Muslims: Why They Hate Us...

Fareed Makes A Pretty Good Point

But misses something too...

Fareed is mostly correct, it is politics not theology that is at the root of Islamic terrorism.  And it is important to remember that moderate and modern Muslims are overwhelmingly on the receiving end of Islamic terror (and we should be recognizing that and helping them fight against this threat). To battle Islamic terror you need Islamic allies in that battle.  

Pretending Islamic theology is not part of the problem also misses the point (even Fareed has noted it in the past). While human nature (both good and bad) is pretty much universal, cultures are not.  There are fundamental differences between Islam and other faiths that allows it to be highjacked toward terrorism and extremism. 

Fareed disagreed with Bill Maher about Islam, but he also works with Bill Maher over at Vice. 

Politico: The Wrongs of Fareed Zakaria

What was he thinking: Fareed Zakaria, Serial Plagiarist?

Fareed Zakaria gets busted for plagiarism again

As Ed Driscoll notes, Zakaria is accused of lifting whole paragraphs in his best seller (that Barack Obama liked and promoted). 

Wombat : Megan McArdle
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Update:
CNN should start its layoffs with Serial Plagiarists
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Say it aint so Fareed! CNN suspends Zakaria for plagiarism...

Zakaria has always been sanctimonious...

The Los Angeles Times reports:

In the column, Zakaria alluded to the recent shootings at a Colorado movie theater and a Wisconsin Sikh temple, but the rest appeared to be borrowed heavily and without attribution from an April 22 New Yorker article about guns in America by Jill Lepore. For example, Zakaria cited the same striking gun statistics from Yemen and Switzerland that Lepore used. 

“We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s Time column, for which he has apologized," CNN said in a statement. "He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on the same issue which included similar unattributed excerpts. That blog post has been removed and CNN has suspended Fareed Zakaria while this matter is under review.” Time, which is owned by the same corporate parent as CNN, said it was also suspending Zakaria, for a month.

In his own statement Friday, Zakaria wrote: "Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."

Credit where credit is due: "Questions about the Zakaria column were first raised by Tim Graham, a writer for the conservative website Newsbusters.org, which is dedicated to 'exposing & combating liberal media bias.'"

Smitty unleashes the snark!   This story has a very high Schadenfreude factor!

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— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) August 10, 2012

I mean, really -- one column a week, and you can't be bothered to write it yourself?
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