Liberal Americans see as un-American doing at home what the US does abroad.
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Asma Barlas is a retired professor of politics in New York.
Liberal Americans see as un-American doing at home what the US does abroad.
Is Islam really against free speech? And does France really suffer from ‘Islamist separatism’, as Macron has charged?
It is about using speech to reaffirm domination.