In one of the most peaceful gatherings of protesters since the March 18 shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark by police officers in south Sacramento, a visiting Muslim scholar rallied Sacramento’s interfaith community for the long haul Wednesday night.
Sheikh Omar Suleiman, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, was the keynote speaker at a town hall meeting at the Salam Islamic Center. The event was co-sponsored by CAIR-SV, Sacramento NAACP, Sacramento Area Congregations Together and a coalition of 10 mosques from throughout the Sacramento region.
Suleiman is scheduled to participate in Thursday’s memorial service for Clark, who had converted to Islam. During the meeting, he and a panel of local faith and community leaders urged an audience of more than 200 people not to let their fervor for justice die, but to fight against what they described as systemic injustice.
Too often, Suleiman said, people don’t mobilize because they don’t recognize that when one minority group is targeted, all are affected
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