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Maher to Guest Defending Islam in Wake of Boston Bombings: 'That's Liberal ####
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Posted on 04/20/2013 9:26:31 PM PDT by chessplayer

Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time Friday made a statement that will make the Right cheer as the left predictably cringes.

After his guest Brian Levin - the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino - said of the Boston bombings and how it relates to radical Islam, "We have hypocrites across faiths, Jewish, Christian who say they're out for God and end up doing not so nice things," Maher marvelously responded, "That’s liberal bulls--t right there" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

BILL MAHER, HOST: So you're obviously the perfect person to have here today. You study this all the time, the mind of crazy people who do horrible things. I'm always interested to know how people like the people we caught today up in Boston can have two minds going at the same time. I mean, if you read what the older brother wrote on his, on the internet, he said his world view: Islam. Personal priorities: career and money. And we see this a lot. I mean, the 9/11 hijackers went to strip clubs the night before they got on the plane.

BRIAN LEVIN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF HATE AND EXTREMISM AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNADINO: Could I just interject? Look, it's not like people who are Muslim who do wacky things have a monopoly on it. We have hypocrites across faiths, Jewish, Christian who say they're out for God and end up doing not so nice things.

MAHER: You know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? That's, that’s liberal bullshit right there. I mean, yes, all faiths…

LEVIN: There are no Christian hypocrites?

MAHER: No, there are.

LEVIN: You make a career on that.

MAHER: They just, they're not as dangerous. I mean, there's only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There’s only one faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. An ex-Muslim is a very dangerous thing. Talk to Salman Rushdie after the show about Christian versus Islam. So, you know, I’m just saying, let's keep it real.

LEVIN: Well, I guess I have a girl for you, Pam Geller you could maybe meet. No, I really disagree with you.

MAHER: I don't know what that means.

LEVIN: Well, she’s an Islamaphobe. But, no I…

MAHER: I’m not an Islamaphobe. That’s wrong. I am a truth lover. All religions are not alike. As many people have pointed out, “The Book of Mormon.” Did you see the show?

LEVIN: No, it's hard to get tickets.

MAHER: Okay, can you imagine if they did "The Book of Islam?" Could they do that? There’s only one religion that threatens violence and carries it out for things like that. Could they do “The Book of Islam” on Broadway?

LEVIN: Possibly so.

MAHER: Possibly so? Tell me what color the sky is in your world.

LEVIN: Here's my difficulty with your premise here, Bill, and that is look at how religions over history have had things done in their name that have been terrible.

MAHER: Absolutely. But we're not in history. We're in 2013.

LEVIN: But what I would tell you…

MAHER: You're right, during the Middle Ages, I would say Christianity was the bigger problem.

LEVIN: If I may, though. You are making an error in that Islam has over 1.4 billion adherents. There’s a heterogeneity to it. Are there extremists who are horrible people who would slit your throats? Yes. But there are also folks that are fine, upstanding people.

MAHER: Of course.

LEVIN: And I'm very worried you have a national audience where we're promoting Islamic hatred.

MAHER: No, you're wrong about that and you're wrong about your facts. Now, obviously, most Muslim people are not terrorists, but ask most Muslim people in the world, if you insult the prophet, do you have what's coming to you. It's more than just a fringe element.

Folks that are surprised by this shouldn't be, as this isn't the first time Maher has come out strongly against radical Islam.

In 2011, he told Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) that the Koran is a "hate-filled book" and that "the threat potentially from radicalized Muslims is a unique and greater threat" than from "right-wing militias and Timothy McVeigh types."


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1 posted on 04/20/2013 9:26:31 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

He just gave us the meme to humiliate the left, whether so called conservative pundit or average person alike. Because scum that he is, he has gravitas with the left.

Henceforth, all lib BS should be called it when uttered by us all. And when people spaz, point to the great leftist BM for the authority for having done so.

And wreck him in the process.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 9:34:56 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: chessplayer

Harvard-tized heads will explode!


3 posted on 04/20/2013 9:37:19 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: chessplayer

Well what do you know.


4 posted on 04/20/2013 9:41:19 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Bikkuri

Hey Ping to Bikk: can you photoshop up a pic of Billy with his great quote?


5 posted on 04/20/2013 9:42:00 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: chessplayer

A longer version of the segment. Good stuff. Shocking to hear Bill utter logic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeKljdSWMOY


6 posted on 04/20/2013 9:43:45 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Islam is statistically the most violent religion on earth by a huge margin. The support and sympathy for violence within the entire Islamic religion cannot be compared with any other religion. That's a fact.

Maher is still an idiot for being wrong on so many other things. He's still a liberal idiot himself. He may want to pretend he's something else, but he's not. That as obvious as his statement on Islam.

www.OathKeepers.org

7 posted on 04/20/2013 9:49:20 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Help put an Oath Keepers car on the NASCAR track, driven by Jeffrey Earnhardt! - WWW.OATHKEEPERS.ORG)
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To: chessplayer

This just in - a fleet of American Yorkshires just filed flight plans out of Chicago O’Hare...


8 posted on 04/20/2013 9:49:28 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ThermoNuclearWarrior

I totally agree. But lets use the gift we have been given. To maximum effect.


9 posted on 04/20/2013 9:51:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Because scum that he is, he has gravitas with the left.


Not so sure about that. DU’rs are calling him a ruling class courtier, a 1%’er, an islamophobe, and an anti-arab racist bigot.


10 posted on 04/20/2013 9:54:26 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Even a blind squirrel.
11 posted on 04/20/2013 9:58:04 PM PDT by Patrick1 (“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)
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To: chessplayer

No, Maher, your a bullsh*t leftist.


12 posted on 04/20/2013 9:58:48 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: chessplayer

Most of the left isn’t DU. Close, but not quite. The idiot reaches the moderates with brains of mush.

As much as we rail the left, most of it is really the moderate variety, Still wrong, but not DU batshit crazy. When you get their hero BM saying this, the fringe du types that make all the noise/get all the press...become marginalized by their moderate brethren. Because those mods want more than anything to be moderates and sit at the cool kids table.


13 posted on 04/20/2013 10:00:57 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: A_perfect_lady

Don’t be fooled.

For the next 360 days, it’s back to the same old “conservative are idiots” meme on HBO.


14 posted on 04/20/2013 10:06:06 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Norm Lenhart

Who gives a rats ass! Maher you need to go to England
With Peirs!
Butt buddies work well together!
And your right in there!


15 posted on 04/20/2013 10:06:35 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: CaptainK

I’m floored. Bill Maher ... making sense, for ONCE.


16 posted on 04/20/2013 10:09:02 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: chessplayer

Stopped 24h Clock is right ONCE a day.


17 posted on 04/20/2013 10:13:17 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: Conserev1

But he won’t go. so lets rub his nose in his moment of clarity. And the rest of his idiot audiences right along with it.


18 posted on 04/20/2013 10:15:42 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: chessplayer

How long before he gets Juaned?


19 posted on 04/20/2013 10:15:43 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

You beat me to it.

It’s starting to be a pattern though because Bill Maher said something about leaving California because the taxes are getting too high.


20 posted on 04/20/2013 10:17:46 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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