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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; charliehebdo; intolerance; nicholaskristof; paristerrorattack
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To: i88schwartz

Blooming Idiot


41 posted on 01/08/2015 2:05:28 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Liz; Travis McGee; LucyT; sickoflibs; MrB; stephenjohnbanker

You have to read this...

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


42 posted on 01/08/2015 2:05:44 PM PST by GOPJ ("I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. "Charb Charbonnier-Publisher Charlie Hebdo.)
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To: i88schwartz

It’s just a little hard not to “otherize” people who are trying to shoot, bomb, or decapitate you, and people who are in open sympathy with them.


43 posted on 01/08/2015 2:06:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: pallis

Islam is NOT an advance in Western Civ...


44 posted on 01/08/2015 2:06:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: GOPJ

Is there any doubt that Obama is a Muslim?


45 posted on 01/08/2015 2:09:11 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: i88schwartz

RE: “Have To Be Careful Not To Respond To Intolerance of Jihadis With Our Own Intolerance”

So, he wants us to tolerate the intolerant?


46 posted on 01/08/2015 2:09:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: i88schwartz

Last I checked, telling Islamofascists that Freedom of Speech is absolute isn’t intolerance...unless you’re a spineless politician who changes stripes depending on what gets you the most votes.


47 posted on 01/08/2015 2:14:13 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: i88schwartz

You can always tell when a lefty is not writing about white conservatives; he bleats the word “tolerance” a lot.


48 posted on 01/08/2015 2:19:31 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: i88schwartz

this vast and complex religion.”

AHAHAHAHAHA he had to say something MEANINGFUL and opted for making something up out of whole cloth

vast and complex...My Read End!


49 posted on 01/08/2015 2:20:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Paladin2

Islam hasn’t been an advance for any civilization it has conquered. There isn’t a place on Earth that wouldn’t be better off had Islam never shown up.


50 posted on 01/08/2015 2:21:07 PM PST by pallis
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To: Donkey Odious

Next time the bigots at the Times harangue Texans, Southerners, or Conservatives, they should be accused of “Otherizing.” They do it all the time.


51 posted on 01/08/2015 2:23:37 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: i88schwartz

Tolerance, he says...I don’t think that word means what you think it means. ..


52 posted on 01/08/2015 2:25:36 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: pallis

“We “Have To Be Careful Not To Respond To Intolerance of Jihadis With Our Own Intolerance”.......

Being TOO passive is what has gotten us into this mess, Its high time we start responding ten fold.


53 posted on 01/08/2015 2:26:26 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: i88schwartz

And the avalanche of appeasement begins...

Good grief, it won’t be until they’re looking down the barrel of an AK held by a muzzie that they realize just how stupid they were...


54 posted on 01/08/2015 2:27:59 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: i88schwartz

9/11 did not phase him a bit.


55 posted on 01/08/2015 2:35:02 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: i88schwartz

Mr. Kristof, that sounds nice ... but will you EVER respond in any meaningful fashion to eliminate the murderous IslamoNazi terrorist (and invasion) threat?


56 posted on 01/08/2015 2:35:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: i88schwartz

“”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.” “

“We” - speak for yourself, Muslim Groveler.


57 posted on 01/08/2015 2:39:23 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: i88schwartz

Another follower of the “Last to be beheaded” strategy.


58 posted on 01/08/2015 2:43:39 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: i88schwartz

The less said the better. Kristof is part of the same problem.


59 posted on 01/08/2015 2:44:55 PM PST by AdaGray
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To: Cowboy Bob

“The Left is tripping over itself trying to defend the Muzzies.”

The Muslims are the Commnists foot soldiers in the war against liberty and freedom.

Eventually these two ideologies will have to fight each other. But not until the US and Israel are gone. And Iran having a bomb takes care of Israel.


60 posted on 01/08/2015 2:50:38 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Global Warming is caused by government grants to academics." DJ Taylor)
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