From: Sultan Bin Sulayem Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:40 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Let's be honest, Islam has a problem right now Please scroll down or Fareed Zakaria's latest Washington post Let's be honest, Islam has a problem right now By Fareed Zakaria, Thursday, October 9, 2014 The Washington Post When television host Bill Maher declares on his weekly show that "th= Muslim world ... has too much in common with ISIS =9D and guest Sam Harris says that Islam is "the mother lode of bad i=eas," I understand why people are upset. Maher and Harris, an autho=, made crude simplifications and exaggerations. And yet, they were also tal=ing about something real. I know the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. 1= has a following of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India h=ve hundreds of millions of Muslims who don't fit these caricatures.=That's why Maher and Harris are guilty of gross generalizations. Bu= let's be honest. Islam has a problem today. The places that have t=ouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately M=slim. In 2013, of the top 10 groups that perpetrated terrorist attacks, seven were=Muslim. Of the top 10 countries where terrorist attacks took place, seven w=re Muslim-majority. The Pew Research Center rates countries on the level of-restrictions that governments impose on the free exercise of religion. Of t=e 24 most restrictive countries, 19 are Muslim-majority. Of the 21 countrie= that have laws against apostasy, all have Muslim majorities. There is a cancer of extremism within Islam today. A small minority of Musli=s celebrates violence and intolerance and harbors deeply reactionary attitu=es toward women and minorities. While some confront these extremists, not e=ough do so, and the protests are not loud enough. How many mass rallies hav= been held against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the Arab world=today? The caveat, "Islam today," i