Fareed Zakaria Calls Out Rupert Murdoch Over Paris Terrorism Comments

CNN's Fareed Zakaria sat down with HuffPost Live at Davos on Wednesday, where he called out Rupert Murdoch for his comments on the recent terror attacks in Paris.

"I think it was outrageous to claim that moderate Muslims, or Muslims in general, are responsible for the attacks," Zakaria said. "If you had a significant portion of the Muslim world up in arms against the West... we'd have a lot of attacks every day."

"We're talking about a small number," Zakaria added.

Tweeting after the terror attacks in France that left 20 dead, Murdoch said Muslims must "recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer," and "they must be held responsible."

"We don't hold Rupert Murdoch responsible for every crazy, radical, quasi-fascist statement made by a television host -- oh, wait a minute, I guess we do in the case of Rupert Murdoch because he hires most of them," Zakaria joked.

Zakaria pointed out the hypocrisy of Murdoch's comment.

"He has no responsibility for the hacking scandal that was done by his employees, but yet Muslims in Indonesia who are moderate are somehow responsible for what some guy in France does," Zakaria said.

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Oldest Newest Share + Today 6:48 AM ESTAnne-Marie Slaughter: The U.S. Needed To Be 'Front And Center' In Paris

New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter talks with HuffPost Live about how surprised she was that the U.S. didn't send a higher-ranking official to the Paris unity march.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:42 AM ESTGuilherme Leal's Fight To Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Guilherme Leal, Co-chairman of the board of directors of Natura Cosmeticos, talks about the B-Team's efforts on climate justice.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:35 AM ESTAbousteit: More Women At Davos, Please

Abousteit said she thinks there should be more women at Davos.

"I just think there should be a very hard quota, 50/50, to make sure there's enough women there," she said. "[Davos should] also give women a chance who are not in that position yet, that they couldn't get to because there is a glass ceiling... give them a chance to get more visibility."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:31 AM EST'It's Not About The Saving'

Abousteit said making clothes isn't about saving money.

"It's not about the saving," she said. "It's about doing something that makes you happy."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:30 AM ESTNora Abousteit: Being Passionate About Work Makes It Easier To Get Through Hard Times

Nora Abousteit advocated for doing a job that you love.

"I studied what my passion was... but then I saw an opportunity at work that made my heart beat faster, and I pursued that, and it was always about a gut feeling," she said.

She said working in a field she's passionate about makes it easier to get through hard times.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:28 AM ESTNora Abousteit Knitted The Sweater She's Wearing At Davos

Nora Abousteit, founder and CEO of Kollabora and the Kollaborator Network, said her company helps people "start making."

Abousteit said she knitted the sweater she wore on HuffPost Live while she was on her honeymoon.

Abousteit she grew up crafting, knitting with her mother and welding with her father. She said she saw growth in people wanting to know the origins of their products and wanting the experience of production, which is what inspired her company.

"I realized there was a lot of potential, because a lot of young people were staring to make things," she said.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 6:18 AM ESTSuzanne DiBianca: Giving Back Should Be A Core Part Of All Companies' DNA

Salesforce Foundation President & Co-Founder Suzanne DiBianca talks about the success of her company's commitment to public service.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:52 AM ESTHow InvestKL Has (Or Hasn't) Been Impacted By The News

Amanshah noted that InvestKL's goal is to get 100 companies to invest in Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley by 2020, and they're "just under halfway." He said this is a signal the business opportunities in Kuala Lumpur haven't been negatively impacted by the recent crises like the December AirAsia plane crash and the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

"In terms of impact on tourism, yes, perhaps [the planes had an impact], because people are human and they are all touched by such instances," he said.

"The investors look at the fundamentals of the opportunities," he added.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:47 AM ESTZainal Amanshah On InvestKL's Goals

InvestKL CEO Zainal Amanshah spoke to HuffPost Live at Davos about the goals for his company, which aims to get other companies to invest in Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley.

While Amansha said traditional markets "are still of prime interest" to InvestKL, he said he hopes to branch out.

"We want to do better in our neighboring countries like China, India, perhaps even Indonesia... and we want to continue attracting companies that have high technology," he said. "We've moved up the value chain now."

"Substance is very important to us as opposed to numbers of companies," he added.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:34 AM ESTThe B-Team's Challenge

Guilherme Leal said the B-Team is issuing a challenge to companies to help eliminate greenhouse emissions and fight for climate justice.

