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Board, but so far their participation in the military operation has been minimal. are they really behind this? is the arab league endorsement which was so critical in getting the u.n. on board, is that going to hold? >> i think it will hold for the time being. he's made a career out of making comments about the united states, never engages in self criticism and intro specs and he's in election mode. and some of his friends even will concede that he has been very opportunistic politician. but i think the saudis would like to see the regime in rip

A problem. >> i can't tell you how much i disagree with that. in fact, this is an opportunity to show we want to lead a fight to stop the radicalization. we failed as a country and we failed to find solutions. and it's time to have some hearings about this and figure out how we as muslims can have a muslim solution to this. this is not putting islam on trial or muslims, in fact, it's an opportunity for us to fight this, figure out the source. we have too long as a nation, t.j., been focused just on violence. that final step. muslims aren't -- the vast majority of muslims have been turning peop...

Self-criticism. it's easy to throw it across the aisle. it's easy for me to criticize rush limbaugh. we also, as democrats, are going to be a little partisan for the right reason, have to be quick to say when democrats have also crossed that line if, in fact, we're going to bring it back to the middle. but i think rush limbaugh really has got to acknowledge that that sort of commentary is just wrong. to mock a foreign leader, let alone the racial stereotype, to mock a foreign leader when he knows he's one of the two or three most powerful people in the republican party, just doesn't speak well...

Yes, he's been granted a great leadership position. i'm just playing devil's advocate here. >> sure, i got you. >> by the white house, by the way. so i think he can defend himself to the extent he's not representing anyone except himself, but it was embarrassing, and it was goofy. and it was just bad form. can we condemn him on that basis? >> oh, yeah. that shouldn't be a long ball. here's the thing. is that rush limbaugh, he has a huge amount of influence in the contemporary republican party and conservative circles of debate. the problem is that folks are very quick to excuse the inexcusable...

Effort to fix the problem, and i know jenna that many muslims don't want to hear this, in fact they call me antiislam for promoting this message and i remind them the koran must be antiislam as well because it explicitly states god does not change the condition of the people until they change what is inside themselves. that's a call for self-criticism, that's a call for change, no matter who is offended. jenna: so you say we should be asking very basic questions of the muslims putting together this cultural center. what are the questions we should be asking? >> one of the big problems in islam...