The Worst of Omar Suleiman

07/31/2018

Over the past few weeks, amid the anger over the question of illegal immigration, asylum seekers and, in particular, the separation of children from their parents, a number of American Muslim organizations with links to extremism have joined the conversation. Islamists, it appears, have been keen to exploit an important national conversation.None has been more active than Omar Suleiman, a prominent American Salafi Muslim cleric, founder of the Yaqeen Institute and an instructor at the Al Maghrib Institute. This Muslim cleric decries separation of children from parents at the southern border while coming out in support of honour killing. What is it then?