And to prevent the future generation of u. S. Leaders from being duped into the idea that muslims are actually a peaceful group when in fact he was arguing they are kind of a trojan horse. Likewise on the right here youll see Frank Gaffney from the center for security policy, one of the people who later became instrumental in the socalled antisharia movement and the various attempts to create laws that would prevent the use of sharia law in the United States. And he famously accused the white house of being infiltrated by extremists, among them Grover Norquist who had a very weak ties to a hedge fund that funds many of the largest Muslim American organizations in the country. And so why didnt main stream muslim organizations get in the media . I argue in my book it is because of the emotional message. These were visceral, fearful, angry, condemnations of muslims and Muslim Americans in particular that really alerted a public that had very little idea again what islam was, who muslims w
Thank you for taking such a challenging topic and doing it with such depth. I know we will be following your writings in your remarks for a long time. On behalf of all the members on americancouncil jewish committee, i would like to present you with the official world of fellows counsel thank you so much. Wear it proudly. The only thing i know about the Jewish Community in texas is from the literary productions friedman. Ky [laughter] which i read when i was going to university at harvard, and which i have to say, i found completely mind blowing and extremely funny, but im assuming is not uptodate so im willing to be informed. Thank you, thank you. [applause] and that me remind everyone, if you are not yet registered for our program next tuesday cnn nationalrgen, security reporter and analyst, please do so. Have a great afternoon. Arehis week on cspan we featuring programs on the increase of drug abuse in america as the situation of the Current Supreme Court vacancy. Today at 7 00 p. M
Another busy news morning. Well go live to brussels in just a moment where there is new information about the suspects, their connection to the attacks in paris, and how one of them was caught and then let go. President obama and Hillary Clinton take the opportunity to blast candidate ted cruz for his comments about patrolling muslim neighborhoods as ted cruz relishes being attacked by obama and clinton. And joe has a strong new column in the Washington Post about that. Well read part of that for you. Speaker of the house paul ryan laments the ugly state of politics in a passionate speech yesterd yesterday, then as if he was handing exhibit a, donald trump and ted cruz engage in a twitter battle over their wives. And a new poll this morning shows a majority of republican primary voters are not into the idea of a contested convention. Thats really interesting. The polling on this president ial election in terms of where people are at signal that we are headed toward a really ugly battle
Re france put on the streets 10,000 troops, and then over the weekend that was a friday, friday the 13th of november. They launched airstrikes in syria. There was a quick response. In belgium, two ministers have offered their resignation. In mourning. S there is question about what they can do to improve the security physician. There is a lot of discussion about how the European Union can share intelligence, but so far there is not a lot of positive response to that. Headlines,u also in the pentagon is under a civilian hiring freeze the freeze is related to the congressional order to reduce the u. S. Is moving forward to build up five bases in the philippines. They are kenyan monitoring the nearby contested south china sea. The governor must approve a plan that would bring a difficult supply for Service Members today cap u. S. Official said she believes there is no reason to reform the Current System. The under secretary of state for arms control and International Security emphasized t
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