and there were cases brought by for decades he is by the eeoc or doj. they are related to christian denomination, seventh day adventist cases involving accommodation one day a week of people who are working the sabbath. so if you work in that particular facility, and if you don't observe the sabbath you will work more saturdays and fridays than that person and again, that was upheld in the jurisprudence. i'm very proud of the work we're doing in this case and again it's part of a long line of cases brought by republican and democratic administrations alike. >> so let me move into one area we haven't touched on that i think is timely and controversial and perhaps still being debated within the administration. a number of states around the country are considering laws prohibiting the use of islamic law also known as shari'a. for example, oklahoma adopted a ballot initiative prohibiting courts from using international law or shari'a. we are all familiar with the way shari'a is interpreted in iran and saudi arabia. hardly a day goes by there isn't a report

claren thom thomas was a godfather -- >> at the eeoc. >> he would talk for hours about clarence thomas' background, starting a business. this shaped clint's politics. >> what about david macintosh? >> a lot of his mentors, i think, were peers. they were the fellow founders of the federalist society who had grown up in more inintellectually elite circumstances than he had. he, of course, rose quickly to his level. another mentor was richard enstein at the university of chicago -- epstein at the university of chicago that believed regulation is best of somebody else. transferring assets, whether it is welfare payments or a prerogative tax system takes away from somebody else and therefore that person should be compensated. >> what about ralph reid. ? >> he didn't really have a mentor. he looked toup grover norquest. when he was a college republican, he very much looked toup grover norquest and the chairman of the college republicans at the time. a guy by the name of jack abramov. a guy still very much active in town. he looked up to thefment but as far as an older mentor, he didn't reall

complaints comprise 25% of complaints received by the eeoc from 2008 to 2009. muslims comprise only 1% to 2% of the entire population. opposition to mosque construction is also on the rise and getting of wear. parents are more concerned than ever about their children. in one egregious case, a muslim high-school student in s.staten island was subject to various towns, punched in the groin, and spit on. taunts, punched in the groin, and spit on. one beatty was so severe that his mother took him to the doctor. he had blood in his urine and suffered memory loss. this is one vial example of how bigotry is playing out across america today. parents worry -- will much of the next? and there were about the future. will america be hospitable to minority faiths? will it's better age prevail? or will the value of the freedom and respect be a relic of the past? bigotry has been simmering and growing since the tragic events of september 11. it was a terrorist attack that was an attack on all americans, muslims included. in the last several months, anti-muslim rhetoric has re

media landscape has changed, and companies no longer have to go through quite that process, but the eeoc is the reason that women's voices started to appear in be newsrooms and on television, and women writers and directors and reporters and journalists started to get jobs. yes, it was difficult because they usually hired one, and that was the quota. it was hard to find allies, it was hard to find mentors. as a matter of fact, it was hard to find a women's room. my first job at nbc news i had to leave my high heels outside the door so the men would know there was a woman inside. [laughter] so much has changed, but we have regulatory action to think -- to thank for what was a beginning. so maybe it's time that we look at the models that the scandinavian countries have set for us, the success of norway with its 40% representation of women on boards and the success of sweden with its mandated family leave. we need to find solutions to work life balance to the access women have to full empowerment and the top jobs, to salaries and all the other issues we've discussed. we need to have those a