Charlie Hebdo: Why I'm optimistic and what the media isn't saying

Irshad Manji has a very different interpretation of the shooting at Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper based in Paris. She tells us why she's optimistic even in the face of so much fear.

Many French Muslims "feel systemically excluded from the ability to express all that they are."

"You're not making an effort to look for where the hope is. When good Muslims say and do good things, which we expect them to do, they of course are not going to make news. It's those who engage in sensational acts, such as bombings, beheadings and shootings, who make news. And so we end up having a very lopsided picture of what Muslims are about."

Young Muslims are saying, "I am offended by the cartoons, but I am even more offended by the violence that is being committed in the name of our faith."

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