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Kristof: We "Have To Be Careful Not To Respond To Intolerance of Jihadis With Our Own Intolerance"
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 8, 2015 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 01/08/2015 1:33:04 PM PST by i88schwartz

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof warns "we have to be very, very careful not to engage in religious profiling and to recognize that one can't blame 1.6 billion adherents of this vast and complex religion."

"One can't blame this event on all of them. One has to acknowledge that the Taliban folks who is shot Malala [Yousafzai] are one element of Islam and Malala herself is another. And this is a religion that contains multitudes," Kristof said Thursday afternoon on CNN.

Kristof also warned of society's tendacy to "otherize" people.

"I think we have a tendency to otherize people, if you will, of a different race, a different religion, a different ethnicity and then to perceive events into a narrative of threat and this is a very natural human thing," Kristol said. "And I must say when I travel around the Mideast, I sit down in mosques and hear clerics concoct these extraordinary sort of paranoid visions of America because every data point that they get plugs into this stereotype that they have and they otherize us. I think we really, really have to be careful not to respond to the extraordinary intolerance of these jihadis with our own intolerance."

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KEYWORDS: barackobama; charliehebdo; intolerance; nicholaskristof; paristerrorattack
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To: i88schwartz
"I think we have a tendency to otherize people, if you will, of a different race, a different religion, a different ethnicity and then to perceive events into a narrative of threat and this is a very natural human thing," Kristol said. "And I must say when I travel around the Mideast, I sit down in mosques and hear clerics concoct these extraordinary sort of paranoid visions of America because every data point that they get plugs into this stereotype that they have and they otherize us.

I suggest Mr. Kristol bring this message of peace and tolerance to Syria. I'm sure ISIS will be very interested in what he has to say. They may even let him live. But I wouldn't bet on it.

81 posted on 01/08/2015 5:20:54 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Donkey Odious
Made up words for made up excuses.

Yup. I can't stand buzz words in the first place and this sounds like one of the newest. Guess it makes them feel special or smarter than the masses when they use it.

82 posted on 01/08/2015 6:59:28 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: i88schwartz

The mindless assumption that “intolerance” is bad disappoints me. Which is better: tolerance of evil, or intolerance of evil? Any decent person knows the answer. “Discrimination” between good and bad is a good thing. Intolerance of evil is a good thing. Uniformly good health is better than a “diversity” of health states.

Liberals have defined words that reflect judgement to have moral values, regardless of how they are applied, and that reflects a lack of critical thinking. It’s time to take language back and use words properly.


83 posted on 01/08/2015 7:00:12 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: i88schwartz

Hey Kristof, they chop off the heads of gay people like you every day. How come you don’t complain about that?


84 posted on 01/08/2015 7:04:08 PM PST by Batman11 (The cryin oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: GOPJ; i88schwartz; Old Sarge; EnigmaticAnomaly; Califreak; kalee; milford421; ...

Check out this article:

6 (Six) Times The Obama Administration Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/08/6-times-the-obama-administration-said-its-job-was-to-promote-islam/

Thanks, GOPJ.

85 posted on 01/08/2015 7:47:20 PM PST by LucyT
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To: i88schwartz

uh oh, climate change is causing all of this? Must have read the wrong article ... Maybe the topic was dirt isn’t dirt anymore.


86 posted on 01/08/2015 7:55:26 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: baddog 219

BTTT!


87 posted on 01/08/2015 8:06:03 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conundrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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Kristof: We "Have To Be Careful Not To Respond To Intolerance of Jihadis With Our Own Intolerance"


Well, OK then!
Let's respond with mirth and laughter!



88 posted on 01/08/2015 8:26:38 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: i88schwartz
"I think we have a tendency to otherize people, if you will, of a different race, a different religion, a different ethnicity and then to perceive events into a narrative of threat and this is a very natural human thing,"...gee, Nick, if only we could all be as intelligent, as sensitive, as perceptive - hell, as wonderful as you are.....
89 posted on 01/08/2015 8:54:27 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: i88schwartz

Dear Nicholasl;

You are a freaking idiot, with no grounding whatsoever in reality. Go and do what I have done, in the places I have done it, with the muslims I have had deep conversations with.


90 posted on 01/08/2015 8:58:49 PM PST by AbnSarge
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To: RinaseaofDs

Couldn’t have been Auschwitz - that was deep in Soviet territory at the time.


91 posted on 01/09/2015 4:16:59 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: i88schwartz
"...recognize that one can't blame 1.6 billion adherents of this vast and complex religion."

Radical Islam are those who cut the heads off infidels/other sects; "moderate" Islam are those who approve the radical Islamic cutting the heads off infidels/other sects; Western Islam is a smokescreen under the moderate label; secular Islam are those who consciousness eventually leads them to another ideology
92 posted on 01/09/2015 4:34:31 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: i88schwartz

The multitudes cheered 9/11. There have been very few individual voices who have condemned these acts. Needles in haystacks.


93 posted on 01/09/2015 7:42:23 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: i88schwartz

FU Nicholas! We aren’t intolerant enough.


94 posted on 01/09/2015 7:42:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: i88schwartz

Tolerance indicates there is something wrong but you are resigned to put up with it rather than stopping/changing the wrong. Kristoff is admitting islam is wrong.


95 posted on 01/09/2015 8:03:08 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: GOPJ; LucyT

TY; There is a thread on this article, but it hasn’t gotten enough attention.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3245176/posts


96 posted on 01/09/2015 3:26:23 PM PST by thouworm
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To: i88schwartz

Another Harvard graduate who is always wrong.

(PS - the hair coloring isn't fooling anyone)

97 posted on 01/09/2015 3:30:00 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: thouworm

bump


98 posted on 01/10/2015 11:03:29 AM PST by GOPJ ("I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. "Charb Charbonnier-Publisher Charlie Hebdo.)
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