Bill Maher Battles Charlie Rose on Why Islam is More Dangerous than Other Religions

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Bill Maher thinks Islam is most dangerous religion. Didn't the US ban speaking this way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IjInNxIwfRw

[JohnR! 5,495]

No, the US hasn't banned speaking nonsense.

Bill Maher thinks Islam is most dangerous religion. Didn't the US ban speaking this way?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Shortened transcript to benefit the clicking challenged.

Progressive comedian Bill Maher called out Charlie Rose on his PBS show earlier this week after the host argued there are radical elements in Islam just like there are in Christianity.

Maher began by criticizing former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean for attempting to distance the Islamic State from the Islamic religion.

“It is true,” Rose said.

“It is not true,” Maher shot back, saying there is a “connecting tissue” there.

After asking Rose to let him finish, Maher said, “There are illiberal beliefs that are held by vast numbers of Muslim people that—“

Interrupting his guest again, Rose claimed a “vast number of Christians too” hold such beliefs.

“No, that’s not true. Not true,” Maher proclaimed. “Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you leave the Christian religion you should be killed for it. Vast numbers of Christians do not treat women as second class citizens. Vast numbers of Christians do not believe if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ you should get killed for it.”

When Rose asked Maher how he knows that “vast majorities of Muslims” actually “condone violence,” he said many Muslims “shout it.” He also cited a Pew poll conducted in Egypt previously that showed more than 80 percent of Muslims believe stoning is an appropriate punishment for adultery.

“So, to claim that this religion is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong. It is not like other religions,” Maher added.

Maher likely doesn’t particularly enjoy defending Christianity against Islam as he openly states he believes all religions are “stupid.”

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that last sentence says it all, bill.

[eieio 1,594]

Bill Maher thinks Islam is most dangerous religion

It's pretty much common knowledge at it is. I give him credit for speaking the truth about muslims that most "commentators" avoid.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

It's pretty much common knowledge at it is. I give him credit for speaking the truth about muslims that most "commentators" avoid.

And what truth is that?

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So, to claim that this religion is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong. It is not like other religions,” Maher added.

“No, that’s not true. Not true,” Maher proclaimed. “Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you leave the Christian religion you should be killed for it. Vast numbers of Christians do not treat women as second class citizens. Vast numbers of Christians do not believe if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ you should get killed for it.”

Bill Maher thinks Islam is most dangerous religion.

Edited September 13, 2014 by eieio

[Expat1 971]

Somebody somewhere thought Christianity was dangerous since they took the time to put protection from it in the Bill of Rights. The passengers on the Mayflower sure as hell weren't on a pleasure cruise.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Right on.

Many passengers. and those who followed. were themselves fleeing prosecution from other Christians, so it is only natural they ensured the new country was to be born secular.

Somebody somewhere thought Christianity was dangerous since they took the time to put protection from it in the Bill of Rights. The passengers on the Mayflower sure as hell weren't on a pleasure cruise.

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Shortened transcript to benefit the clicking challenged.

For a leftie, he sure nails it a good bit.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

For a leftie, he sure nails it a good bit.

Going after Sarah is okay and can be done without previous authorization. His followers remain shocked with this outburst as it was not approved by the DOJ.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Right on.

Many passengers. and those who followed. were themselves fleeing prosecution from other Christians, so it is only natural they ensured the new country was to be born secular.

Let's not be silly.

https://www.facinghistory.org/give-bigotry-no-sanction/religion-colonial-america-trends-regulations-and-beliefs

"In the early years of what later became the United States, Christian religious groups played an influential role in each of the British colonies, and most attempted to enforce strict religious observance through both colony governments and local town rules.

Most attempted to enforce strict religious observance. Laws mandated that everyone attend a house of worship and pay taxes that funded the salaries of ministers. Eight of the thirteen British colonies had official, or “established,” churches, and in those colonies dissenters who sought to practice or proselytize a different version of Christianity or a non-Christian faith were sometimes persecuted."

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Let's not be silly.

https://www.facinghistory.org/give-bigotry-no-sanction/religion-colonial-america-trends-regulations-and-beliefs

"In the early years of what later became the United States, Christian religious groups played an influential role in each of the British colonies, and most attempted to enforce strict religious observance through both colony governments and local town rules.

Most attempted to enforce strict religious observance. Laws mandated that everyone attend a house of worship and pay taxes that funded the salaries of ministers. Eight of the thirteen British colonies had official, or “established,” churches, and in those colonies dissenters who sought to practice or proselytize a different version of Christianity or a non-Christian faith were sometimes persecuted."

Though probably not beheaded.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Absolutely. Many tried to institute religious laws at the state and community level, so much so that Jefferson himself proceeded to draft the Virginia statute for religious freedom.

Fortunately in the years thereafter, the USC prevailed and the country fulfilled its secular destiny, as intended by the founding fathers.

Let's not be silly.

https://www.facinghistory.org/give-bigotry-no-sanction/religion-colonial-america-trends-regulations-and-beliefs

"In the early years of what later became the United States, Christian religious groups played an influential role in each of the British colonies, and most attempted to enforce strict religious observance through both colony governments and local town rules.

Most attempted to enforce strict religious observance. Laws mandated that everyone attend a house of worship and pay taxes that funded the salaries of ministers. Eight of the thirteen British colonies had official, or established, churches, and in those colonies dissenters who sought to practice or proselytize a different version of Christianity or a non-Christian faith were sometimes persecuted."

[Dan and Judy 614]

Though probably not beheaded.

That's correct

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/spring03/branks.cfm

Branding and maiming may shock us, but, Friedman says, for our colonist ancestors, "the sight of a man lopped of his ears, or slit of his nostrils, or with a seared brand or great gash in his forehead or cheek could not affect the stout stomachs that cheerfully and eagerly gathered around the bloody whipping-post and the gallows." In New England Jesuits and Quakers were particularly feared as "blasphemous Hereticks" for their "devilish opinions" and were banished, with orders never to return. The penalties for coming back were ears cut off, tongues bored through with a hot iron, and whipping until the blood ran.