VIDEO : Leading French Civil Liberties Advocate, Yasser Louati, Speaks Out on Western Muslims and Macron - Glenn Greenwald
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Politics without consistently applied principles necessarily degenerates into crude quests for power with the sole objective of benefitting one’s own tribe. Because humans are tribal, effort is always required to determine whether our beliefs are shaped by what we like to believe drive them (just causes, universal values, rigorously applied principles) or whether they are merely the by-product of self-interest and the convenience of the moment. The long-standing and increasingly vitriolic debate in the west over the treatment of French Muslims illustrates that challenge.