Posted on 03/27/2017 2:29:50 PM PDT by TBP
And this is a freedom that entertainers have that, unfortunately, our politicians have to tip-toe around.
You’re not going to catch me cheering on Bill Maher, as a general rule.
The man is no friend to Christians, having made our beliefs a target of scorn and ridicule for years.
That being said, he’s not exclusive with his disdain for religion, and he has not held his tongue in the usual, liberal way, as far as protecting Islam from criticism.
Again, he’s no champion for Christ, but in a recent episode of “Real Time,” Maher came out hard against apologists for Islam, in forcing them to look at the differences between Christians in the world and followers of Islam.
On Friday’s broadcast, the recent terror attack in London, where four people were killed was the hot topic.
One guest, Louise Mensch, a former Conservative member of the U.K. Parliament, and current Heat Street columnist jumped to the defense of the Islamic community in London.
“The guy was British-born. His name was Adrian before his converted. And partisans of Russia were out in the streets saying it was an illegal immigrant who did it, trying to turn the London people against our Muslim friends and neighbors. And you’re not going to do that.”
Maher responded:
“Let’s not pretend this has nothing to do with Islam, the religion,” he said.
“It doesn’t,” Mensch responded. “It has nothing to do with Islam the same way Timothy McVeigh had nothing to do with Roman Catholicism.”
Ugh.
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Tim McVeigh seems to be all they have. He’s the go-to reference point whenever someone needs to talk about the violence of Christianity – that, and the Crusades.
“Every time some bomb goes off, before it goes off, somebody yells ‘Allahu Akbar!’” said Maher. “I never hear anybody go ‘Merry Christmas! This one’s for the flying nun!’”
Heh. Good one.
Of course, those who feel the need to cover for Islam won’t let facts slow them down.
“When Christians do anything like this, do we ever say, ‘Christian terrorism’?” asked Yale professor and author Timothy Snyder.
“No. But is Christian terrorism as big a problem?” asked Maher in response.
“If you lived in Oklahoma City in the 90s,” injected MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “We’re talking about London here.”
Seriously? I think we have enough problems in the now that gazing backwards is probably counterproductive, at this point.
You’ve got to have more than that.
“That’s a false equivalency,” Maher shot back. “Are there Christian terrorist armies like ISIS?”
“The IRA that blew up London for 15 years!” Hayes exclaimed.
“Yes. But that’s the past! We’re living in the now. There was also the Inquisition,” retorted Maher.
Nice way to get in front of that, because you knew it was coming, eventually.
“Are there Christian terrorist armies now. .. like ISIS, Al Qaeda, al-Shaabab, Boko Haram? Are there armies like that in the world that aren’t Muslim?” he asked. “Let’s not f–k around anymore! Can we get real?”
“I literally don’t agree with you,” Mensch said. “Russia is sending Chechen militants into ISIS trying to leverage this against a billion people.”
He made sense.
He made a lot of sense, but the contortionist views of the left won’t be easily bent.
It makes me wonder if they actually hear themselves.
When they’re alone at night with their thoughts, do they ever go back and question their rationale, in the face of reality? Are these real beliefs they have, or are they so bound to their ideology that the narrative is all that matters?
I’m cautious about handing out kudos to somebody who has been so vile and insulting to the very core of who I am, but I’ll just hang one on the end of a very long pole and extend it to Maher, here. He was right on the money.
The man has made himself look like an idiot to those that know anything about Christianity. He even tried to peddle the ridiculous Jesus was inspired by Horus narrative....
Whatever he does or says is for his own convenience and posturing.
It’s really weird that he can be so clear-eyed on the threat of radical Islam and be such a crackpot otherwise. I wonder if it’s just that there’s some cross-section of liberal Jews in which their thousands of years old survival instincts have, against all odds, also somehow survived SJW brainwashing.
The IRA were leftists.
Let's cut to the chase.
The Koran tells its adherents to commit the acts of mayhem and murder that they commit. The Bible does not.
Mohammad is a role model to all the Jihadist rapists and murderers. The Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh and a role model of how a sinless human being would act.
And regarding the Timothy McVeigh canard - no Christian would have as his last words the poem 'Invictus', as allegedly did McVeigh. His actions at OKC were not supported by anything in the Bible, and his last words at his death were contrary to the Bible.
McVeigh was raised Catholic but I believe he was atheist by the time he decided to blow something up. Boy, he spent the shortest time on Death Row I’ve ever seen. Talk about expedited, hush, hush. I feel certain that if the real story ever came out, it would be... very different from the official narrative.
The left’s canard about McVeigh needs to be destroyed. The day before his execution, he wrote a letter to the Buffalo news stating that he was agnostic.
It doesn’t matter anyways because even if McVeigh was a Christian the important point is that he was not motivated by his religion. In other words, if he had been a member of AAA or American Legion or VFW, does it follow that these groups are evil? He wasn’t motivated by his association with any of these groups. Same with the IRA, while most of them were Catholics, they were not motivated by Catholicism.
Almost to a man/woman, the terrorist are always found shouting Allah Akbar or God is great in Arabic. They are telling us that their religion is the motivation for committing their acts. That is the difference.
I agree, his 'fast-track' through Death Row was quicker than anyone that I remember.
It left one with the impression that there were/are a lot of loose ends regarding the OKC bombing that the Feds did not want to see the light of day. I thought Jayna Davis' book, 'The Third Terrorist', also was pretty damning.
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