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Rosaleen tallon, whose brother died at ground zero. and bruce feiler. let me start off with you, fareed. it does sound like he s saying it sounds like there are talks or they are open to the idea of moving this if they can find some sort of, basically, face-saving gesture. did you read that? i did read it that way. and i think what he was trying to say, what the imam was trying to say is that he is trying to be sensitive to the issue of how this will play. and i think it is true, if you read the press around the world, not just in the muslim world, by the way, but around the world it is being seen as a test of america s freedom of religion on one hand and, you know, the sensitivity of people who don t want mosques, and it is part of a larger debate about islam in america. do you think it is a national security issue now, as he says ....
More about why this is not the image you have or many people have of islam, but in fact they have a very different image of islam. and to do that, i want to bring in michael kromarty, the vice president of ethics and public policy center. he is a senior adviser to the pugh forum on religious life and professor of religion. michael, thank you for being with us. tell me this. why is islam, certainly in america, not regarded by the mainstream as a religion that is a cousin to christianity or judaism and has so much more in common with them than not? well, i think the reason for that is simply that modern islam in america has a pr problem. clearly, from, you know, your own show, you can see here that americans have many diverse views of what islam is. the reason for that is simply this. islam is a very diverse place. i mean, it is about as diverse ....
Right permit. but they do now. he said apparently here s a picture from, i think, the new york post. apparently and what is interesting about that picture is the men are in the front, the women are way in the back. and according to one of the young women who gave the tour, apparently a lot of n.y.u. students use it between the hours of 1:00 in the afternoon and 10:00 at night. it s still active. the imam says he sees attention as a sign of success where islam in america and he says the u.s. constitution gives more rights to muslims and is more in line with the koran than most muslim nations. let s see what he has to say when he comes back. let s see if there s going to be some kind of compromise. clearly yesterday, it was off the charts. a lot of people are hoping they don t build it there. e-mail us right now. what do you think? given the rhetoric from both sides, do you think they ....
The most chaotic, out of control, and wasteful elements of washington pork. every government program, every layer of bureaucracy is eternal. until, of course, one day the whole system goes bankrupt and comes crashing down. on the program today, we ll start with the economy. just how bad is the outlook? i will ask a top economist, jeffrey sachs, who has some very interesting views on the topic. next, is the wild weather around the world evidence of global warming? that s what i wanted to know. so i ve brought together a great panel with jeff sachs and two climate scientists to tell me what they re seeing. then, what s islam all about? especially islam in america. it s a question many are asking in light of the controversy at ground zero. we will answer it with two terrific guests today. and finally, which oddball dictator is trying to pay off some of his debt with an herb instead of cold, hard cash? and also, a victory for both nicolas sarkozy and napoleon ....
Manji. hirsi ali was collaborating with the dutch filmmaker theo van gogh on a film critical of islam, highly critical of islam, when van gogh was assassinated in 2004. the killer pinned a note to van gogh s chest that threatened the life of ayaan hirsi ali. she continues to live with security today. she s just published a book, nomad, about her journey from somalia to america and her simultaneous journey from being a devout muslim to denouncing islam entirely. irshad manji is a liberal feminist muslim working to reform islam from within. she has been described as osama bin laden s worst nightmare. the two talked about the problems with islam and the solutions. welcome, both of you. thank you. ayaan, in your book one of the things you worry a lot about is muslims in america and the growing radicalization of islam in america. ....