dean obeidallah uses political satire and humor to fight racism. but for this arab american from new jersey, fighting stereotypes is not just part of his act. i spoke with him on skype. fernando: it seems somewhat of a preposterous concept that muslims have to specifically speak up against isis. as if anybody is responsible for isis except isis itself. what do you feel in terms of the generalized pressure in the media to single out muslims? not necessarily accusing muslims of anything, but it seems like there is a broad brush being used here. >> well, there is. and the narrative is -- muslims, we don' t hear you denouncing terrorism. we hear that all the time. and that somehow means we' re complicit in it. first, there' s a bigger question of why should i have to denounce someone i have no connection to. isis are not doing things that are based on my faith as a muslim. accordance to a political agenda to take land and to take control. that' s exactly why they are fighting al qaeda. if it was really about some true form of islam that isis and al qae

dean obeidallah uses political satire and humor to fight racism. but for this arab american from new jersey, fighting stereotypes is not just part of his act. i spoke with him on skype. fernando: it seems somewhat of a preposterous concept that muslims have to specifically speak up against isis. as if anybody is responsible for isis except isis itself. what do you feel in terms of the generalized pressure in the media to single out muslims? not necessarily accusing muslims of anything, but it seems like there is a broad brush being used here. >> well, there is. and the narrative is -- muslims, we don' t hear you denouncing terrorism. we hear that all the time. and that somehow means we' re complicit in it. first, there' s a bigger question of why should i have to denounce someone i have no connection to. isis are not doing things that are based on my faith as a accordance to a political agenda to take land and to take control. that' s exactly why they are fighting al qaeda. if it was really about some true form of islam that isis and al qaeda subsc

he will also be sitting down with dean obeidallah, an arab american comic who uses humor to challenge stereotypes of muslims. that is all tonight on "matter of fact" right here on kcci at 6:30. and on kcci's close up we'll sit down with presidential candidate rick santorum. we'll discuss the recent shooting in california and his plan to defeat terrorism. that is coming up sunday at 10:30 right after "face the nation." you are having to scrape your windows out there but it sounds like today is going to be just gorgeous. frank: these wake-up temperatures looking pretty good. ames at 32. 35 here in des moines. we should be about 37 degrees for our afternoon high temperatures so when we are waking up to that, we are doing well. little blustery out of the south , and eventually the southwest as the system pulse through. -- pulls through. look at these temperatures. 48 by noon. 52 our high temperature at 3:00. notice how i put in a few more clouds as we head throughout the afternoon and evening. that is in advance of a system that will be pulling through. the average temperature this time o

east and europe, and so the security loopholes firsthand in places like the istanbul airport, a dean obeidallahr foreign fighters come and throughout western europe. we found widespread failures. many countries were not screening travelers against terrorist watch list. they were not checking passports for fraud. and didn't have access to the intelligence they needed to stop. our task force issued over 50 recommendations for fixing these vulnerabilities in america and overseas. and today i'm pleased to announce we are turning these recommendations into law. we are starting with a bill this week to tighten the visa waiver program, which allows travelers from 38 countries to come to the united states 490 days without getting a visa. -- 90 days. think about that. the majority of paris attackers at western passports. with those western passports they could get into the united states without a visa. this bill has grown bipartisan support on the gleeful address the problem identified. this bill will also force high-risk individuals who have been into terrorist hotspots to go through a more rigorous sc

dean obeidallah uses political satire and humor to fight racism. but for this arab american from new jersey, fighting stereotypes is not just part of his act.