Dershowitz Clashes with CNN Guest After Saying Only Radical Muslims ‘Threaten’ Speech

Alan Dershowitz clashed with a Muslim guest on CNN tonight after arguing that the only group today threatening violence to suppress free speech is radical Muslims. Dershowitz told Don Lemon there’s no real case for Pamela Geller‘s group “inciting” people, because if that was applied, “we would have no free speech [and] you could always, then, by threatening violence, end free speech.”

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh argued that it’s just as important to be concerned with “vitriolic rhetoric that we’re allowing to fly by under the guise of free speech” and asked about the people who might be threatened or targeted because of the rhetoric from Geller and others.

Dershowitz said, “The only people today who are threatening violence against others for expressing political views are radical Muslims.”

The two of them ended up clashing over that statement, with Al-Khatahtbeh calling that “extremely sweeping” and Dershowitz challenging her to “name another group that’s today attacking freedom of speech.”

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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