Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith the great. So i call this the june knee damage Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. My experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The hightech industry is a classic example. If
Carla power, who talks about the misconceptions westerners have about islam. It is a topic she writes about in if the oceans work ink. From the Commonwealth Club of california, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Jonathan my mic is on. That is an auspicious start. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. We are online at commonwealthclub. Org. I am jonathan curiel, your moderator for todays program, cold bridging islam and the west. I want to introduce our esteemed speaker, carla power. Those of you who know carla know she is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is a journalist specializing in muslim societies and the author of if the oceans were ink an unlikely friendship and journey to the heart of koran, a result of spending a year with Sheikh Mohammed akram nadwi. It offers a look into the muslim world that is often ignored by our news media and explores the many complexities of one of the worlds most misunderstood r
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