Tareq Mohammed Al-Suwaidan (Arabic: طارق محمد السويدان, September 15, 1953)[1] is a Kuwaiti Islamic author and speaker, and businessman.

He has been banned from entry to the United States and Belgium, owing to comments he has made about Jews and Israel in sermons.

He graduated from high school, and received a Bachelor of Science in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Penn State University in 1975.

[8] Al-Suwaidan was formerly the general manager of Al-Resalah Satellite TV, the brainchild of Saudi businessman Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

[citation needed] In August 2013, Prince Talal fired Suwaidan for his role as the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait.

[9] Prince Talal wrote on his Twitter account that he sacked Tarek Al-Suwaidan "for admitting he belongs to the Brotherhood movement.

"[10] In a letter to Al-Suwaidan, Prince Al Waleed wrote that there was no place for a Muslim Brotherhood member on the channel.

He said that slavery in Islam was eradicated by liberals only and not by the Islamists, and that "a human being is free in his movements and where he wants to belong, and convictions are what move people, and not force.

"[25] Al-Suwaidan is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.

"Even if a civilization is ready to crumble – like the West, with all the characteristics of deterioration of past fallen empires – it will not fall until we, the Muslims, strive to give it that last push, the last straw that will break the camel's back.

[34] In a sermon to Hamas which was later posted on the internet on 14 July 2014, Al-Suwaidan said Israel was "a deviant country...[that] is destined to be eradicated in its entirety," also saying that "We do not demand a ceasefire.

"[35] In November 2014, Al-Suwaidan was banned by the Belgium government from attending a Muslim Fair in Brussels on the basis of the comments made in this sermon.

On his Twitter account, Al-Suwaidan wrote, "Under pressure from the Zionist Lobby, the Belgium government decided to prevent me from entering the country despite holding a valid visa.

[36] The Belgium government said that it had decided to prevent Al-Suwaidan from visiting Brussels, because of his "anti-Semitic" remarks in the past.

"[37] After his ban in Belgium, he stated "I am glad that I disturbed the Zionists to this extent, and I call on everyone, especially scholars and preachers, to raise their voice against Zionism and the barbaric criminal practices of Israel.

This diversity is what is required, so there is no problem during the integration process to adopt the secondary features of identity, but with retaining the core elements.

I hope that a group of hackers will get together, and will wage resistance over the Internet, targeting Israeli and Zionist sites and destroying them electronically.”[40] In November 2012 a UAE police official said that suspects arrested in UAE had met with Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood members who are the ‘mentors of other groups’.

"[42] In 2020, Saudi government brought a person to the courtroom accusing him of acquiring a book on the history of Palestine by Al-Suwaidan.