How to respond to people who think all Muslims should apologize for the Charlie Hebdo attacks

The host of a popular British radio show added some much-needed to perspective to the debate surrounding last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack.

LBC (Leading Britain’s Conversation) host James O’Brien perfectly and concisely shot down a caller who said although a “very minority group” carried out the terror attacks at the newspaper’s Paris offices, a wider apology “was needed.”

James O’Brien:

Why should Abbas, the last caller, apologize for what these murderers in Paris did?’

Richard:

Well because the alternative is that there is no apology.

James O’Brien:

Have you apologized yet?

Richard:

Apologized for what?

James O’Brien:

The murders in Paris on Wednesday.

Richard:

Why would I need to apologize for that?

James O’Brien:

Why does Abbas? He was in Berkshire.

Richard:

They’re doing it in the name of Islam.

James O’Brien:

Not his Islam. They might have been doing it in the name of Richards, wouldn’t mean it was about you.

Listen to the full exchange in the audio below:

h/t: The INDEPENDENT

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