Back in September, Bill Maher took a lot of heat for comments he made on his HBO show that “liberal Western culture” was better than that of Islamic theocracies. Twitchy covered it here:
Bill Maher ‘nails’ it on liberal Western culture vs. Islamic extremism
And in a later episode, Matt Damon’s lesser half, Ben Affleck, sparred with Maher, calling his views on Islam “racist”:
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Now Twitchy doesn’t always agree with Maher, but we did on this issue. Maher’s point is that Americans who call themselves progressives or liberals — like Affleck — need to do a better job at calling out Islam for its illiberal views.
Illiberal views such as killing people in Paris because of their cartoons:
And we’ll end it with this:
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