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When the terrorists attacked we will never forget that and we will always honor the families and the people in that community who didnt walk away from new york. they actually stayed and rebuilt the community. having said that, a few very well orchestrateddage territories have created a situation where we have now seen tea party people going after jewish american elected officials, mayor bloomberg, myself, the speaker of our state assembly shelly silver. they are using this as a national politica...

>> laura: wow. with us now manhattan bureau president scott stringer and joining us from washington chair of islamic studies at american university president akbar ahmed. journey into america, the challenge of islam. gentlemen, great to see you both. professor, im going to start with you because i know you listened to what dick morris just said. and there is a national concern growing, i believe, about what the imam, the controversial imam has said about america being the most compliant sharia c...

Function. yes, some of them need to be reformed, stream lined, brought up to date. need to be more culturally sensitive to living in america. i would be very concerned about the imams who trained them. what are the kind of sill by they are preaching. what theyre preaching. we cannot just simply paint with this broad brush. we need to be very careful about because it tends to demonize the entire muslim community. >> laura: which is not what the intent is. scott, lets talk about this controversy i...

When the terrorists attacked we will never forget that and we will always honor the families and the people in that community who didnt walk away from new york. they actually stayed and rebuilt the community. having said that, a few very well orchestrateddage territories have created a situation where we have now seen tea party people going after jewish american elected officials, mayor bloomberg, myself, the speaker of our state assembly shelly silver. they are using this as a national politica...

When the terrorists attacked we will never forget that and we will always honor the families and the people in that community who didnt walk away from new york. they actually stayed and rebuilt the community. having said that, a few very well orchestrateddage territories have created a situation where we have now seen tea party people going after jewish american elected officials, mayor bloomberg, myself, the speaker of our state assembly shelly silver. they are using this as a national politica...

>> laura: wow. with us now manhattan bureau president scott stringer and joining us from washington chair of islamic studies at american university president akbar ahmed. journey into america, the challenge of islam. gentlemen, great to see you both. professor, im going to start with you because i know you listened to what dick morris just said. and there is a national concern growing, i believe, about what the imam, the controversial imam has said about america being the most compliant sharia c...

Function. yes, some of them need to be reformed, stream lined, brought up to date. need to be more culturally sensitive to living in america. i would be very concerned about the imams who trained them. what are the kind of sill by they are preaching. what theyre preaching. we cannot just simply paint with this broad brush. we need to be very careful about because it tends to demonize the entire muslim community. >> laura: which is not what the intent is. scott, lets talk about this controversy i...

>> laura: wow. with us now manhattan bureau president scott stringer and joining us from washington chair of islamic studies at american university president akbar ahmed. journey into america, the challenge of islam. gentlemen, great to see you both. professor, im going to start with you because i know you listened to what dick morris just said. and there is a national concern growing, i believe, about what the imam, the controversial imam has said about america being the most compliant sharia c...

That daisy khan was saying on the sunday show. >> we want to meet with the stake holders who matter who are the new yorkers. the community board has overwhelmingly supported this and the politicians, scott stringer and mayor bloomberg and we have to be cognizant that we have the constitutional right and we have the muslim community around the nation to be concerned about and we have the extremists to worry about as well because they are seizing this moment. >> the antimosque protest has more tha...

We have religious tolerance and religious freedom. i support that. i promote that. that is a core american value. however -- >> reverend. >> however, the wisdom of this, and to politicize it the way it has been is wrong. it sways the mind of people. we need to understand 3,000 americans lost their lives, republicans and democrats. >> and by the way -- >> go ahead, scott stringer. >> and by the way, jews and muslims also lost their lives. quite frankly, as an american jew, im offended that newt g...