A well spoken and nice man. I think he adds a lot of value to the world, but I have trouble with various parts of what I've heard in the first bits of the conversation:<br><br>First, he classically invokes "muh crusades", which is a typical line to use to brow-beat ignorant people into thinking the crusades were anywhere near as bad as the centuries following Mohammad's death in 632 (first crusade happened in 1059). There were around 11 crusades, 2 of which were major. But there were many hundreds of wars and skirmishes that lead Muslims to conquer all of Persia, the Arabian peninsula, all of North Africa, much of southern Europe (Europe was later re-conquered), and whatever bloodbath happened in India.<br><br><br>Second, when he mentions the Christchurch shooter, he failed to mention the manifesto was written in such a way that anybody can grab lines of text from it and blame whoever they want. The guy wrote a whole bunch of different things in it to stir up as much drama and hate as possible.<br><br>I don't want wars. I don't want violence against Muslims (or anyone). And obviously what the shooter did was terrible. But I will say that I think this Omar guy knows what I'm writing and chooses not to say it to persuade opinion.<br><br>I do wish we could have asked him what the penalties for being gay or an apostate are within his ideal Muslim community would be.,(reply>), *✍️✍️✍️🔝<br>     ..Let's communicate.. <br>                 🗨️🗨️🗨️⤴️✍️✍️*