generally and make assumptions that you can t about other communities. i m not upset by the satire. i m all for free speech, even offensive speech. let me play the devil s advocate, though. chinese americans didn t threaten jihad. the counterpoint is they re going to be made fun of or they are subject to critique because of this present violent cloud around some strains of the muslim faith, or some people who profess to be jihadists pushing forward the muslim faith. that s the one side of the conversation. many folks in the muslim world believe, and not without reason, that america actively inhibits their freedom of speech. we ve actively prevented the exercise of freedom of speech for hundreds of millions of people for years and years and years. we re arming dictators. that s taking away people s freedom of speech. that s killing them in the streets. so what s the difference? well, christopher, when you talk about the role that muslim
americans the sort of i won t say third rail. the faith, the muslim faith at this moment in america is i mean there s so much debate around what constitutes an accurate representation of muslim faith, who the right ambassadors are for it. for pen to choose this moment to celebrate charlie hebdo, is that not directly sticking an eye into the sort of face of political correctness, and is that the point? i don t think it s the point. but pen is an organization that is dedicated to free expression. and it is a fact even if it s an uncomfortable fact that one of the threats in the world today to free expression is a particular strain of extreme radical islam that wants to prevent expressions that they view as blasphemous. and the people who targeted charlie hebdo were not targeting them because they felt that they had offended this impoverished muslim minority in
he went to the u.s. with his mom. he went to high school in salt lake city. and went on to the university of utah and that s where things went south for him. but essentially kept in touch with his network of friends here until right to the very end when he dropped out of college and then things went south. a good smart kid to begin with in high school. let me follow up on that. so he was in touch with folks on the ground in pakistan until recently? reporter: he was in touch with folks on the ground until things went south for him in college. he dropped out, never finished his dental degree. had a child out of wedlock. spoke to friends, told them he was struggling. the friends of his who he spoke to said that they over the years kept track through social media and saw his posts about islam become more and more radicalized, something which didn t happen while he was in
anywhere frankly tend to be. he according to his friend never attended friday prayers at school which was pretty mandatory for most of the muslim kids. but he never attended those prayers. stuff like that. it wasn t there. his friends who were in touch with him tell us very interestingly, that when things broke down economically for him, he had to support his child out of wedlock, his brother went into a juvenile facility. that s when he opted for this version of islam. and that s when he lost touch with most of the people on the ground there. and we have no sense of you talk about the radical strain of islam that he became more involved in. we have no sense of sort of where that was coming from?
change egypt specifically, as the muslim brotherhood, who already has been in control of parliament until it was dissolved six months took the entire six months of their rule in parliament to deal with social issues and went much, much stronger towards sharia, islamic law in terms of what women could wear and what could happen in the country and so many egyptians fear a president morsi would be an islamist state in what is the mother of the arab world. eric. eric: leland will be standing by for the latest when the final results come in, thank you very much. so, what does it mean if egypt has an islamist president? now we are joined from jerusalem the former chief of staff to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. welcome again, and what is your reaction if he pulls it out today? well it would mean this arab spring is turning rapidly into a muslim winter. we have to understand that iran has been the extreme radical