ALISYN CAMEROTA (CO-HOST): Mr. Jaka, I want to ask you, because you have a huge community there, you are the chairman of the second largest, I believe, mosque and Muslim community in the country. So what is it like for your community? What has the response been to this travel ban??? RIZWAN JAKA: Alisyn, thank you so much. Peace be with you. As the American Muslim community, we absolutely believe in national security, and we believe in the Constitution and upholding American values and democracy. And we believe that -- we actually had a Holocaust survivor at our mosque yesterday for Holocaust Remembrance Day and she said it very clearly, that we must welcome the stranger, as the Jewish community has spoken out, the Christian community has spoken out, that we must welcome people of all faiths and backgrounds. The refugees, the immigrants. And so we absolutely agree with the interfaith community that we must uphold the American values. I went over to Dulles airport after the Holocaust remembrance event and I spoke to people there and heard about stories about a U.S. citizen, his sons, who are green cardholders from Yemen, were made to turn away their green cards and they were turned back. Now they're stuck in Ethiopia. Christian Syrians were turned back. And so this executive order's unintended consequences or intended consequences has really causing a lot of challenges and concerns in the Muslim community, Christian community, Jewi
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