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Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAlef podcast with clips today from Democracy Now, The Young Turks, The David Packen Show, Progressive Faith Sermon with Dr. Roger Ray, The Majority Report, and our national conversation about conversations about race, and featuring activism from the International Rescue Committee.

Let's turn to a clip from a CNN interview on Sunday morning with Yasser Luati from the collective against Islamophobia in France.

CNN anchors John Vose and I should say spent several minutes grilling their guests on the role of the Muslim community in the Paris attacks.

It seems to me that this was a pretty big plan. Surely someone beyond the seven guys who were being killed over the last 48 hours would have to know something, and that was probably within the Muslim community, but yet no one said anything.

Sir, the Muslim community has nothing to do with these guys. Nothing. We cannot justify ourselves for the actions of someone who just claims to be Muslim.

The secret services, new bodies, and again, just like during the January attacks, it turned out they were all on a blacklist, somewhere on a desk.

So right now we can't take responsibility for anything. Right now, what is the responsibility within the Muslim-the French nation and the sick?

Sure. Sorry, sorry to interrupt, yes, but what is the responsibility within the Muslim community to identify what is happening within their own ranks when it comes to people who are obviously training and preparing to carry out mass murder?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, they were not from our ranks. If they were trained, they were trained abroad, and what these terrorists are blaming our country for is for its failed foreign policy.

When the interview concluded with Luati, the anchors, John Vose and I should say, had this discussion.

You know, I'm yet to hear the condemnation from the Muslim community on this.

I mean, again, the point he's making is it's not our fault, but the fact of the matter is when these things happen, the finger blame is pointed at the Muslim community.

And so you have to be preemptive. It's coming from the community. You've got to stand in the way responsibility comes from our community.

Yeah, it just comes to mind. You can't share that.

That was CNN Glenn Greenwald, your Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Can you talk about what they said and how they treated this Muslim civil rights activist in Paris?

Honestly, that interview is so despicable that it almost leaves me speechless. I think that's probably the 10th of the time I've heard it.

And it's still actually hard to believe that any human beings, little and people calling themselves journalists, would say any of the horrific things that they said.

I mean, I know Yasser. I mean, he's a, he's, you know, he's a civil rights activist in Paris. He's very smart. He's very educated. He's very savvy about the law and about politics.

And so to go on and essentially accuse him of bearing responsibility for terrorist attacks because he's Muslim and the people who did it are Muslim, I mean, it's so reprehensible.

You know, I was thinking about. I was thinking about after Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City building. If they had brought on white Christian male minister after minister and saying he is from your ranks, what do you say?

Yeah, or imagine if they, you know, if they did a story on the Israeli who went to the gay and lesbian pride parade in Jerusalem a couple months ago and stabbed six people and then every time they had a Jewish guest on, they said, why didn't you Jews who obviously knew about this, do anything to stop it and why aren't you as Jews condemning this and you bear responsibility?

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