Bill Maher on Islam spat with Ben Affleck: “We’re liberals! We’re not crazy tea-baggers”

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5. I understand what he's saying and where he's coming from,

but I think he needs to do more to differentiate between the customs and governments of some Muslim-dominant countries - which admittedly are abysmal - and Muslims in general. There are somewhere between 1.5 and 2 billion Muslims in the world, and their personal beliefs and feelings run the gamut between hard-core Fundamentalist ISIS types to almost 100% secular, like a lot of us lapsed Christians, and my guess is that's even within those very conservative countries, although, of course, they can't speak freely because of their country's laws. Remember, of course, those Christian Ugandans who wanted the death penalty for gay people.

It's not hard to imagine that a modern American Muslim, for example, might take offense at what seems to be Bill's generalizations about their religion. The Qu'ran is no more violent than the Bible, and most Muslims who live in modern, free countries are no more crazy or radical than anyone else.