. >> good evening my name is khalifed ramadan. my and a half and i own sunrise deli at 54 2nd street. i signed and allowed expresso subito and gary and his employees to use our restroom. on the overhead, the location, our location is here. his truck is proposed at 84 2nd street. the reason i signed allowing him to use our restroom facility, we support small businesses, all small businesses no matter the shape or the size. and i don't think starbucks really needs our help. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening my name is robin gross. i am an event planner and i'm in and out of downtown all the time. one of the reasons this is of interest to me is that as we know, the lines in the coffee shops as was spoken before are quite long. one of the issues that i wanted to bring up. that my understanding is that the hours of operation for expresso subito is from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on two locations and varying between the 2nd street location and the other location. so i do understand the issue of pa

ramadan stated that he was able to sign the letter on behalf of this coffee truck to use the restroom. i am wondering if the lease that he has with the owner of the building allows him to do so. i doubt it, but i don't know. bonnie, which represents one of the building owners in that area had stated that this whole 2nd street is going to be under construction and there is go to be no room. there is going to be four parking spaces. of all the people that support mr. goldstein, i wonder if they own restaurants. they are accountants, they are bankruptcy attorneys. i would like to know if they owned a restaurant if they would allow mr. goldstein to park the truck in front of the restaurant? i'm sure he is a very nice man. it's not credentials. it's about underserved areas. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> pat patricia voy. no one, many of those who spoke in support do not live in san francisco. we try to get the deliveris in the city before the stores open. where are those delivery trucks going to go? no. 3, is to me, because of the underserved issue on this, the legality is that they ar

. >> good evening my name is khalifed ramadan. my and a half and i own sunrise deli at 54 2nd street. i signed and allowed expresso subito and gary and his employees to use our restroom. on the overhead, the location, our location is h

alawites typically don't fast during ramadan and prayers are conducted privately, or in small groups, and not in mosques. they've not always been recognized or accepted as muslim, especially among the sunni majority and at times during the ottoman period, they were put to death as infidels. alawites have long lived in this region that straddles the borders of modern day turkey and syria, minorities in both nations. but their imprint in syria has been huge since the 1960s after the rise of a military officer named hafez al assad. he spawned an alawite military and security elite that his son, the current leader, inherited. even though both assads discourage sectarianism, syria's conflict is increasingly seen in such terms- an alawite-dominated military against a majority sunni opposition. turkey's government has made no secret of its support of the opposition, offering not just refuge to civilians but apparently in-and-out privileges to opposition fighters. >> people on the turkish side received us very well, they really helped us. i go to syria for 15 to 20 days to fight, come here fo

so this is actually ramadan 2010. it's august of that year, so i'm waking up at around 4 a.m., and i'm having my last meal before doing my prayers that begin the time of fasting. and it's at that point that i like to, as muslims do, to raze more from the quran or realize from rumi or just additional time of centering and meditation. muslims believe god listens extra closely during those dawn hours. but instead if people remember what was happening in august of 2010, it was the crazy discourse we were having around cordoba house or the ground zero mosque. so i'm not reading rumi, i'm not reading the can quran, i'm literally on right-wing hate web site after right-wing hate web site trying to anticipate the storyline of the day because every day there are new attacks on the founders of cordoba house. and there's new word about this being a terror command center, etc., etc. these are people that i've known for many years, people who i admire who have spoken of building an institution supported by the muslim community tha

me was 40% of their patients are from the west bank and are arab, and they make a new schedule for ramadan every year so everybody gets to eat at the right time, has the right food. she went and took, learned arabic because people coming in for treatment were told terrible things about israel that they would be put in danger or abused, and she learned arabic to comfort the parte. they have the only io al sis unit in the country for awhile, and they drove a shuttle, picked the people up for free, brought them in, and they were treated. the whole atmosphere was to make everyone not only comfortable, but able to observe their religious obligations, so the ultra orthodox were making sure there was rom dan food served at a time, but it was the effort they went through, and the effort she went to and her concern she could sit and talk to people and comfort and encourage them that they were perfectly safe. that is really typical, and, in fact, there's many stories of people that have come in for treatment and have had their mind changed by the way they were treatedded in israeli hospitals, not ju

in 2011 the department of justice issued indictments to ramadan and mohamed sharif homadi two ref iraqirefugees living in kentucky. since the indictment was issued, both men pleaded guilty to all counts. the department of justice, specifically the investigations of the joint terrorism task force, should be applauded for their efforts in thwarting this potential terrorist activity. unfortunately, the joint terrorism task force was not the first entity that had information on one of these convicted terrorists. in 2005 one man's fingerprint was found on a roadside bomb in iraq. this informs was in a department of defense database that was not checked during his background investigation when he applied to the refugee admissions program. this illustrates that we still have failed to close the remaining information-sharing gaps that continue to persist since the september 11th terrorist takes. attacks. i look forward to hearing today from the witnesses on how measures to close gaps in the refugee admission process are being put in place. in addition, separate and apart from the refugee resett