Posted on 03/12/2011 12:04:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The emotion shown by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) at Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) Muslim radicalization hearings garnered much attention, and we have a feeling Ellison’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight will get its share of play as well. Maher and Ellison had an interesting conversation about Islam (Ellison converted in college) – but perhaps most interesting were the harsh words Maher had for the radical element of Islam…an opinion he had no problem sharing to Ellison’s face (or the screen it was on, anyway).
Ellison, who was raised Catholic, said he was drawn to Islam initially due to a message of “inclusion and “social justice,” and spoke of the need for “religious pluralism” in society. It was smooth sailing at that point – Maher even said “right on.” But then, Maher went off on radical Islam, deeming “the threat, potentially, from radicalized Muslims…a unique and greater threat” – one, he said, that’s in its “medieval era.” In addition, he cited “trying to get nuclear weapons” and a “culture of suicide bombing.”
But that paled next to Maher’s criticism of the Qur’an, which he called a “hate-filled holy book…which is taken very literally” by radical Islamic terrorists. Ripping suicide bombers is one thing…maligning the holy book for the entirety of Islam is quite another. Ellison, of course, disagreed, saying Maher was “lumping together things that shouldn’t be lumped together,” and that terrorists “take things out of context to do what they want to do” – in fact, that “terrorist rhetoric” has little to do with religion at all.
Maher allowed that the “vast, vast giant majority of Muslims aren’t the problem,” but added that with terrorists, “it just takes one.” Maher also seemed unconvinced of Ellison’s Qur’an defense, even as Ellison cited a passage that claims that taking one life is akin to killing the whole world, and saving a life is like saving the entire world: “Am I getting the wrong translation? ‘Cause that’s what every Muslim always tells me.” Video of the segment below, via HBO. Maher’s no stranger to criticism of Islam, but this was another level.
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Wow he got one right.
To his fondness of goats.
Were those pigs flying by my window? This may be the first time I’ve agreed with that swine Maher about anything.
Islam is a religion comprised mostly of traditionally culturally Christian peoples living under oppressive, totalitarian regimes. By tradition, it’s about submitting to God, praying, doing right by one’s neighbors. But the UNIQUE elements of the religion, added by Muhammed, are Satanic. And Muhammed’s writings are the only ones that are the official, sacred writings. So the more fundamentalist a Muslim is, the more hate-filled he is.
That's it, Maher.
As soon as word gets out to the Muslim world about what you said, Mohammedans all over the world will burn down churches, behead children, and stone women to prove that you are wrong!
What’s that saying about a broken clock..I can’t believe I am actually agreeing with anything that comes out of the mouth of that scum sucking leech Bill Mahar..are pigs officially flying yet
Ah, but they are. The majority of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims approve of the jihad against the West. And the "vast, vast, giant majority" want to see Israel annihilated. That's a major problem, Bill.
I'm getting real sick of libs playing the "radical Muslims are just a tiny, tiny minority" card.
I think above all, Bill Maher hates all organized religion.
Bingo!
The Qu'ran/Koran/whatever is not a "Holy Book."
Ellison must be a moron if he really believes that Islam stands for inclusion and social justice. It’s no different then saying Nazis stood for inclusion and social justice.
Who ever called it the “religion of peace”??? point to one peaceful thing about it?
Not by anything I can see
It is a cult of death and hatred
There, fixed it.
“Were those pigs flying by my window? This may be the first time I’ve agreed with that swine Maher about anything.”
Maher is an entertainer, albeit a leftwing one. He is looking for audience probably thinking this will get viewers.
I feel a fatwa comin’ on...
Sure it’s for inclusion. We “include you” or you die infidel.
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