Ever since September 11, 2001 there has been a real angst among Westerners on how to view Muslims and their religion Islam. The right generally has condemned Islam and it's adherents, Muslims, regardless of what any one individual Muslim did. The left generally took a more tolerant view, that we cannot blame every Muslim because of what SOME other Muslims do, violent acts.
I remember even President George W. Bush going out of his way to try and make sure every Muslim was not held accountable for the acts of violent Muslims and he said Islam is generally a religion of peace.
More recently we had the October 3 conversation between Bill Maher, Sam Harris and Ben Affleck on Bill Maher's Real Time HBO show.
Ben Affleck vs. Bill Maher
It demonstrated that even on the left there is not uniformity in belief toward how we should view Muslims and their religion Islam.
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