He is especially right in light of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. The Left in the West and worldwide has sided with the murderous Islamic regime in Tehran.
“Bill Maher roasts ‘insane’ liberals for not calling out Islamic extremism,” by Scott Whitlock, Fox News, December 13, 2022:
Bill Maher used his “Club Random” podcast on Monday to slam those who will not defend free speech, hammering fellow liberals as “insane” and “backwards” for failing to call out Islamic extremism.
Maher had evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as a guest, where the two criticized the assumption that if you believe COVID originated in a lab, “you were a Republican.”
“That’s insane,” Maher said.
Maher and Dawkins discussed the decision by the Sundance film festival to pull a Guantánamo Bay documentary entitled “Jihad Rehab” after left-leaning groups said it “promoted harmful stereotypes about Islam.”
“We’ve come to this place where you can’t even go near a topic, certain topics, without the mob coming after you,” Dawkins said.
Maher marveled at his fellow liberals, “Yes, it’s so insane how backward their thinking is.”
“If it was just a society that decided tomorrow to throw a f—ing burlap bag over every woman, like head to toe, like a tarp on a motorboat and the liberals – what would you say about that, liberals? If it was the news in the paper tomorrow? Uh, you know, ‘Iran to begin covering women completely.’ Would we just, ‘Oh, okay well you know,'” the comedian rhetorically asked.
“Well, they’re terrified of being thought racist,” Dawkins responded….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Much as I loathe him, he has been pretty consistent in condemning islam and shariah over the years. However, his support to the Left at the same time has enabled islam, thanks to the islamo-Left alliance
kq6kq6kq6 says
“Bill Maher roasts ‘insane’ liberals for not calling out Islamic extremism,” by Scott Whitlock, Fox News, December 13, 2022:
They’re not insane. They’re cowards.
Fitna says
Yes I think that’s part of the problem, but they’re also deluded. In some Lefties minds “colored people” can do no wrong. To them if Muslims are killing their own daughters, stoning gays, etc., it’s always traced back to ‘western imperialism’ it’s our fault.
I also think Liberals are very insensitive to real suffering, it’s just words on a page when you say things like ‘stoning, FGM, honor killing’ and so forth.
If you tell them Muslims are brutally killing girls for not wearing a hijab, they’ll say it’s because we invaded Iraq. The idea of other humans suffering really means nothing to them. Like a concept they have to file away in their minds. The only time they’ll take it seriously is when Muslims will target them and their families.
Now add that to the huge animosity they feel towards Conservatives, so they mostly shut their brains down because they think anyone on ‘our side’ is a liar or has some hidden agenda, or is simply a hatemonger.
So I’m glad there are people like Bill Maher taking their fellow Lefties to task. Whether we like it or now, we can’t win this alone, we’ll need the help of a large fraction of Lefties, that’ll also help convert the others to our side.
Because if they don’t unite with us then the fight will be far harder, because the Left is embedded in every level on our society, including the highest levels.
Just look at Hollywood which is mostly Left, have they ever once made a movie critical of Islam? Never, but imagine if they did, the massive impact that would have. Ofc the Muslims will rip out their hair and hijabs, scream, riot and burn towns, but the truth must be said, that’s the only way we’re going to defeat Islam.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Fitna. Good analysis.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
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Whether we like it or now, we can’t win this alone, we’ll need the help of a large fraction of Lefties, that’ll also help convert the others to our side.”
I think that, over time, JFK type liberals can be won over.
The far left, like Michael Moore, Bette Midler, Robert De Niro, AOC, are likely NOT reachable.
tim gallagher says
I have never been able to understand why the left support backward, misogynistic islam, except that both the left and islam share a hatred for civilised western societies, so they both get together to try to destroy such societies.. I like what Maher says there about a society that suddenly covered up women with burlap sacks. It is a good point that he makes in a clever way. But the hypocrisy of the left wingers will ignore the sensible point he makes there. The left are illogical and dumb beyond belief with their support of primitive islam and all its atrocities.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Tim
That’s very much the reason. Otherwise, the things that islam stands for absolutely fits the caricature that the Left has made of organized religion, and in fact, exceeds it. Neither should have any truck w/ the other, except that they both have the same enemy: civilized society
I sometimes fantasize about discovering a new livable planet, and transporting all Leftists and muslims there. Or alternately, leave them here and get the rest of us all out there. It would be fun to see how well they get along together: it would probably be either like Iran (where the Left was crushed) or the Soviet Union or China (where the islamists were crushed). Oh, and I’m including China in the Left, even though it’s now more Fascistic than Communist
tim gallagher says
Yes, the left and islam as friends and allies make no sense at all except for their shared hatred of our decent, pleasant western societies, Infidel. You are right about how they would soon enough be tearing into one another if just the lefties and the Muslims were stuck together. And as you say, the left wingers, from my experience working with marxist wankers over the years usually are atheists who loathe all religions. But their shared hatred brings the left wing clowns and Muslims together, for a while at least.
Don McKellar says
Why does the left defend sharia law? Why do gay people stand with transexuals? Why do some jews hate Iareal? Because they are all difunctional fakes who hate themselves.
tgusa says
I only disagree with Bill on this. He should have stopped with, leftists insane. Bill must be feeling naked and afraid when he examines what the left is up to these days. I almost fell sorry for Bill, the concerned leftist, almost.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t. He was the dreg rooting for a recession just to up-end Trump. Well, it happened in the other sequence: first Trump was up-ended, now we have a recession (it’s 3 successive quarters now, so dear comrades, don’t bother tinkering w/ the definitions). So I remain totally underwhelmed by anything he says or does
gravenimage says
Bill Maher says Leftists ‘insane’ for not daring to criticize Sharia
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Good for Bill Maher! I don’t agree with him on all points, but he is spot on here. And so good to see a liberal with some decency and common sense.
Alkflaeda says
Supposing, for a moment, that you took a report of an average day for Sharia – a couple of same sex attracted people chucked off buildings in Afghanistan, a few floggings in Saudi Arabia, the odd beheading in Iran or Iraq, women married to the men who raped them in Pakistan… and you substituted “Christian” for Muslim, and “crusade” for sharia. The Left would be up in arms.
Violet says
We’re just beginning to witness the mayhem which is directly the result of Left politics.
As long as Bill M continues to support the Left, he is as responsible as the next voter in bringing our western countries to a state of mayhem and disorder.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Absolutely. Like I noted above, nothing is likely to ever make me his fan