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Related: About this forumMaher 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.
Sopkoviak
(357 posts)Cute Bill, real cute.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Was he just making a joke?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)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)It is not a religious problem, it is an educational problem.
Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's an educational problem in the sense that specific religious education is the problem.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)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.