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Bill Maher Too...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, December 28 2013, 16:20:31 (UTC)
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People, even otherwise intelligent ones, break down when confronted by what they think Islam is...as Maher points out, on other occasions, they become smart/stupid about religion or global warming. That's what happened to Maher when he came up against Islam.

He is incensed that the Christian West should have to change anything in its way of life, its likes and dislikes, when confronted with Muslim extremism...although Judaism and Christianity too have all had and still have their extremists, somehow Muslims are the “worst”, probably because Maher, like Hitchens, is scared shitless about a Muslim getting hold of an A bomb....well, what did we think would happen when WE started making, and selling, the things?

He is especially offended that editors are afraid to print cartoons deemed insulting to the Prophet....how dare they scare us from drawing whatever the fuck we want. In this Maher reminds me of the people he gets so angry at, the ones who refuse to change a hair of their behavior even though global warming, Maher's other great fear, is well upon us. He comes across the same way...”I'm not giving up MY cartoon/Hummer/coal...” Take your choice.

Let's say that Muslims are as bad and as scary as he thinks they are and that they're more than ready to blow us all up for whatever....why prod them and poke them and push them further? Which is more important to Maher, the right to draw dirty cartoons about Muhammad or live without a nuclear explosion? And what's the compelling need to all of a sudden draw Muhammad? Is this a latent wish in Christians they just can't control? It isn't enough we lace their playgrounds with uranium we also really HAVE to insult their religion...really? It's THAT important to our “liberties” and our “way of life”? If Maher is serious, then it seems he can't make up his mind which is worse, nuclear war or no cartoons.

Maher too, it seems, defines his “freedom” as the freedom to do whatever we want to anybody as well as the freedom from responsibility for whatever we do to anybody. If I step on your foot, it's YOUR choice to scream....you didn't have to. And look, now you've upset me.....and my freedom to step where I want.

American "exceptionalism" turns out be exceptionally narrow-minded and downright stupid at times.

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