Hamid Dabashi writes: “How different are Bill Maher’s racist screeds from what a mass murderer wrote in his ‘manifesto'[?]…Someone explain to HBO executives the difference between that hate speech and this by the mass murderer in New Zealand…” Dabashi’s assumption here is that if someone is violent in support of an idea, that idea is […]
“Virtue-signaling”: Bill Maher blasts George Clooney’s call to boycott Brunei-owned hotels over stoning of gays
“Real Time host Bill Maher blasted George Clooney’s call for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei…which next month will implement Islamic criminal laws to punish gay sex by stoning offenders to death.” Although Bill Maher admitted to the harm that Sharia brings to women, gays, and others in Saudi Arabia, Brunei […]
Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins slam Left for giving Islam “free pass” despite jihad terrorism
What is noteworthy about this is how selective and one-sided Maher and Dawkins are. They’re all upset about the Marxist anti-Semite Maryam Namazie being banned from speaking at a university because of her views on Islam, but have never said a word while for years Pamela Geller and I and others who tell the same […]
Bill Maher: Hundreds of millions of Muslims support Charlie Hebdo jihad
This Daily Beast report is clearly angry with Maher for breaking ranks with the Left and telling the truth about Islam and jihad. Maher deserves kudos for standing his ground and continuing to enunciate unpopular truths. I wonder how long it will take him to realize that the Left is not going to rush to […]
Maher on likening of criticism of Islam to Nazi Jew-hatred: “Beyond stupid”
Maher answers this claim ably: “Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being […]
John Cleese says you can’t make jokes about Muslims: “They’ll kill you”
This is the rationale behind more than just why people don’t make jokes about Muslims. It is also a key motivation for the solicitude that the mainstream media shows to Muslim sensitivities, such as its general refusal to show the Muhammad cartoons even when they were international news — a circumspection media outlets never showed […]