Clinton jokes about where he’ll live in ’16

Former President Bill Clinton was ready with a joke when asked about his 2016 plans on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Wednesday night. 

“Do you think you might live in a different house in 2016?” Meyers asked. 

{mosads}”I hope not because 2016’s the election year, and I don’t have any place to move,” Clinton replied with a laugh.

He offered no further light on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emerging plans for a campaign.

Joking aside, some of the interview did delve into the response to the recent terror attacks in Paris.

Asked about finger-pointing at Islam after the attacks, Clinton said, “I agree that Muslim leaders have to do more to combat the extremists, but I don’t think that you can blame the religion.”

“These people are politicians, guerrillas, stone-cold killers. They just are throwing the religion out to try to lure more and more converts in and legitimizing cold-blooded murder,” he added.

He pointed to the response to last month’s Taliban killings at a school in Pakistan as an example.

“Finally, you had people in the society saying, ‘We’ve got to go after these people, and we’ve got to stop letting them pretend that they’re speaking in the name of religion,’ ” Clinton said.

“It’ll only be heard by the people who are the targets of the recruitment if they are Muslim leaders,” he said.

Speaking of Islamic extremism, he said, “I think it can be rooted out if and only if the modernizing Muslims, the Arab Emirates for example, Oman, which has tried to be a force in moving away from this, will do what they should do.”

He praised the presence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the march in Paris in response to the attacks. 

“I think the fact that the Palestinian President, Mr. Abbas, came and marched in that parade was a big deal and was willing to do it with the Israeli Prime Minister with all their deep political differences,” he said. 

After reports of a massacre by Islamic militants in Nigeria, Clinton said he is “hopeful” for an “ongoing, consistent response about Boko Haram.”