I dont think we should have to choose between foreign subjects and domestic subjects. If you look at your programs, theres an amazing range of panels. I want you cant. So many issues we can cover, should cover. Have the expertise within our community to cover. I just dont buy this false choice that so many in our communities, in the uk, in europe and north america which is, weve got to have this debate about gaza and nothing else or about iraq and nothing else. Weve got to go in the media, only talk about isis and terrorism and take it from me. Im a journalist who happens to be muslim. When i started out, the only thing people wanted to talk to me about were these issues. Not just domestic versus foreign but islam nick general. I wrote a biography of the leader of the opposition, ed millband. Why did you write a book about him . Hes not going to be prime minister. Well, well see. The first book was not going to be a book about islam because its so easy to get pigeon holed. I wrote this
Of questions that feel a little complementary to me. One may even partially answer the other. First one is how do you balance religious freedom against islams desire to take over the world . The second one is, given your description of what islam is and does, how can it be considered a religion . Thats a very good question. Number one, i think we should define in america what a religion should be. And ill tell you what my definition will be. A religion will be given the respect in america to be practiced only if it respects human basic human rights. [ applause ] any religion any religion we have to define religion. So if we define religion as a set of values and morals to live by, if a religion condemns those to leave it to death, its right to be practiced in america will be null and void. [ applause ] and thats the only way we can either reform islam, we have to get rid of that and we can judge islam by the way muslims practiced in america. By the way. We have to judge islam by how it
Choose between foreign subjects and domestic subjects. If you look at your programs, theres an amazing range of panels. I want you cant. So many issues we can cover, should cover. Have the expertise within our community to cover. I just dont buy this false choice that so many in our communities, in the uk, in europe and north america which is, weve got to have this debate about gaza and nothing else or about iraq and nothing else. Weve got to go in the media, only talk about isis and terrorism and take it from me. Im a journalist who happens to be muslim. When i started out, the only thing people wanted to talk to me about were these issues. Not just domestic versus foreign but islam nick general. I wrote a biography of the leader of the opposition, ed millband. Why did you write a book about him . Hes not going to be prime minister. Well, well see. The first book was not going to be a book about islam because its so easy to get pigeon holed. I wrote this column in George Galloway was
Florida and the boat lift of 1980. The first 20 days, discuss how the state of florida handled the arrival of over 30,000 cuban refugees in key west in less than a month. The authors discussed the socalled mary aletos the first wave of over 120,000 cuban immigrants in 1980 and the impact theyd had on the political and social culture in florida. This session from the bob graeme center of Public Service from the university of florida is about an hour. Welcome to the bob graham center. Thanks for being here this evening. Youve got a very Interesting Program for you on mare yall and we have three great fine scholars and speakers here this evening with us. I want to thank our partners for the collaboration with us on this event tonight. Im the director of the bob graham center. And our speakers this evening are kathleen. Their book is entitled florida and the poet lift of 1980. And they will discuss the political, legal, and administrative response to the crisis and recount how local and st
Hope that other participants in the dialogue will as well, but it will be a challenge for us to make sure folks are getting Accurate Information and really being educated about this choice. Very good. Thank you. Lets go on to Public Comment. This is on these three items. I dont have any cards before me. We will do three minutes per person. Good afternoon commissioners. Eric brooks representing San Francisco green party and the local Grassroots Organization our city. Hopefully you have read the email, all of you that advocates sent. There are concerns about okaying this very kind of light framework today that doesnt have a lot of detail in it. I want to start out to get to those concerns about talking about what commissioner torres raised in the code of conduct with pg e. We saw during the 2010 prop 16 attack on the Clean Energy Programs and Community Choice in california that it didnt matter that pg e didnt use rate payer funds they were able to argue that entire 46 million plus campai