talked about the san bernardino attack, gun control, and isis. she said we are dedefinitely in conflict with isis but she wouldn t say we re at war with isis or radical islam. she explained why on abc s this week. the problem is that that sounds like we are declaring war against a religion. and that to me is number one wrong. there are radicals, people who believe all kinds of things, in every religion in the world. reporter: but most of her republican counterparts have no problem saying we are at war with isis or at war with rad cam islam. yesterday ted cruz released this new ad. he calls it rebuild our military, kill the terrorists. if i m elected to serve as commander in chief, we won t cower in the face of evil. america will lead. we ll rebuild our military. we ll kill the terrorists. and every islamic militant will know, if you wage jihad against us, you re signing your death warrant. meanwhile, the republican frontrunner, donald trump, says he supports profiling muslims
both the fbi and local police were on alert. sure enough two young muslim jihadis showed up with weapons and body armor but were killed by police before they could get inside. immediately the accusations began. organizers had deliberately provoked this attack inviting their own attempted murder. we wanted to put that to our panel. back now, author and lecturer dr. ayaan hirsi ali. dr. zuhdi jasser. author and physician, dr. qanta ahmed. thank you for being ba thank you for being back with us, all of you. doctor let me start with you. democracy as we know it secular democracy, is extremely pro verse and like whatever was labelled in texas, cartoon contest. we can handel that provocation. but democracy is also a tool used by islamists to actually augment islamism. so saying that democracy is a
on the people like me who are born within islam who are saying hey, look there are people individuals among us who are trying to you attack the messenger. and they attack the messenger. we ve seen that done repeatedly. haroon she just accused me of being a medina muslim. this is exactly what i m saying. this is not a serious conversation. if we want to talk about fact the overwhelming majority of american muslims including conservative american muslims are happily integrated. yes, i said it at the beginning there is a threat a radical threat. i m not denying it. i think it would be extremely grossly irresponsible to deny it. i m simply asking is it a great a threat as we think it is? what do you think is the solution to solving the problem of radical islam within the united states? there isn t a problem you just acknowledged there. beyond hold on. i didn t finish. we have isis in all 50 states. i didn t finish what i said. first of all we don t have isis
are bigger provocations to islamic states in saudi arabia and eyea iran. under the guides that do offend muslim and criticize and they can call uz home foebs or whatever they check our american value. forget what we stand for as americans. free speech even if it is offensive, they label it free speech. it is constitutional. you may not like it but it is constitutional. it is a faction of islam that would have that speech shut down. adam gubnich of the new yorker was speaking of the award of courage to survivors and
both but at the same time we should recognize how, how here in the united states do we focus on the problem of radical islam? well, part of the problem is we make these sweeping generalizations about islam that make us less safe. look law enforcement has limited resources. how do they make us less safe? i ll finish the thought. we can t look at everyone. and if we have this idea that every single muslim is suspect, that everyone is secretly an islamist or jihadist we re basically diluting our resources. who says every muslim is a suspect? ayaan does. she regularly conflates muslims with extremists calls for war on islam. she called in an interview in 2007 a war with islam. she said radicalism said it on this show just now, radicalism let me let her respond. she s sitting right here. go ahead, ayaan. i invite this man to read my latest book.