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This is getting play. the world is watching this sort of thing. i wonder how much you think there's a foreign policy implication that weighed into the president's decision in coming out and making the statement on friday? >> i think there are foreign policy implications, but i think what's ironic is that previous -- prior to this happening, the arab world is the arab and muslim world is actually very disappointed with president obama. they feel like he hasn't met up with the expectations set in his cairo speech, which is really ironic, because here republicans portray the president as being to...

Protected that you don't like. especially whether it comes to the first amendment, which protects hateful speech. even setting aside hateful speech, you might say to me, chris, do you support the conservative weekly magazine, "the national review"? what would i say? i don't really agree with much of what they publish. in fact, some of it is downright awful. but i certainly don't want anyone attempting to stop them from publishing. support just isn't the right verb to use. do i support justin bieber's musical career? well, i'll tell you, i don't really like his music much, but i don't think the...

Very imperative responsibility if we want to be able to talk to muslim majority countries and to muslims around the world. so the speech of obama talking to americans is very important but us together, at our level we should be much more committed to change these mentalities of victimhood. >> this is a discussion that is going to go on for a long time, clearly. tariq ramadan, james zogby, thank you both so much for joining me. >> thank you. and to join another discussion about a claim that victimization of muslims in america is a complete myth, logon to amanpour.com/facebook. next, it was ...

Criticism towards the american policy in afghanistan and iraq and what i called the unilateral support towards the israeli government, not respecting the palestinian rights. so, it was at that moment, under the bush administration. >> why are you back and taking such a public profile, high profile? >> look, because, in fact, this story with the previous administration is over. now, it's really for me to come to the essential and the essential is to say, for example, as a european and as a westerner that islam is a western religion and that muslims are now american-muslims, european muslims, an...

Living together. >> so president obama, as we mentioned, as the world knows, has sort of charted a different course toward the muslim world. that speech in cairo was quite revolutionary. has the promise of that speech been fulfilled, even in part over the last year? >> i think that we have to be constructively critical. many things are the same and remain the same. what he came with is a new vision and new discourse, a new way to talk to the muslims and talk about our diversity and living together. and this has to be acknowledged. what he said, for example, about us living together and the val...