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Watch North Texas Imam Oman Suleiman, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, visiting Syrian refugee camps on the Jordan-Syria border, and listen to him talk about the moral obligations and spiritual lessons he learned there. \u201cIt opened my eyes to the neglect of the Syrian people,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have an obligation to make things better. They are human beings, and they have a right to live in peace and security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey are human beings, and so they have a right to live in peace and security,\u201d says Imam Omar Suleiman, who has made several visits to the refugee camps on the Jordanian-Syrian border. \u201cAnd if we\u2019re not contributing to the betterment of their situation…are we really the moral standard for the world?\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":34418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-belief-and-practice","topics-culture-and-society","topics-humanitarian","faith-islam"],"yoast_head":"\nPerspective on Syrian Refugees: Imam Omar Suleiman | February 10, 2017 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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