Cuomo: Reza Aslan ‘Demonstrated What People’ Fear when Thinking About Islam

CNN's Cuomo: Reza Aslan "Demonstrated What People Are Fearful About" When They Think of Islam (RealClearPolitics)

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN: OK. We had a very heated, controversial conversation here this week. So here's how the conversation started. 

We were talking about Bill Maher's show. And Bill Maher made comments about the Muslim world. 

DON LEMON, CNN: He talked about Islam. And he -- and about whether or not it was more violent. Shall we just listen to him? 

CAMEROTA: Let's listen. 

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BILL MAHER, HOST, HBO'S "REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER": If vast numbers of Muslims across the world believe, and they do, that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea, or drawing a cartoon, or writing a book, or eloping with the wrong person, not only does the Muslim world have something in common with ISIS, it has too much in common with ISIS. 

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CAMEROTA: ok. So then we posed those issues to Reza Aslan, who is a Middle East scholar, and asked whether there is something about Muslim countries' form of justice and human rights that is somehow more primitive than other countries. 

LEMON: It got heated. 

CAMEROTA: It did.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: It got primitive.