"Ignorance is reigning supreme": Rula Jebreal on Charlie Hebdo, Bill Maher & our inane foreign policy
Salon"Where are the moderate Muslims?" It's a cry you're guaranteed to come across, not only on Fox News or in the pages of the New York Post, whenever there's a horrible attack like the one in Paris last week. As Rula Jebreal, the Palestinian-Italian journalist, author and foreign policy analyst has argued, there are no shortage of moderate Muslims out there, striving to be heard. We also touched on the inextricable role U.S. foreign policy plays in the rise of Islamic extremism — and why the accusatory demands that moderate Muslims apologize for jihadist atrocities that come from figures like Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher only make the problem worse. Speaking of double standards, I couldn’t help but notice that you sent a tweet the other day to Bill Maher, who himself tweeted that Muslims who condemned the Charlie Hebdo attack were not doing enough — and that anyone who won’t go so far as to endorse the right to blaspheme is “not a moderate Muslim.” Why do I need to endorse anything?
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