"As a B-team group, we are challenging [companies] to reach a net zero greenhouse emission by 2050, because we want to take the leadership," Leal said. "We know that many companies will not reach this net zero emission [by 2050], but some of them need to reach it before the end of the century. If [they don't], we're facing many problems"

Leal said to get to net zero greenhouse emissions, all sectors need to be involved.

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Guilherme Leal, co-chairman of the board of directors of Natura Cosmetics, on HuffPost Live at Davos

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:20 AM ESTAnstey On A 'Very Simple But A Very Powerful Idea'

Anstey said she is helping raise awareness about girls in Africa who must walk 6 kilometers go get to school each day by having Davos participants wear Fitbits.

"I think it was a very simple but a very powerful idea," she said.

Anstey said the goal is to give bikes to the students in Africa in order to make their daily commute a lot easier.

"We've challenged Davos participants to walk 6 km during their three-day stay we're recording how far they walk," Anstey said, noting that some children in Africa must walk that distance in one day to get to school.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:18 AM ESTAnstey: 'We Have To Embrace' Public-Private Partnerships

Anstey spoke on impact investing and how it can be fostered by public-private partnerships.

"Impact investing, which is creating bonds, creating financial instruments to help the private sector come in and finance those things but finance them against the provision of results... I think is a very interesting concept, and I think these public-private partnership are going to be even more important for low-carbon growth, sustainable cities," she said.

"We tend as a society to have this divide between private and public," Anstey added. "We have to now recognize that, saying people can do well and do good... it something we have to embrace."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:15 AM ESTCaroline Anstey: Millennials Aren't Waiting To Decide On A Legacy

Caroline Anstey, Global Head of UBS and Society, on HuffPost Live at Davos, said it's promising that younger people are wanting to invest in issues they care about as they grow, rather than waiting until old age to decide on what their legacy might be.

"The millennials are making it clear they want to invest alongside their values," she said. "Younger people are saying, 'I want my investments to reflect my beliefs, I want my workplace to reflect my beliefs,' and I think there is a big potential... to direct that."

Anstey said "despite all the gloom and doom," it's "very exciting" that people are looking to contribute to global issues.

"Imagine if you get 1, 2 percent of that money going into impact investing," Anstey added, noting that could mean billions of dollars going toward different causes.

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Caroline Anstey, Global Head of UBS and Society, on HuffPost Live at Davos

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:05 AM ESTSlaughter On What Democrats Need To Do

Slaughter shared her thoughts on what Democrats need to do to get ahead in 2016.

"I think the Democrats have to be focused less on specific interest groups and specific issues and much more on a government that delivers," she said. "It's more the millennial, tech mentality of, deliver the services first."

"Show people that government can deliver, and show people other parts of government are listening and watching," she added.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 5:01 AM ESTSlaughter On Syria

Slaughter criticized the Obama administration for not holding "an intervention to save as many Syrian lives as possible." She said the U.S. has focused too much on politics and not enough on people.

"I approve a lot of what the Obama administration has done... I approve of the way they handled Ukraine," she said. "With Syria, honestly, there was an intervention you could have made three years ago that would have avoided a huge amount, including the rise of ISIS."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:59 AM ESTSlaughter: U.S. Absence In Paris Confirms Unfortunate Obama Narrative

Anne-Marie Slaughter said she thought the U.S. was wrong not to send a more high-profile official to a unity march to honor the victims of the recent terror attacks in Paris.

"I just couldn't believe that the United States was not front and center in that march. Yes, it's optics, but it was a moment in which the world came together to stand for [what are] certainly American values," she said.

"[U.S.] leadership would have been better advised to be front and center," Slaughter added. "I thought that was not only a moment missed, but it confirmed a narrative the Obama administration does not want confirmed, which is, you're not there."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:56 AM ESTHow the Future of Work May Make Many of Us Happier

Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America, writes on HuffPost:

We're headed towards a dramatically different economy in which most workers will be independent contractors. Freelancers will work on demand for whoever needs their services rather than for fixed periods of time for a single employer.

As The Economist describes, workers will be on a platform that matches them with customers and provides verification, security and payment systems. This is the world of Uber and will increasingly be the world of just about everything: handyman services, cooking, laundry, shopping, scheduling, personal training, coding, doctoring, lawyering, bossing and creating everything from television ads to Ebola suits. As these services spread, they will create the "on-demand economy" or the "platform economy."

