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That the way americans, what they see of muslims, on the news every day, is only, basically, people that are perverting the religion and conducting terrorism. >> well, that was what george w. bush said to his credit, after 9/11. he stood with islamic leaders, here in washington, and said that those hijackers are perverting islam. they are hijacking islam. and that the -- that islam is a religion of peace. that was a very strong statement. very important for him to make. and you remember a lot of...

Trade center? and it gets back to this larger question. theres a strong case in here that the way americans, what they see of muslims, on the news every day, is only, basically, people that are perverting the religion and conducting terrorism. >> well, that was what george w. bush said to his credit, after 9/11. he stood with islamic leaders, here in washington, and said that those hijackers are perverting islam. they are hijacking islam. and that the -- that islam is a religion of peace. that w...

It was about judaism, catholicism even went after atheism. he was specific in embracing the components of left wing pluralism. >> thats a great point. for those who are not familiar with the magazine. its easy to see a few headlines and believe with every issue the publication targeted islam and that was not the case. >> absolutely. it targets in a satirical way faith across the spectrum. given the fact that france is has such a huge muslim population, 5 million, the biggest in western europe. g...

By a group. we dont know the identity. it seems to me an al qaeda group. >> picking up a little bit what the professor pointed out just to paint the landscape. france 10% muslim. most of disaffected unemployed were under employed ripe for recruitment. nevertheless as secretary kerry pointed out saying the journalists were martyrs and the people, in fact if they are acting under isis or al qaeda do not represent islam. >> yeah. i think youre picking up on that point, tamron. its important we take...

On french militants to basically attack soft targets. this was just a few weeks ago. france is engaged and it is all out war between militants of al qaeda variety and france. the second point i want to highlight here. regardless of who has taken carried out the particular attack. its essential to highlight we dont have perpetrators. we dont know the identity so far. what we need to understand is militants of al qaeda variety are trying to hijack islamist identity. theyre trying to say were the v...

Making fun of religion. its a long stranding tradition especially in france which means the absence of religion in certain elements of public life. obviously religion is alive and well in france of all kinds. and again its -- theres this ugly dynamic that goes on where a couple terribly violent, horrible people do an act like this and then a lot of the muslims of france then feel like they are in a country where everyone becomes -- its kind of like a minority of people did the terrible thing and...