Thread by @davidfrum

In October 2001, @tomfriedman wrote a powerful column about the many people in the Islamic world who reacted to the 9/11 attacks with a "yes, but" ... nytimes.com/2001/10/05/opi…

@tomfriedman For many years after that -until as recently as the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo - conservative commentators wondered, "where were the moderate imams who would deliver an unequivocal condemnation of terrorism with no buts, no what-abouts, no blame-shifting?" 2/x

And then you read a statement like this in 2021 by @marcorubio and you wonder ... 3/x

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1348277056509980676

@marcorubio Where are the moderate Republican imams? END