with this government in egypt saying this is a major player in the middle east and in some way that we need to work with some ways when i was in the senate i worked a lot with hosni mubarak and president mubarak had a lot of problems and he did a lot of things that were highly questionable but you re still saying ok then what s the alternative and is it the muslim brotherhood yes that s the alternative well i don t think that s the right way to go. in january secretary of state colin powell was in cairo he too was heaping praise on this the r.c.c. he said he s really taken to heart the ideal of religious freedom and he s done so with great power and great courage and he is to be lauded for that. the facts are rather different when it comes to religious freedom in egypt the egyptian christians who are the largest no community really in the live in a minefield of of legal and social to. going to race you know and i mean maybe you
a papal visit this is one that i went to mass there in that country my biggest problem getting the mass was the traffic i wasn t blocked from going there that s not true in a number of islamic countries where i have visited and you don t have the degree of ability to move around they are not a perfect nation and they have many things they need to improve upon but i m just redo on religious freedom the government chooses and vets odium ups issues weekly guidance for the friday prayers and even informal islamic teaching has to be approved by the government is that religious freedom and i would give you guys i didn t put a gold star said on this and once i did why don t you compare him to what the saudis do now what do you think about i m going to sally s mother let s talk about the sound of this that is a bit late well no but it was you know about things how discouraging what must well what did you ever think about how do you ever improve a situation. do you just say we re going to stand
questions about immigration there s a lot of dispute and debate about u.s. immigration policy a legitimate discussion to have but what i m talking about is a fundamental right to religious freedom to where there really isn t i don t think that much dispute that individuals in the united states are all entitled to this fundamental right to practice their faith or no faith at all freelance and various charities are up in arms by things which which donald trump has said. we were told yesterday on or about jews the president s statement last month to them that if you vote for a democrat you re being disloyal to jewish people you re being very disloyal to israel since when is it the business of a political leader to comment on the political views of a particular religion because the outrage yeah yeah my position and work is invest your religious freedom and that s what i comment on that s the line that i m in and that s what i m going to come on on on your program really until you know i in
was condemned widely by religious groups including the jewish community the policy of barring people from muslim majority countries was the american jewish world service code it s nothing less than a xenophobia muslim in the intent of which has been made clear by president chum through multiple anti muslim statements over several is it that it doesn t help your cause to be promoting international religious freedom when you get responses like that does it. i don t i don t care for those responses but i also would stand for all of those people s rights to save those and do it those things that they do and i would stand for their rights to practice religious freedom the united states i think you are conflating 2 separate issues i think you re bringing in my opinion of what you re putting forward here an immigration issue which there are. anshul
ones that also on her 1st amendment rights of free speech and of assembly you can also say there s a couple other correlations on this i appreciate the question there are a couple correlations that i think you d be interested in one is you re going to see less terrorism if you have more religious freedom and there is a factual basis for that as there are for these others and you re going to find more economic growth if you get more religious freedom this is that s why we talk about this in the sort of foundational sense in july you looked at the united arab emirates which you singled out as being one of the good countries they hosted you said the 1st of a papal visit on the arabian peninsula and they ve been stepping up and doing a lot more so you gave just cold stuff for them this is a state which truly detains and forcibly disappears individuals who criticize the authorities you made no mention of that when you were giving them the goats the duty i didn t have those additional things