Presidents Bush and Obama have made a habit of declaring Islam to be “a religion of peace” and offering similar statements of a generic kind. Do such pronouncements constitute salutary public discourse? Meaningless pabulum? Outright falsehood? Elliott Abrams and Shadi Hamid, both former Bush-administration officials, debate the question. (Audio, about two hours).
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