Liberal opinion of Bill Maher's views on Islam...

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Islamism as a political ideology is completely incompatible with Western values, especially liberal/left-wing values. In one sense, I like how Maher is willing to call out the "who are we to judge their culture?!?!?!?" nonsense some on the left peddle. Any civilized society should be able to condemn barbarism like stoning women for being raped or hanging gay people. On the other hand, he does go too far in extrapolating to Muslims as a whole. While he is correct that there's far more "liberal/nonfundamentalist" Christians than there are Muslims, that doesn't mean that the latter cannot exist. And it's not like this was always the case either, which contradicts his assertion that intolerance/violence or lack thereof is a fundamental difference between the two religions.

You do realize that it's a bunch of right wing extremists who are in power? It's like if the Westboro Baptist Church ran some Christian country and everyone based their opinions of that religion based on that country?

This is one of the most half-baked arguments I've heard in a while, and it's based on a genuinely terrible philosophy that thinks Islam is a barbaric and uncivilized culture.

To be fair he said Islamism, not Islam.