as the holy koran tells us, the conscious of god and speak always the truth. [applause] that is what i will try to do today, to speak the truth as best i can. humbled by the test before us and firm in my belief that the interest we share as human beings gar for more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. i am a christian but my father came from a kenyan family that includes generations of muslims. essay boy i spent several years in indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and that the fall of tusk. as a young man, i worked in chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in the muslim faith. as a student of history, i also know civilizations debt to al-islam. it was islam that places like al-azhar that carried the light of learning druze so many centuries, paving the way for europe's rhenus sans and enlightenment. it was innovation and muslim communities. [applause] it was innovation and muslim communities that developed the order of algebra, are magnetic compass and

people were turned into the quotations from the koran. people like the reference to issa, the local word for it chooses, and the muslim word for moses. they like the fact that everyone has a role. host: cairo is a huge and bustling city -- how much of it is consumed with the presidential visit? guest: you know, i will give you the ratios. about one-third of the people stayed inside to watch the speech atand about two-thirds stayed outside playing backgammon and dominoes and smoking the local water pipe. the people interested in politics are very interested, but a lot of people are yawning. but it did get a lot of attention here. host: when you had the opportunity to converse with either officials or the citizenry, what is the anticipation of a speech like this can or cannot achieve? guest: people will be watching the next step. the like the rhetoric and the idea, the sort of do over nature of this. egyptians and arabs generally like the idea of america and americans, but the relationship has been very sour. i like the idea of resetting th

the holy koran tells us that old mankind, we have created you, male and female. and we have made you into nations and tribes. that you may know one another. the talmud tells us the whole of the torah is for the purpose of promoting peace. the holy bible tells us, blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called sons of god. [applause] the people of the world can live together in peace. we know that is god's vision. now that must be our work here on earth. thank you. and may god's peace be upon you. thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] >> after the president's speech, we spoke to a washington post reporter who was in cairo. >> let's find out what some local reaction is, howard schneider is with us, you are in a coffee house. >> yeah, i am in a neighborhood that's in a fun-festive downtown neighborhood. we have been in the coffee shop as people have gathered. >> what are you seeing? >> you know, it was interesting, people sort of filtered in. and the core group that were interested in this sat here for hours, many hours watching the

the holy koran says whoever has killed the innocent has essentially killed all of mankind. [applause] whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. [applause] a the enduring faith of over 1 billion people is so much bigger than the nearest -- narrow hatred of a few. islam is not part of the problem combating violent extremism, it is an important part of promoting peace. we also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in afghanistan and pakistan. that is why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with pakistanis to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses, and hundreds of millions to help those who have been displaced. that is why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend on. let me also address the issue of iraq. unlike afghanistan, iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. although i believe that the iraqi people are better off without the tyranny of saddam hu

the first country in human history to be governed by shari'a law, by the laws of the koran. now, on that 30th anniversary, iran marked that time, israel had a change of network on the day before. benjamin netten -- nettan yahue was sworn in. i had the privilege for working for him back in the year 2000. i announced i am a failed political consultant. i was on his comeback team in the year 2000. now, do the math. it took nine years for him to come back and when i was with him last year, i noticed he didn't ask me to come back and help him. [laughter] >> so that's why he won. but he faces an extraordinary challenge and i don't envy the role that he has now. his first interview that he gave as prime minister was to the atlantic magazine, an "american" magazine they put up on their website right away. the headline was this, he said to obama, stop iran or i will. [applause] >> he warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of apocalyptic messianic culture leaders. what did he mean? why did he say this? he said it because the current leaders of iran means that

i do not believe that the koran once the death of israel, the other side of abraham's child. i'm from atlanta, in a microcosm of the world. many people here -- we go to a market and seek people from all around the world and get along quite perfectly choosing our produce. what i am hoping and praying is that these protesters are standing up, not embarrassing themselves by bloomberg jewish people for everything which is seems some in america -- but not blaming jewish people -- but it seems some of america do that. some americans think that jewish people have become superhuman and taken over the universe which is insane. i hope that it brings us together as brothers and children where we are all looked at as children of god who believe in a creator. guest: thank you. the interesting thing about these demonstrations is that they are democratic and universal. both secular and religious people from different beliefs, christians, jewish, bahai's, as well as muslims have been oppressed by this region. when religion is an ideological tool for the state it does not represent the variou

he's not a koran and so i went and wrote the letter. i told him, god, you are supposed to be justice as my grandmother said, but you are not just because you prefer my brother though i am more intelligent than my brother. [laughter] >> and so the point is, i told him, if you are not just i'm not really to believe new. [applause] >> and i tell you this is the mind of all children. all children are born creative. girls and boys, poor, rich, black and white we are all born created. creativity is not something for some genius writers up there, no. everybody -- every child born creative but we lose our creaticreat creaticreat creatititicreat creatity -- creative, through sociallation, inhibition and all that. so every child is sensitive and understand that there is a problem that god is not just but -- and when i wrote, of course, the word if you are not just and not ready to believe in you, i was trembling, i was afraid because he would take me to hell, you know? but, anyway, i did it. i wrote it. and then, of course, i burned the letter. t

