>>>I didn't know many of these facts:
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>>>http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-pernicious-myth-of-the-oppressed-european-muslim/
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>>A narrative popularized by liberal pols and pundits is that the Belgian and French terrorists were mistreated and alienated by the native population, and that’s why they lashed out in violence. It’s a pernicious lie.
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>>It's hard for me to understand how anyone would pay attention to some who starts an article with this paragraph.
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>>I follow some "liberal pols".. and a few pundits.. haven't heard this once.
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>Would you please give this foreigner the difference between pundit and b>scientist? The translation for the first we use only in an ancient context.

pundit != scientist, at least as I used it

In today's US parlance a pundit is someone who is paid a lot of money to talk about something.
In general there is a negative correlation between the amount of money paid and the amount of valuable information conveyed.