Maher on Islamists
October 1st, 2012 at 2:00 pm by David FarrarThis is from a couple of years ago, but I think still relevant. Note that his criticism is about Islamists, not Islam or Muslims generally.
Maher is generally regarded as being on the liberal side of US politics.
Tags: Bill Maher, Islamists
October 1st, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Maher on why people don’t like Mitt Romney
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October 1st, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Has anyone seen his documentary Religulous? Is it worth getting out for $4 a week or is it just preaching to the converted?
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Maher is left-wing, staunch left-wing TV personality.
Vote:Last February he donated one million dollars to Obama’s campaign. Enough said.
October 1st, 2012 at 2:23 pm
I like this one MUCH better. The great Billy Connolly
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October 1st, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Manolo – ya beat me to it. hes a shit house stand up too
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Maher is left-wing, staunch left-wing TV personality.
Yes, but he *pretends* to be liberterian hence the designation from DPF.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Typical incorrect characterisation of the Dark Ages.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 3:22 pm
“…I think it’s wonderful that Obama is reaching out…”
Yeah, like at the UN last week: “…The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet…”
Can you imagine the shit-storm if GWB had said the same thing and substituted the last word as “Messiah”.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (ex muslim, atheist) advocates converting Islamists to Christianity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QaLugRjMg
Very interesting reasoning, whether you are Atheist, Agnostic or Christian.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 4:55 pm
“Note that his criticism is about Islamists, not Islam or Muslims generally.”
Obama is currently assassinating Islamists with drone attacks all over Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan. Then when the Muslims come out to do the neighbourly thing and search for survivors Obama sends down another missile to kill them too.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 5:21 pm
The better term to use is “militant islam.” Islam is too generic. See “Photo of our Times” which puts this debate into some current political and NZ context.
http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/photo-of-our-times
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Bill Maher? This is the best that a right-wing blog can do? Was there nothing on “Islamism” from Dennis Miller, who manages to be both funnier and more erudite than the execrable Maher?
So no chance of a “Piss Koran” sitting on the desk beside him then?
Of course not. There’s brave, transgressive comedy – and then there’s having a death wish. As the far funnier Mark Steyn pointed out the other day in his article Bowing to the Mob:
Bill Maher’s careful parsing of “Islamists” and “Islam” indicates that he understands that last point as well as Hillary Clinton and everybody else in the West.
Only the bits of it that I commented on a couple of weeks ago here; which is a YouTube clip of the section on Muslims.
But of course the real point is that it’s been up there for at least a couple of years and yet I’ve not heard of Bill being invited in for a few questions at midnight by the FBI, or instead getting the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to phone him and ask him to back off, or the Obama administration asking Google to pull it. When you consider that it’s not apparently up to we in the West to judge what is and is not offensive to Muslims and that Maher donated $US 1 million towards Obama’s election I’d have thought such actions to be vital in avoiding violence.
Perhaps Bill’s just been lucky so far?
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 7:53 pm
UN aha-these innocents who turn up after a droning are probably like you and me doing the humanitarian thing,looking after kith and kin however they are nowhere to be seen when Nato troops get shot or our good men are targeted by roadside bombs. They are nowhere to be seen when their possessions (women) are mistreated and education is denied to women and children ,all the tenets of the UN convention that you probably agree with but ignore and would never defend to the death because it is their war,their problem,their right to be culturally different. How perverse. But of course you further justify your indifference by thinking it is all about oil. let them kill themselves,after all it has nothing to do with us. I agree, but I don’t moralise on it or condemn the US,I just regard the killers of Nato and allied troops as a bunch of gutless selfish wonders.
Vote:October 1st, 2012 at 8:09 pm
grumpy- That is brilliant! Connolly sums up Muslims pretty well with that one…
Vote:October 2nd, 2012 at 6:47 am
Correction. KB is a left-of-centre blog. Nothing less.
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