everybody gets this koran. well, of all of these things going on down there at gitmo, they have a promise, no matter how logical it is to keep it open, no matter how logical it is to process these enemy combatants through the procedures that this congress has lawfully set up, gitmo will be closed, despite all logic, and it convinced me of that when i saw the bulletin board with the executive order on it. the president's not going to rescind any executive order that they have posted in front of the gitmo detainees, the enemy combatants, the former terrorists. that's the strongest message think a picked up while i was there. i'd be happy to yield to the gentleman from texas. mr. carter: i thank the gentleman for yielding. as you were talking about guantanamo bay, it dawned on me that we talk about the -- the world talks about american treatment of political prisoners they're calling them, we call them enemy combatants, which i think, since we picked them up on the battlefield, we have a present decent argument, w

he takes apart the koran for survivors, chapter by chapter. and he explains where it is wrong and then he preaches the gospel and tells people, read the new testament for yourself, read the bible, then on friday seedcakes call-ins. people call in and they are screaming. not all of them but some of them are apoplectic. there was a $60 million bounty on father's zachariah's head. just to put that into perspective, the united states has a $25 million bounty on the head of osama bin laden tso you get a perspective of how much radical muslims want to kill this man because thousands of people, thousands of muslims are coming to faith in jesus christ every week through his ministry. this afternoon-- amen, yeah, amen, hello. [applause] i hope you will stay for this afternoon session and those of you watching by web, that you continue to stay here because during the q&a portion we are going to show a video message from zachariah. he is excited about what we are doing here and he's got an amazing message to deliver for us. there is another guy i want to

[laughter] >> and i spent ten years of my life comparing the koran to the old testament, to the new testament. i studied them firm. i went even to england and studied there because i wanted to understand the word of god. what's that? what god says and then i discovered that those holy books are full of contradictions, racism, hostility toward women, hostility to the other, the stranger, the infidel, morality, morality for men, morality for women. i didn't find real morality in religions or in religions. i didn't find freedom to think or to criticize. i felt a lot of hostility with the other. you ought to kill the infidel in all religions. so i started to write. i started to express because knowledge is irreversible. i cannot go back and abolish my knowledge. the problem i would like to say, what i noticed -- and this is a big problem now, political problem. that nobody criticizes judaism or christianity. they criticize only islam. and i wrote about muslim women in the market, how women writers, muslim women writers, who attack islam only, they become rich and known and they are everywhere. so

the first country in human history to be governed by shari'a law, by the laws of the koran. now, on that 30th anniversary, as iran marked that time, israel had a change of government. it actually happened the day before. .. and i don't envy the role that he has now. his first interview he gave as prime minister was to the atlantic magazine, american magazine they put on the web site right away that headline was this: netanyahu to obama, stop iran or i will. [applause] he warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of apocalyptic cult leaders, leaders of iran. what did he mean? why did he say this? he said it because the current leaders of iran believe that the end of the world is near. this is what they are saying publicly. in the book, inside the revolution, i walk through these quotes from their books, from their speeches come from their web sites, from their videos so you hear in their own words and of course when the film comes out we will be doing the same thing. so you hear what they are saying. they are seeing the end of the world is at hand. the l

the holy koran tells us oh, mankind, we have created you, male and female, and we have made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another. the talmud tells us that the whole of the torah is for the purpose of promoting peace. the holy bible tells us that blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of god. [applause] the people of the world can live together in peace. we know that is god's vision. now that must be our work here on earth. thank you, and may god's peace be upon you. thank you. [applause] [chanting obama] >> a coverage of general motors bankruptcy begins with remarks on president obama a bailout general motors' future and a statement from the ceo fritz henderson. a little later, a hearing on the closing of dealerships with remarks from the ceo of general motors and the president of chrysler. tonight on "q &a" a talk with governor mitch daniels who worked under president george w. bush and was a senior advisor to president reagan. at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> i do not really know. >> from

koranic click on to much for job creation this year, because the american recovery and reinvestment act requires piles of red tape to get federal funding and it will delay people going to work. i am just giving you a small sampling of what they are telling us as far as the difficulty in getting people. i have been home folks. i have got a lot of folks hurting. florida just went over 10%, double digit unemployment. nationally we are now with 9.4%. i have one county with 15% unemployment. not one person ask me to come to washington and pass a more red tape. people want jobs and they want them now, so finally, in this report, and actually, it is not included on the back of the report but i think we have this judy to these to members. and we have taken the figures, provided by d.o.t.. you can see the outlays, the unemployment rate and in each of the states. also, the amount of money again that has been expended. what they did is, on this particular chart here, these are the top ten, highest unemployment states including the district of columbia and it shows the amount of outlay as that, it

described there being big portraits of shia saints on the walls and they brought a mulla to read from the koran after that they brought somebody to talk about the irani/and iraqi war and this was meant to be a party and they passed out the snacks that usually kids in elementary school will eat. and then the party favor was a book on marriage written by the ayatollah khamenei who is the country's supreme leader. only 300 people attended the government's moderation party. and so i mention this anecdote and i write about it as a way of illustrating how the government is slowly -- is recognizing the social crises that are on its hands and what young people are struggling with but it's very often unable to address these problems because the tools that are at its disposable very often, religion and ideological tools like that, don't resonate with young people. most iranian young people although they may have faith certainly, they may pray during -- they may pray, they may fast during ramadan but are very alienated of the official youth of religious ideology and so in many ways this makes the governme