Bill Maher slams Berkeley protesters: Who said you only had to hear what didn’t upset you?

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38. But 60% of Egyptians do not kill people who leave Islam. Bill was all but equating poll responses

to people who actually commited violent acts over a cartoon they find offensive,, as though the two were the same thing and prevalent throughout Islam--something he backpedaled after challenge to Arab Muslims. That is dishonest--and if it is only Arab Muslims, is his real objection to the religion?


Affleck objected to that kind of broad brush attempt to smear all Muslims with the very small percentage that has acted out and Affleck was right

If you poll evangelicals about whether they think doctors who do abortions deserve to die, you might get an even higher figure than 60%, but only very few evangelicals have killed anyone over abortions, or tried to or even thought about doing that.

Muslims are all over the world, living among all kinds of religions and atheists. They are not engaging in mass murders. And it's not as though they are not being reviled, discrimination against, etc. all over the world. And it's not as though they have no political reasons to be angry about the US. The West has invaded, bombed and occupied their nations for years.

For that matter, even in Muslim nations, even Arab Muslim nations, Jews, Christians, Bahai and others have lived side by side for millenia. Yes, things have gotten worse of late. Hasn't everything? Haven't all kinds of divisions, including those between Democrats and Republicans?

There are problems, yes. Name a modern group of 1.8 billion in which there have been no problems. But to blame it on Islam is to imply that 1.8 billion people share in those problems. They don't.

BTW, attempting to convert someone in Israel is against the law. I am not sure what the penalty is I doubt it's death, but there must be some penalty for vioating the law. So, it is not as though Muslims are unique in not wanting people converted away from their religion.
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