so going back to this issue about salman taseer and i think josh's points that we have these categories that are utterly useless. i was there during the taseer assassination and friends of mine who are actually scholars are outraged about the blasphemy law because it's not consistent with islam. you have a country that claims to be a islamic state and the vast majority have no ability to read with comprehensive the koran. so when the u.s. is pursuing this anti-madrassa campaign maybe something else is needed. maybe if pakistan wants to be an islamic state it has a requirement to make sure its citizens know what it means. and it's got to be so bad that even though they oppose the law because it's inconsistent with the koran are absolutely too afraid to say this for fear that their servants or other folks that might be in their environment wouldn't understand the nature of their critique. so i put that out there. we might want to reconsider what's actually driving this. >> thank you, chris. we would welcome others who would like to react to chris' comments to also join us at the microphon

praising once again, the assassin of salman taseer. this has caught a lot of people by surprise, frankly including me. these are supposed to be the so-called good with air quotes muslims. where is this all coming from? these guys are not the ones who are supposed to be the one the taliban soul mates. they are not the taliban soul mates. when we sort of try to put everybody into a convenient box, we ignore the fact that there are a lot more boxes than we recognize. the whole reaction of the pakistani public to the murder, or symmetry. when i was living, looking different than i do now, the way my neighborhoods would have been reading it, not just is it right or wrong for someone advocating the change in the blasphemy laws. who is us and who is them? he's an ordinary pakistani citizen in a lot of people's vision. who are them? salman taseer, international playboy, part of the liberal elite. we in the west see him, i think, rightly so as a brave defender of values that we hold and believe are core to pakistan's identity as envisioned. and