since i have been part of it since the beginning, the three constants in all of my work have been tom farr, frank wolf and chris smith. two of them are here today. and they're both great heroes in the cause for religious freedom. thank you for what you do. and i want to thank the religious freedom project at the berkeley center for cosponsoring this meeting today in part of our ongoing and productive partnership with your, tom, and with rfp. the project does serious work and today we're talking about the most serious of topics. so your excellencies, your graces, fellow ambassadors, ladies, gentlemen and i can say with a great deal of pride, a lot of friends in this room. i am keeply honored to be here. many of you have risked your lives to help victims of daesh violence. while many others have spent your lives fighting against a hateful ideologies of intolerance that fuel daesh's rise, which you have done amongst very vital ways by forging interreligious coalition to promote human rights, tolerance, inclusiveness and peace, both here in the united states and across the globe and in the eas

work since i've been part of it from the beginning, the three constants in all of my work have been tom farr frank wolf and chris smith, two of whom who are here today and they are both great heroes in the cost for religious freedom. so thank you for what you do. and i want to thank the religious freedom project at the berkeley center for cosponsoring this meeting today and part of our ongoing a productive partnership with you, tom, and