MSNBC Guest: In Europe, ‘Extreme Right’ Exacerbates Conflict with Muslims

MSNBC Guest: In Europe, ‘Extreme Right’ Exacerbates Conflict with Muslims (NewsBusters)

On the day that 12 people were murdered after publishing satirical cartoons about Islam, Daily Beast foreign editor Christopher Dickey on Wednesday fretted about how the "extreme right" of Europe played a role in increasing the conflict with Muslims. Appearing on MSNBC, he lectured Andrea Mitchell: "Most of the Muslims who are in France, who are in Europe, came here searching for more freedom. Not less. They don't want to impose Islam on the rest of the world." 

Dickey, a longtime Newsweek columnist, worried, "What you have, to some extent with the extreme right here, certainly with the extreme right in Germany...certainly the extreme right in the Netherlands and other parts of the world, with all parts of Europe, is this line that 'because Muslims are intolerant, we cannot tolerate Muslims.'"