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Bassim Haidar on HuffPost Live at Davos

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:44 AM ESTHaidar: When You Buy A Smartphone, 'You've Already Put Yourself On A List'

Haidar said consumers who aren't doing anything illegal shouldn't be worried about having personal devices like cell phones monitored.

"When you buy a smartphone, you've already put yourself on a list of someone wanting to watch your behavior," Haidar said. "You'll never be able to run away from this."

"Everything is commercialized, and therefore as a consumer, you must be very aware of this, and maybe accept it," Haidar added.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:40 AM ESTHaidar On The Effect Of Boko Haram

Haidar said Boko Haram is "affecting certain parts" of his business, noting "there's a whole region that we can never go to anymore."

"What's happening is an outflow of people coming down, more south, causing more and more concentration with more infrastructure, that's also putting a lot of pressure on living standards... so yes it has an affect," he said.

"The region where Boko Haram's operating are extremely brutal areas," he said.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:38 AM ESTBassim Haidar: 'Get Out Of The Living Room' And Go Experience A New Place

"Get out of the living room where you have a view of the world from a TV box, and go out there," Haidar said. "It's very easy for us to judge countries and cultures and people without actually being there, because of what we hear all the time."

"Living in Nigeria has a very, very different culture to Ethopia, or the other side," Haidar said. "The approach was, let's go there... speak to the people, speak to the bankers, and try to understand what this market needs."

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:37 AM ESTBassim Haidar On His Struggles Starting Out

Bassim Haidar, founder, chairman and CEO of Channel IT Group, spoke about the struggles he experienced when starting his company.

"It was a very simple thing: how do I get people outside this area to communicate using the infrastructure that is here? That was the first thing I did, and it was very, very successful," Haidar said.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:24 AM ESTDiBianca On Workplace Community Service As A 'Retention Tool'

DiBianca said employees at her company, who get six days each year for community service, have given "incredible" feedback about the company's values of giving back, with many telling the leaders of the company the community service is a good "retention tool."

"It's really important that we not only attract the best employees, but we keep them," she said.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 4:20 AM ESTSuzanne DiBianca On Giving Back

Suzanne DiBianca, president and co-founder of Salesforce Foundation, spoke with HuffPost Live at Davos on Thursday about incorporating public service into her company.

"When we started the company in 2000, we said we wanted to be a new kind of business," DiBianca said.

"We said, we're going to not wait until we reach some level of more comfortable success, we're going to make giving back part of our DNA from the beginning," she added.

DiBianca said it's a "return to values" and not something new that's prompting more companies to give back. She also said she thinks "the proliferation of the internet economy" is encouraging more people to incorporate philanthropy into their business model.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 3:39 AM ESTWeymouth Happy With Bezos At The Post

When asked about "titans of tech" taking on more prominent roles in the media industry, Weymouth said she's been happy since Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, purchased the Washington Post.

"In the Besos case, at least so far, I think the Post is thriving which I'm very happy about," Weymouth said. "I am, of course, a member of the family... so we really want to see the paper thrive."

"I think it's great for the journalists, it's great for the institution and great for the paper," she added.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 3:37 AM ESTWeymouth: Private Industry Could Be Vulnerable To Cyberattacks

Weymouth spoke on the dangers of cyberattacks and hacking on the private sector.

"I think private industry has actually been the victim of the latest cyberattack, in the sense of Sony," she said.

She said a friend of hers that works at Sony said "they actually melted down the hard drives of the computers."

"What other private sectors, the banking sectors? What other private sectors are the foreigners going to attack next?" Weymouth said.

"I think it's a frightening, alarming thing for all American cities," Weymouth added, saying many could be worried about what would happen if their bank was hacked.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 3:34 AM ESTWeymouth Throws Support Behind Obama

Weymouth said she supports U.S. President Barack Obama's plans on dealing with the Islamic State.

"I thought the president's goal to degrade and destroy ISIS is the right, correct goal. And the question is, how do you do that?" Weymouth said.

Share this: Tweet Share tumblr Share + Today 3:33 AM ESTWeymouth On ISIS: 'It's Just Horrifying'

Speaking on the rise of the Islamic State, Weymouth said the situation is "horrifying."

"It's just horrifying, as you know from watching it day by day, I think we've never seen anything like ISIS that kills people, kills kids for singing songs, it's just horrible," she said.

Weymouth said she interviewed the president of Turkey while at Davos and offered insight into how he feels about the situation.

"Turkey believes the U.S. should have two aims -- to defeat President Assad, to remove him from power, and to defeat ISIS," she said.

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