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Bill Maher CLASHES With Charlie Rose Over Islam — “Stop Pretending It’s Just Like Every Other Religion!” Bill Maher: I think liberals should stop booing me for pointing out that Islam is not like other religions, that it is a unique threat. Charlie Rose: But it's not Islam you're against. Bill Maher: Howard Dean said, “The people in ISIS... I'm about as Islamic as they are,” distancing the vast numbers of Muslims around the world from it. That's just not true. Charlie Rose: It is true. Bill Maher: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between Charlie Rose: You mean behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical Bill Maher: Let me finish. There are illiberal beliefs held by vast numbers of Muslims that I don't think have Charlie Rose: Vast numbers of Christians, too. Bill Maher: No, that's not true. Vast numbers of Christians don't believe that if you leave Christianity, you should be killed. They don't treat women as second-class citizens, and they don't believe drawing Jesus should get you killed. Does ISIS kill people indiscriminately who aren't like them? Yes. Would most Muslims do that or condone it? No. But most Muslims in the world do condone violence just for what you think. Charlie Rose: How do you know that? Bill Maher: First of all, they say it. There's a Pew poll of Egypt where 82% said stoning was the appropriate punishment for adultery, and over 80% thought death was appropriate for leaving Islam. So to claim this religion is like other religions is naive and wrong. Saudi Arabia has also beheaded people for nonviolent crimes, including homosexuality. Charlie Rose: They even cut the hands off a thief. Bill Maher: Right. We're upset when ISIS beheads people, as we should be, but Saudi Arabia does it too, and they're our friends because they have oil. This is the centre of the religion. In Mecca, non-Muslims aren't even allowed into the holy part of the city. If people were being beheaded in Vatican City, don't you think there'd be a bigger outcry? This is the soft bigotry of low expectations. When Muslim people do or believe things we consider extreme, it's somehow not discussed nearly as much. Charlie Rose: I don't believe what we see with ISIS represents Islam. I don't think the Quran teaches them to do this. Bill Maher: Well, you're wrong about that. The Quran absolutely has horrible things about how infidels should be treated. And can we really say women are treated equally in the Muslim world? Their testimony in court is often counted as half. They may need permission to leave the house, and women are forced to wear burqas. And I hear liberals say, “Well, they want to.” They've been brainwashed.

Ben Affleck CHALLENGES Sam Harris’s Claim That Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Hold Extremist Views Sam Harris: Imagine some concentric circles. At the center are Jihadists,people willing to kill and die for their beliefs. Outside them are Islamists who want to force their religion on society through the political system. Together, those groups arguably make up about 20% of the Muslim world. Ben Affleck: What are you basing that on? Sam Harris: Polling. For example, 78% of British Muslims said the Danish cartoonist should have been prosecuted. Outside those groups are conservative Muslims who reject ISIS but still hold deeply troubling views on women, human rights, and homosexuality. We have to empower true reformers, and lying about the link between doctrine and behavior won't do that. Nicholas Kristof: The real divide isn't Islam versus everyone else. It's fundamentalists versus moderates in every religion. Sam Harris: We're misled into thinking the fundamentalists are just a fringe. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people. Bill Maher: Exactly,hundreds of millions of people. Michael Steele: Even if that's true, there are many Muslims speaking out against extremists. The problem is those voices don't get the same attention or platform. Bill Maher: The reason many of them don't speak out is because they're afraid. It's the only religion that people fear criticizing because they believe they could be killed for saying the wrong thing.

Ben Affleck GOES OFF on Sam Harris for Calling Islam “The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas” — Then Bill Maher Challenges Him Ben Affleck: So you're saying Islamophobia is not a real thing? That's bigotry. It's gross. It's racist. Sam Harris: I'm not denying that people are bigoted against Muslims. But we have to be able to criticize bad ideas. Islam, at the moment, is the mother lode of bad ideas. Ben Affleck: Jesus! That's just an ugly thing to say. Of course liberals want to criticize bad ideas, but you're painting an entire religion with one brush. Nicholas Kristof: The picture you're painting is incomplete. Plenty of fanatics are Muslim, but so are the people standing up to them. Ben Affleck: What about the more than a billion Muslims who aren't fanatical and don't do any of the things you're talking about? Bill Maher: Do you really believe those billion people don't hold any of these beliefs? Ben Affleck: They don't. Bill Maher: That's just not true, Ben. Bill Maher: The idea that someone should be killed for leaving Islam is that just a few bad apples? Ben Affleck: The people who actually believe and act that you should murder someone for leaving Islam are not the majority of Muslims at all.