at some point, it began to dinah sat there is something we need to know and that we ought to pay attention's do it one more time. it was shortly after september 11, i was invited by bill clinton to nyu to a panel that he had organized. americans were in shock. people in new york had a lot of questions that they wanted answered. we recognize the importance of doing that and what we did was begin to talk about muslim americans. what i did before i went to the session is i called a lot of friends to get some anecdotes and poured over my mind in the 30 years i have been doing this work. i have a doctorate in islamic studies. i have organized arab-americans for as long as i can remember. i have been polling arab- americans and american muslims prayed putting it all together, i pulled some stories about a young woman who was a premed student, an idealist. she told me one day, i am not going to be like my father. i want to practice my religion by opening a clinic for the portrait that is how i would practice my faith. then there was a guy i knew in cincinnati reminded me so much of my father, he