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Bill Maher Stands by Comments About Being Worried Islam Taking Over the World...
Weasel Zippers ^ | Monday, November 1, 2010 | ZIP

Posted on 11/01/2010 8:34:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

...about comments he made on Real Time regarding the 'alarming' number of 'baby Mohammeds' in England. Maher told Wolf Blitzer that he felt no need to "apologize for being a proud Westerner," or for being worried that "Muslim people in these [Western] societies are having babies" at a faster clip than non-Muslims.

And when I say Westerner, I mean someone who believes in the values that Western people believe in that a lot of the Muslim world does not. Like separation of church and state. Like equality of the sexes. Like respect for minorities, free elections, free speech, freedom to gather. These things are not just different from cultures that don't have them. ... It's better. ... I would like to keep those values here.
Maher feared that "we can project ahead" to the possibility of England "losing those values." While he and Blitzer didn't discuss the Sharia law issue that arose Friday night, they did discuss another topic that had come up during the same conversation: whether Maher would've been fired from NPR, as Juan Williams had been, if he worked there. "Probably," Maher said. Here, the two seemed to agree.

Here's what he originally said:

...Those who accuse the once libertarian Bill Maher of becoming too much of a liberal apologist might want to clean their ears. Maher made a Juan Williams-esque confession on his program when he apprehensively noted that Mohammed has just become the most popular baby name in Britain. "Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that?" Maher asked his panel. "Because I am. And it's not because of the race, it's because of the religion. I don't have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billmaher; ferretfacefindsanut; juanwilliams; mohammed; unitedkingdom; waronterror; wolfblitzer
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To: SunkenCiv

He’s just desperately trying to remain relevant.


21 posted on 11/01/2010 8:44:52 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maher is part of the whole ‘excuse me if I’m Jewish, self-deprecating, hunkered shouldered brigade’. Disgusting. I hate to see a Jew APOLOGIZING for being ‘Jewish’. Seinfeld’s humor is based on it.

Why not be proud????


22 posted on 11/01/2010 8:45:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
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To: Joann37

“Isn’t something like this supposed to get him fired?”

This is great - the left is going to go nuts over this. I hope he goes to “The View” so we can watch Joyless go hysterical. Maybe she won’t come back this time.


23 posted on 11/01/2010 8:45:24 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: SunkenCiv

Isn’t he an atheist?


24 posted on 11/01/2010 8:45:52 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not to worry Bill once they take over they cut off your head so you will be dead. Doesnt he know the White house is full of Radical islamic supporters he should get with the program and submit Obama would want it that way Bill


25 posted on 11/01/2010 8:45:55 PM PDT by funfan
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To: SunkenCiv
Bill hates Religion - therefore....

He'll get the liberal artsy pass because he is an Atheist.

26 posted on 11/01/2010 8:48:26 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv
HBO Pictures, Images and Photos

NOW they'll cancel him...

27 posted on 11/01/2010 8:49:08 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: razorback-bert

Hey give Maher some credit. He can read a poll as well as the next finger-in-the-wind hack.


28 posted on 11/01/2010 8:50:18 PM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Look out, Bill; Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam will want you beheaded for that.
29 posted on 11/01/2010 8:50:41 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SunkenCiv
Another Dennis Miller in the making?

Nah. Maher is just smart enough to know that when the Imams take over, guys like him are going to have their gonads cut off. And I'm not exaggerating in the least.
30 posted on 11/01/2010 8:50:48 PM PDT by Antoninus (It's long past time for conservatives to stop voting for Republican liberals. Enough!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Guess it would be too much to say, “Proud American.”

Who the hell self identifies as a “westerner” anyway?

Oh well, he opposes Sharia law - I guess its a start.


31 posted on 11/01/2010 8:55:55 PM PDT by crescen7 (game on)
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To: SunkenCiv

Perhaps he’s starting to grow up. Then again next week he’ll probably pop off with something so completely outrageous it will negate his brief moment of sanity.


32 posted on 11/01/2010 9:00:14 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Antoninus
Nah. Maher is just smart enough to know that when the Imams take over, guys like him are going to have their gonads cut off. And I'm not exaggerating in the least.

At least there is one liberal out there that is smart enough to be concerned with survival. Moat others of that ilk would try to reach out to the mooselimbs like trying to reason with a rabid rottweiller. At least Maher is smart enough to know that he would get a bloody stump where his hand/arm used to be if he tried that.
33 posted on 11/01/2010 9:00:57 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: SunkenCiv

34 posted on 11/01/2010 9:01:30 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: denydenydeny
"Like Mark Steyn says, worse comes to worse, “we” can decide that if we can’t beat ‘em, we can join ‘em: grow out our beards, take an extra wife, etc"
You're aware they marry 9 year olds, right?
35 posted on 11/01/2010 9:06:41 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: SunkenCiv

Wonder if CAIR has been heard from yet? They lodged complaints concerning Juan Williams remarks. But Maher is right on this one and I wonder if any of his fellow libs will openly agree with him and support him.


36 posted on 11/01/2010 9:07:14 PM PDT by Will88
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m convinced that if a speeding diesel locomotive whizzed by Bill Maher, it would take him an hour or so to realize that a speeding train just whizzed by him. Maybe even longer...


37 posted on 11/01/2010 9:13:44 PM PDT by CygnusTheSwan ("Me fail English? That's unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum)
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To: ncfool

overly surprised that he had one lucid moment in his life

He probably had some better than average weed before he said that ... about the only way I know of to get him close to lucid.

(but he is right in his statement ... for a change)


38 posted on 11/01/2010 9:16:40 PM PDT by sawmill trash (We are definately a day closer to the end than we were yeserday)
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To: razorback-bert

Maher is an idiot, but there is no reason why we should not rejoice when he actually speaks the truth once in awhile.

Is this the poke that finally broke the PC bubble; the hole in the dyke has been breached, and Islam is no longer being white-washed? I can only hope. I wonder if Maher will have a fatwa put out on him now?

Stay tuned. This just might get interesting now.


39 posted on 11/01/2010 9:24:30 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: aquila48

Wish he would invite Mark Steyn on the show.


40 posted on 11/01/2010 9:24:56 PM PDT by des
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