Bill Maher is really turning into a vile racist

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201. The Christians, by and large, do not share the same viewpoint.

I can't speak for every Christian denomination, though--they don't all walk in lockstep.

In Muslim culture, if your father is Muslim, you are as well. Some people in Islam, in fact, believe that EVERYONE is born Muslim and the unlucky ones have parents of other faiths or none at all.

This Father-child "rule" is enforced to varying degrees depending upon how fundamentalist the POV is, but it is the very rule that the wingnuts leaned upon when they insisted that our POTUS was not the religion he stated he was but instead was a "secret Muslim" hell bent on putting a mosque in the gol-durned White House, I tell ya!!! In short, the wingnuts suspended their own beliefs and attitudes, and adopted those of Islamic culture in order to play "gotcha" with President Obama. Too clever by half, those Teafartiers!

It is not popular in Muslim culture to be an atheist. If you keep any ties in the culture, especially if you are famous, it is not a good thing to advertise, in the event some overzealous Imam decides to issue a fatwa which can make your life hell. I doubt you'll ever hear Fareed say he's an atheist, but it's not uncommon to "not practice" the religion--plenty of people are on the same page, and some will just attend worship services at major holidays, or when they are visiting devout relatives.