On this week’s half-hour webcast, “Behind the Headlines,” Weekly reporters Sue Dremann and Elena Kadvany talk with Samina Faheem Sundas, founder of American Muslim Voice, about the current U.S. political climate and the local Muslim community. Her grassroots organization seeks to foster friendships among all Americans, especially between Muslims and others, through dialogue.

Watch this week’s webcast here.

Webcasts are posted every Friday afternoon on PaloAltoOnline.com, as well as on Palo Alto Online’s YouTube channel, youtube.com/paweekly.

Check out previous weeks’ episodes:

• Behind The Headlines: Locals to Impact Olympics

• Behind The Headlines: Race, Policing and Reconciliation

• Behind the Headlines: Reporters’ Roundtable

• Behind The Headlines: Innovator in Education

• Behind The Headlines: Spectacular fireworks

• Behind The Headlines: Elementary math, Castilleja expansion

• Behind the Headlines: Saving Buena Vista

• Behind The Headlines: Brock Turner uproar and election recap

• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto students speak out

• Behind The Headlines: DA’s fatal police shooting report & Cash flows into the Assembly race

• Behind the Headlines: Teacher Compensation in Palo Alto

• Behind The Headlines: To the rescue — Disaster volunteers prepare

• Behind The Headlines: Size Matters — Student-to-teacher ratios in Palo Alto

• Behind the Headlines: Transportation: problems and solutions

• Behind the Headlines: Taxi struggles and Eichler disputes

• Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto considers full-day kindergarten

• Behind The Headlines: State Assembly District 24 — A look at the candidates

• Behind The Headlines: College Terrace challenge Stanford toxic study

• Behind the Headlines: Inside the Brock Turner case

• Behind the Headlines: Tackling Palo Alto’s housing and traffic problems

• Behind the Headlines: Dr. Steven Adelsheim on youth mental health

• Behind the Headlines: Renaming movement, Addison Donation, Office Cap

• Behind the Headlines: “State of the City” with Mayor Pat Burt

• Behind the Headlines: Bridging the gap – Understanding Palo Alto’s Chinese community

• Behind the Headlines: Growing up Undocumented

• Behind the Headlines: Talking Sustainability with Gil Friend

• Behind the Headlines: Secondary dwelling units, New school proposal

• Behind the Headlines: Stanford University and Sexual Assault, Prepping for the Super Bowl

• Behind the Headlines: Development at Stanford Research Park; police and the mentally ill

• Behind the Headlines: Divisive mayoral election; fatal police shooting

• Behind the Headlines: The year’s best and worst movies

• Behind the Headlines: 2015 Year in Review

• Behind the Headlines: Inside Palo Alto’s Emergency Center

• Behind the Headlines: Undisclosed new-school proposal; groundwater pumping

• Behind the Headlines: Buena Vista owner sues City; New plans for public-safety center

• Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto Fire Department changes

• Behind the Headlines: Midtown bicycle paths; Transgender youth

• Behind the Headlines: New school proposed for Palo Alto

• Behind the Headlines: Tension within governing boards

• Behind the Headlines: Affordable housing; Transportation initiatives

• Behind the Headlines: Paly teacher investigation

• Behind the Headlines: Stanford students’ activism against sexual assault

• Behind the Headlines: Preserving retail; capping office development

• Behind the Headlines: Transportation tax; Fiber to the Premise

• Behind the Headlines: Fall Arts Preview

• Behind the Headlines: Police conduct on campuses; new parkland

• Behind the Headlines: Minimum wage; airplane noise

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8 Comments

  1. Demeaning is not respectful.

    We live to raise good values and be example to next generation.

    So, sir Donald you have no right to criticize a distrust mother who lost her son in a war who fought for his adopted country.

    So, Mr & Mrs Khan, we salute your son’s sacrifice.

    Let’s open our eyes, open our ears and decide who is better for our country to be the next president may be for eight more years.

    It’s your right and careful discretion is requested.

    Respectfully.

  3. I agree that Trump should not have criticized the mother, but Mr. Khan is fair game. He severely criticized Trump in a national audience, yet he failed to mention that he supports sharia law, and he pulled out a copy of the U.S. Constitution, which sharia law completely opposes.

    There are other gold star parents who completely disagree with what the Khans did for political reasons. BTW, Mr. Khan is a lawyer that makes his money by providing turnkey green cards to families of rich Muslims who can jump to the front of the line.

  5. @@John: Please be specific. What is you criticism? Mr. Khan is as a described him. He decided to make a big political play, based on his son’s death. Mr. Khan supports sharia law. Please inform me where I am wrong. He is not someone that is a good example to back by local Muslims.

  6. And yet more of the same from you.

    I guess there is very good reason for area Muslims to feel concerned about this presidential election, given the rhetoric coming from people like you…

  7. I should have said distraught mother not distrust mother.

    Additionally, no body knows the pain of losing ones own child. Only the sufferer knows. It’s nobody’s business to bring family values stuff even if one is a billionaire.

    These are examples of the future behavior expected of a future president if we vote for this candidate.

    I am also equally concerned about losing our ambassador Chris Stevens a native of berkeley by lack of protection given to his team in Libya.

    It’s the responsibility of state department to engage CIA and defense department to protect violent areas like in Libya. This is people sleeping on their job. It tells us where their head is.

    We do have two interesting choices.

    God bless us in our mighty USA.

    Respectfully

  8. “Mr. Khan is as a described him. He decided to make a big political play, based on his son’s death. Mr. Khan supports sharia law. Please inform me where I am wrong.”

    Wrong on all counts, for beginners. Mr. Khan is predictably the target of a wingnut smear campaign for his sentiments. As a law student in 1983, he did write a paper on Sharia law. That is per his Constitutional right of freedom of speech. Look it up. I bet he will lend you his copy of the Constitution after Mr. Trump returns it.

    Both the Democrats and Mr. Khan knew Mr. Khan’s grief would prick The Donald’s famously paper-thin skin and goad him to again show his deep contempt for our troops and their families. Trump just could not resist the bait. Neither can his wingnut sycophants.

    “He is not someone that is a good example to back by local Muslims.”

    And who are you to judge? Note: you do have a Constitutional right to, but why use it to be an ass [portion removed]?

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