{"id":8456,"date":"2013-04-21T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2013-04-22T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:38:41","slug":"indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boston_bombing_suspects\"<\/a>Bill Maher gets it right.<\/p>\n

The Daily Calle<\/em>r reports:<\/a><\/p>\n

On HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d on Friday night, host Bill Maher entertained CSU-San Bernardino professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism<\/a>, who maintained that despite the events in recent days, religious extremism isn\u2019t only a product of Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm, true enough in one sense, but that’s not what Levin really meant<\/em>. And to his credit, Maher called the professor out:<\/p>\n

But Maher took issue with that claim, calling it \u201cliberal bullshit\u201d and said there was no comparison.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what, yeah, yeah,\u201d Maher said. \u201cYou know what \u2014 that\u2019s liberal bullshit right there \u2026 they\u2019re not as dangerous. I mean there\u2019s only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There\u2019s 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\u2019m just saying let\u2019s keep it real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Levin referenced outspoken Islam critic Pamela Geller as an example to refute Maher\u2019s claim. But, Maher argued there was no comparison and denied he was Islamophobic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not an Islamophobe,\u201d Maher replied. \u201cI am a truth lover. All religious are not alike. As many people have pointed out \u2014 \u2018The Book of Mormon,\u2019 did you see the show? \u2026 OK, can you imagine if they did \u2018The Book of Islam?\u2019 Could they do that? There\u2019s only one religion that threatens violence and carries it out for things like that. Could they do \u201cThe Book of Islam\u201d on Broadway?\u201d<\/p>\n

Levin said \u201cpossibly so,\u201d to which Maher seem dismiss his entire argument going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re wrong about that and you\u2019re wrong about your facts,\u201d Maher said. \u201cNow, obviously, most Muslim people are not terrorists. But ask most Muslim people in the world, if you insult the prophet, do you have what\u2019s coming to you? It\u2019s more than just a fringe element.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Maher gets it right. The Daily Caller reports: On HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d on Friday night, host Bill Maher entertained CSU-San Bernardino professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism, who maintained that despite the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[702,50,804,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}