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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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IMHO you have to be stupid, or not paying attention, to miss the Islamic tsunami building up around the world. B.Maher may qualify for either title, but he gets credit for saying it out loud.


41 posted on 11/01/2010 9:28:23 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: SunkenCiv

I can’t stand Bill Maher. But he’s gained an ounce of respect from me on this one.


42 posted on 11/01/2010 9:34:54 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/music/Gloria+Jane)
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To: bray

I LOVE the visual I have now of pigs flying past your window IN FORMATION!!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA THANKS!


43 posted on 11/01/2010 9:50:00 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: SunkenCiv

so to show how much pride he has in Western civilization that he routinely slams all of its values...


44 posted on 11/01/2010 9:54:13 PM PDT by cherry
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To: razorback-bert
More like a blind dog finding an acorn. He can find one now and then but he doesn't know what he has.
45 posted on 11/01/2010 9:57:49 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: SunkenCiv

“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.”

Someone needs to tell Bill that these ideas originated from people with a Christian worldview, a religion that he despises. He is right that Islam is incompatible with Western culture, he’s just too stupid to understand why. He’s not the only one that has forgotten his roots.


46 posted on 11/01/2010 10:12:00 PM PDT by Sodbuster
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To: des

“Wish he would invite Mark Steyn on the show.”

Actually that would be a great idea. The islamic threat is so big (to both the left and right) and the left has been so blinded by their idiotic multiculturalism, that to have two high visibility personality from both ends of the spectrum agree on the threat, would be a big step toward eliminating it.


47 posted on 11/01/2010 10:17:12 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Realistically, the druggie Hollywood crowd has more to lose from an Islamic takeover than the right wing does. And you know the saying: A stopped watch is right twice a day.


48 posted on 11/01/2010 10:38:06 PM PDT by Strk321
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To: SunkenCiv

Maher’s worried about being a racist.

Which race is Islam?


49 posted on 11/01/2010 10:39:23 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Homosexuals oppose diversity.)
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To: SunkenCiv

300 YEARS???

Hey Bill, look in our White House, whats the guy’s name that is living there now?


50 posted on 11/01/2010 10:42:42 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: bboop
Juan was black, they other guy latino, but this guy is white, says much worse things against islum and yet the dem/regresive left say nofin.

And CNN doesn't call them racist nor in need of a psychiatrist. wow.

51 posted on 11/01/2010 10:46:08 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Maher is part of the whole ‘excuse me if I’m Jewish, self-deprecating, hunkered shouldered brigade’

well said.


52 posted on 11/01/2010 10:48:28 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Strk321

“Realistically, the druggie Hollywood crowd has more to lose from an Islamic takeover than the right wing does.”

True, and maybe they’re finally waking up to that fact. I truly hope so, because our fight with the islamists will be every bit as tough and long as the cold war... and a lot warmer.


53 posted on 11/01/2010 10:48:47 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Tribune7

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

LOL


54 posted on 11/01/2010 10:50:22 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: bray

...in formation...lol!!


55 posted on 11/01/2010 11:00:53 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: aquila48

“Maher is way ahead of the curve on one of the biggest problem facing us.”

Yeah. He has almost caught up to where we were twenty years ago.


57 posted on 11/02/2010 1:11:05 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: TomasUSMC; RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Maher is part of the whole ‘excuse me if I’m Jewish, self-deprecating, hunkered shouldered brigade’”

Wow, a self-hating Jew **and** a self-hating American.

No wonder he’s such a sphincter boy.


58 posted on 11/02/2010 1:14:58 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SunkenCiv
whether Maher would've been fired from NPR, as Juan Williams had been, if he worked there. "Probably," Maher said.

Undoubtedly.

60 posted on 11/02/2010 1:57:55 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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