Liberal Americans see as un-American doing at home what the US does abroad.
![US President Donald Trump gestures at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by the Congress, in Washington on January 6, 2021 [Reuters/Jim Bourg]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2021-01-06T183507Z_1558865667_RC2I2L9MH0CO_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Asma Barlas is a retired professor of politics in New York.
Liberal Americans see as un-American doing at home what the US does abroad.
![US President Donald Trump gestures at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by the Congress, in Washington on January 6, 2021 [Reuters/Jim Bourg]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2021-01-06T183507Z_1558865667_RC2I2L9MH0CO_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Is Islam really against free speech? And does France really suffer from ‘Islamist separatism’, as Macron has charged?
![A Palestinian woman walks past an anti-French President Emmanuel Macron mural painted by an artist to protest against the publications of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in France and Macron's comments, in Gaza City, October 28, 2020. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/youtube-image.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It is about using speech to reaffirm domination.
