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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There have been over 27,000 terrorists acts by Muslims in the world since 911? Why would anyone think that Islam is a violent religion?
The Left is tripping over itself trying to defend the Muzzies.
Countries have an obligation to import Muslims? I don’t think so.
It’s one of those obvious facts; i.e., Is a ripe tomato red?
He’s right. We should respond with ionizing radiation.
Better intolerantly alive than tolerantly dead, and
better intolerantly free than tolerantly repressed.
It has been said before, the Muslims need to clean up their own before crying to me how unfair I am to judge.
I've been hearing this same shiite for 14 years. Profile. Target. Destroy. Islam is the problem.
The Left need to look in the mirror. Every time there’s act of violence in the the US, they automatically blame tea party without evidence. They also continue to promote hate against white and police officers
As it turns out, Islam is NOT a religion. It needs to be outlawed and exterminated.
Well, there's a meme to support....
I was looking for but could not find any report on how the newspapers in Muslin countries portrayed the Paris killings - also the usual street demonstrators???
Anyone know?
This guy have a “coexist” sticker on his limo?
He is right in the sense that we should love our enemies and pray for them. Sometimes, in this case, we should kill them too.
Always remember the true meaning of the term "Tolerance" is the inability to say 'yes' or 'no' the inability to take a stand.
I was thinking we could response with a good, strong rope.
“otherize” ??? Okay, right ...
Yes, I can blame them all.
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