealing with you know last 10 nights of Ramadan and then the incursions on M AA really sour it um f..."

"surround both in in terms of messaging as well as Community uh the uh the pain of the moment with a prayer for Hope and healing not to put you on the spot but in your sermons in your private life what..."

"us you have been Fearless in walking through the fire what gives you strength psychologically to keep going to speak out but just also maintain an optimism and a hope for the future I don't believe th..."