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

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114. He does while at the same time othering American Muslims.

But his rabid defense of post-9/11 liberalism is what Maher brandishes as an excuse when accused of Islamophobia. He is consistently trumpeting a false dichotomy between the western “us” and the Muslim “them”, making points based on his notions of “Muslim countries” and “Muslim culture” – creating a false entity that could be opposed to western countries and culture, denying its religious singularity.

ALSO quotes maher:

Absolutely. Because they’re violent. Because they threaten us. And they are threatening. They bring that desert stuff to our world …We don’t threaten each other, we sue each other. That’s the sign of civilized people. And they don’t ... People who want to gloss over the difference between western culture and Islamic culture and forget about the fact that the Islamic culture is 600 years younger and that they are going through the equivalent of what the west went through with our middle ages, our dark ages when religion had way too much power … do so at their peril.”

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/oct/06/bill-maher-islam-ben-affleck