accidental muslims because ultimately many of us are of a certain religion of the accident of birth. lee and not alone that way but that happened to many americans and it forces you to grapple with the idea to be muslim. because we were on trial. every pundit was the expert and we were told you needed to be liberated from the violence of islam that was apparent to the theology. of what was coming to me. as the mother of a toddler

toddler, to children, my daughter was starting kindergarten i've read about the future of my children as american muslims. if that is just a label because of ancestral loyalty then why put them through that challenge? hence the beginning of this journey. >> host: terrorist blew up to beautiful debate -- buildings inner-city, our state, our country. what is the impact on a person like you who lives a comfortable life in manhattan? what do you think about those people or the audience that is listening whoever gets to hear from people like you but what do you think of the terrorist and how they affected your life? >> guest: first and

foremost, they affected the life of the people they took away so savagely that they. from my own perspective personally coming at it from a muslim view of the morning that we were all joint together is compounded by another challenge by virtue of calling our souls muslim we were guilty by association. as a mother as you grapple with trying to make sense of battle for two very innocent children. >> host: your son? >> guest: she was three and my daughter was just beginning kindergarten. i remember sadly her first day at school was the first

official day of kindergarten on 11 i write about this that i packed a miniature quran in her backpack as a talisman. >> host: like the christians carrying a cross. >> guest: a big oversized backpack with the tiny quran as i watched the images of that day, thinking the same quran pact so lovingly was used to wreak havoc and hate and destruction. the juxtaposition of those two realities was in mind numbing and confusing at a very existential level and parenting level. the journey for me has been

of learning and my religion to understand the issues to empower my children. we can teach them to disassociate or disengage. also with the jewish experience you try to develop your identity but the stereotype i am not quite muslim. >> i am not changing names right now. because people shy away from celebrating or doing ramadan in the office. people are closing up. it is it a difficult journey but one that i hope, i do not know if i made the right choice. i think that i have. but by taking the children along on this journey to

incest, and not insist ultimately the choice is theirs but slowly they have chosen to self identify as muslims. i hope by doing that they can hold america accountable to a higher ideal as they can hold is, higher that they are living embodiment of what it means to be truly american and muslim to be agents of change for a better world. >> if this deal is completed it puts comcast at the center of every major media policy debates we will have. i don't think the fcc should

they should block.it is why we have the antitrust laws to prevent these deals and for most americans this seems unthinkable that it has gotten this far. it says a lot but for me there is nothing that is good enough to let it go through. >> transactions are frequently used to shape markets. there are a lot of conditions that could be placed on the largest service provider, low-cost offering, net neutrality provider, or the initiatives to upgrade internet access 99 percent of american schools with the whole host that is similar to conditions that comcast agreed three years ago when it bought nbc universal so i could see it seriously considered but with a lot of conditions.

>> most people don't understand how it works. a lot of people write books then spend the next two years to get somebody publish their book. i have not experienced that. of people say how do you get a book published? [laughter] but i finally felt that i don't write books for the purpose to write books but the first four books actually i did with a co-writer. basically i would dictate to

a tape recorder then send them the tapes then they would transcribe. the last book i did myself with my wife. she did a lot of the research and helped with the editing. of course, she is quick 2.0 that is the one that hit "the new york times" best sellers list. [laughter] but i very much enjoy working with my wife. fortunately it does tend to come pretty easily. like speaking. i don't have a written text. i just go up there and survey the situation depending on the audience we have. i have a few points to make

sure what i make that i have written on my card. i just aren't speaking. i write to the same way. i have a chapter title i will write down some bluepoints what i want to say. then they start dictating. . .