should really do is abandon it and that s the path of true salvation, they re going to go and say, damn, why didn t i think of that? so you know, what it suggests is, you know, if you re trying to say something provocative to bring attention to yourself, that s one thing. but are you really trying to reform the faith? i don t think that we should lock 1.57 billion people in the world in a book that was written in the 7th century in a moral guide that we say existed in the 7th century. since then humanity has evolved. moral ideas have come that have been tested and tried. why xwlud muslims but ayaan from the values of liberal democracy hold on a second. why lock them up in a book? that s the point. it s not locking us up. and you know, my worry, my risk or rather the worry i have for you is that you risk minimizing the possibility that
so i do think it s fair to say that the americans are doing something right with the assimilation and integration of their muslim populations compared with france or northern europe, where you go and you see these people in horrible ghettos, totally isolated from the mainstream public and they are very isolated, reactionary in those communities, but there s certainly something happening where these communities are not integrating them. i agree with you and i disagree with you. i agree with you in that the number of young men and women who have been indoctrinated to the level of faisal shahzad that they actually want to act, that that number is small. in america. everywhere. i mean, let s be grateful. of the 1.57 billion muslims that number is relatively small. those who actually want to act. but to come back to america, to come back to america, i think that even though the number of
anyone who comes into this kind of exploration and research is going to be scrutinized and vetted as they should be. the question becomes do you want to have a different relationship in terms of technology and science with 1.57 billion people, including seven or eight million mere in the united states who are among the most talented in the engineering community, medical research and scientific community? i don t that i precludes the kind of pluralism all of us want to see in science. it does say muslims matter and reaching out to muslims is important in the larger context. sean: daniel the last word. i think i just established muslims already are part of nasa. it is affirmative action although he calls it absurd. let me cite a speech mr. bolden gave in cairo. the president asked nasa to change by reaching it to nontraditional partners strengthening cooperation with the mideast, north africa, southeast asia and particularly muslim majority
if we are talking about shouldn t our goal be to go to the moon, go to mars? well, absolutely. what the administrator of nasa said did not try to redefine that essential objective. he was placing his remarks in the context of the speech that president obama made in cairo a year earlier, to create a different set of relationships with 1.57 billion people in the muslim world. sean: that s not what he said. he said his foremost task, this is the administrator of nasa, the foremost task he said the president, was to reach out to the muslim world and engage much more prominently with muslim nations to help them feel good about their contributions to science. what does that have to do with nasa? well what it has to do is creating a different set of relationships with a part of the world that traditionally has not been considered a part
if we are talking about shouldn t our goal be to go to the moon, go to mars? well, absolutely. what the administrator of nasa said did not try to redefine that essential objective. he was placing his remarks in the context of the speech that president obama made in cairo a year earlier, to create a different set of relationships with 1.57 billion people in the muslim world. sean: that s not what he said. he said his foremost task, this is the administrator of nasa, the foremost task he said the president, was to reach out to the muslim world and engage much more prominently with muslim nations to help them feel good about their contributions to science. what does that have to do with nasa? well what it has to do is creating a different set of relationships with a part of the world that traditionally has not been considered a part