Has is celebrating our shared humanity. Humanity thated will help us overcome the ideology of hate. Whether that hate is manifest in the form of International Terrorism or in the form of xenophobia and hate crimes domestically. We need to have a united front. People have been asking us since in bernadino, first they asked what is it in your religion that causes people to do things like what happened in San Bernardino . Religion iss our telling us to do exactly the opposite. Our religion is about mercy and compassion and justice. Our religion is about if you apparently they are not reading the same text that we are reading. Or it is not being processed. The nemesis to terrorism. The antidote to terrorism. We can empower mainstream communities to overcome and prevail the ideology. Out . To go toing muslim is obviously cannot make this problem disappear. What is required is civic engagement. We demonstrate our work to the american public. We the example in the standardbearer of our religi
Good afternoon everyone. Im happy to assert of the council for over a decade. We are happy to take off our final and convention 15 session. We come here to culminate with this session before we have our banquet in a few hours. Before we begin this session, i would like to introduce the cofounder and president who will kickoff the unconvention. In the name of god most gracious and merciful. Thank you for joining us. I hope you plan on staying with us for the banquet tonight. It is our 15th annual. We started these events shortly go. But we are growing. You are going to see tonight hopefully how the impact has become a National Voice on some of these issues. Tonight in today this convention has the theme of celebrating our shared humanity. What a timely topic, because it is our shared humanity that will help us overcome the ideology of hate. Whether that hate is manifest in the form of International Terrorism or in the form of xenophobia and hate crimes domestically. We need to have a un
One is a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish. [laughter] 33 years. 35 trips to afghanistan and iraq. Months and weeks serving as active duty in places like bagram, where so many of these evil people are kept. So much time he spent with the men and women who are serving over the holidays. Every christmas and the fourth of july. The times demand leadership. I do not know of anyone who is more qualified to lead this country and the significant challenges we are facing today. I have seen the polls. Lindsey has seen the polls. We are asking you to have a look at who was most qualified to lead this nation. There are direct threats and already attacks against the United States of america. I believe in Lindsey Graham. I think you will too. I am also here to translate his comments into english. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] sen. Graham lets see if we can find something we all agree on. John mccain is an american hero, by any definition. [applause] i have actually been to iraq
Coverage. And then up at issue is not meant to debate. After that, a conversation about Race Relations in america. Three days after the muslim three days after the san shootings, the Muslim Public Affairs council held its annual convention in long beach, california. This runs a one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon everyone. Im am Edina Lekovic and happy to have served the council for over a decade. We are happy to take off our final and convention 15 session. We come here to culminate with this session before we have our banquet in a few hours. Before we begin this session, i would like to introduce the cofounder and president who will kickoff the unconvention. In the name of god most gracious and merciful. Thank you for joining us. I hope you plan on staying with us for the banquet tonight. It is our 15th annual. We started these events shortly go. But we are growing. You are going to see tonight hopefully how the mpac has become a National Voice on some of these issues. Tonight in
I am proud to be here today with you. Commoncoming here to eight with the session before our annual banquet in a few hours. Thank you all for being here with us. I would like to introduce the cofounder and president to kickoff the Unconventional Convention and banquet for the day. [applause] in the name of god most gracious and merciful. Thank you for joining us. I hope you plan on staying with us for the banquet tonight. It is our 15th annual. We started these events shortly go. But we are growing. Will see tonight hopefully how the impact has become a National Voice on some of these issues. Tonight in today this convention has is celebrating our shared humanity. And what a timely topic. Because, it is our shared humanity that will help us overcome the ideology of hate. Whether that hate is manifest in the form of International Terrorism or in the form of xenophobia and hate crimes domestically. We need to have a united front. Along both lines. And people have been asking us since the