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rug

(82,333 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 02:11 PM Sep 2014

Maher Rips Liberals: If We're Giving No Quarter To Intolerance, Shouldn't We Start With Honor Kilers

Posted on September 27, 2014

BILL MAHER: President Obama keeps insisting that's ISIS is not Islamic. Well, maybe they don't practice the Muslim faith the same way he does, but if vast numbers of Muslims across the world believe, and they do, that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea or drawing a cartoon or writing a book or eloping with the wrong person, not only does the Muslim world have something in common with ISIS, it has too much in common with ISIS.

There's so much talk -- you can applaud -- there's so much talk about wiping out ISIS. You can't, not with bombs. You can only expose that something is a bad idea like extended warranties. Cultures are different. It's okay to judge that rule of law isn't just different than theocracy, it's better. If you don't see that, you're either a religious fanatic or a masochist, but one thing you certainly are not is a liberal.

To count yourself as a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. Free speech, separation of church and state, freedom to practice any religion or no religion without the threat of violence. Respect for minorities including homosexuals, equality for women. It amazes me how here in America we go nuts over the tiniest violations of these values while gross atrocities are ignored across the world.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/27/maher_rips_liberals_over_islam_if_were_giving_no_quarter_to_intolerance_shouldnt_we_start_with_honor_killers.html

6:00 video at link.

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Maher Rips Liberals: If We're Giving No Quarter To Intolerance, Shouldn't We Start With Honor Kilers (Original Post) rug Sep 2014 OP
"They don't practice the Muslim faith the same way he does"? Sopkoviak Sep 2014 #1
That made me really wonder what his intent was here. cbayer Sep 2014 #6
Makes sense to me! arcane1 Sep 2014 #2
Bill is unhinged when in comes to Islam, seriously. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Sep 2014 #4
If you behead people for breaking religious rules, that's a religion problem. arcane1 Sep 2014 #5
Between his rather extreme islamophobia and his saying that if you are an atheist cbayer Sep 2014 #7
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. Makes sense to me!
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 02:23 PM
Sep 2014

Too often on the left, the desire to avoid similarity to the rampant bigotry coming from the right is to avoid any criticism whatsoever. I've seen it more than once on Bill's own show.

There is nothing wrong with saying, for example, that women are treated better in the U.S. than they are in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Bill is unhinged when in comes to Islam, seriously.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 02:32 PM
Sep 2014

It is not a religious problem, it is an educational problem.

Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
5. If you behead people for breaking religious rules, that's a religion problem.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 02:55 PM
Sep 2014

It's an educational problem in the sense that specific religious education is the problem.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
7. Between his rather extreme islamophobia and his saying that if you are an atheist
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 10:58 AM
Sep 2014

you should be attacking religion, he really loses all credibility with me when it comes to religion.

Plus he seems to think that his flavor of sexism is ok, while others are not.

Hypocrite.

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