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Such a kind of brutal image? even well meaning people, even tolerant peel basically believe that at the end of the day there's something in the religion that seems to breed fanatacism or intolerance or violence. and that if you look at an event around the world, if it's a terrorist event or something like that, there is a tendency to assume that it must be those muslims out there somewhere, nigeria, indonesia, why do you think that is? >> that is because honestly there are fanatic, intolerant muslims who have been making the news because they have been doing or saying horrible things. but my a...

>> there's no stoning in the koran. the idea that you should excuse someone for -- does not exist in the koran. the idea that women are not smart enough to advise men, that's not in the koran. a lot of troubling issues that we find in the muslim world do not come from the core of the religion, which is the scripture, they come from historical interations and they sometimes reflect just medieval middle eastern culture which makes it easy to make a case for reform. >> most people will think of it as a central part of islam, women in black veils, head to toe, the line in the koran as i understand...

Islam. you leave the kaaba and go to burger king or starbucks which is next to the shrine, you have to be separated. men and women go two different ways because the saudi kingdom physically separates men and women in every public space thinking that that's the pious thing to do except in kaaba. if you want to talk to a lady, this is the only place you can do this is the kaaba. >> what do you say when people say, fine, christianity was intolerant 500 years ago. right now we're dealing with islam is going through a very intolerant phase and it is, therefore, the problem? >> i would agree with th...