The perfect response to people who say all Muslims are violent, in one tweet

[LostOne4Ever]

78. And he was talking about the people who were making DEATH THREATS at SOUTH PARK for mocking Mohammad

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Go back and watch 2:34 to the same point. He was specifically asked about that. He was not talking about all Muslims, but about those who put fatwas on cartoonists.

Cooper:"On your show last week you took on the Islamic radicals who made threats on the Creators of South park. Im gonna show our viewers some of what you said:"

Clip

Cooper: "Why is Islam the one religion about so many in America and the West censor themselves when it comes to talking about or making fun of? Is it just fear?"

At 3:45

And they don't. You know, yes we do have religious nuts in this country. There was a cleric in Iran who recently said that earthquakes were caused by slutty women. Well, Pat Robertson once said abortions caused hurricanes, I think. The difference being Pat Robertson doesn't have the power to cut your arms off.

The link you gave continues to do exactly what the article in your OP does: completely distort to outright lying about what maher said.

Example:

“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.”

This ability to project a broad generalization onto more than 1 billion people, we’ve seen from Maher before. In a 2011 interview with Anderson Cooper, Maher claims this about Muslims:

Vast number does not equal all. Yet that is what the article tries to say. Maher is directly talking about the people in countries like Egypt where 63% of the people think apostates deserve to be put to death.

http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf

Pg 55

Compared with attitudes toward applying sharia in the domestic or criminal spheres,
Muslims in the countries surveyed are significantly less supportive of the death
penalty for converts.19 Nevertheless, in six of the 20 countries where there are adequate
samples for analysis, at least half of those who favor making Islamic law the official law also
support executing apostates.Taking the life of those who abandon Islam is
most widely supported in Egypt (86%) and Jordan (82%). Roughly two-thirds who want
sharia to be the law of the land also back this penalty in the Palestinian territories (66%). In
the other countries surveyed in the Middle East-North Africa region, fewer than half take
this view.

In the South Asian countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, strong majorities of those who
favor making Islamic law the official law of the land also approve of executing apostates (79%
and 76%, respectively). However, in Bangladesh far fewer (44%) share this view. A majority of Malaysian Muslims (62%) who want to see sharia as their country’s official law also support taking the lives of those who convert to other faiths. But fewer take this position in neighboring Thailand (27%) and Indonesia (18%).

Egypt, alone, has a population of 86 million, 90% of which are Muslim. That means 48 million people think apostates should be killed. That is a pretty vast number before adding in all the other countries as well.