MAHER RACIST HATRED IS ON DISPLAY ON HBO FAR TOO OFTEN
Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s Muslim Problem by Juan Cole Oct 7, 2014
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Bravo to Ben Affleck and Nicholas Kristoff = Correcting Maher’s chronic Muslim-hating
Maher and Sam Harris = Demonize Islam and therefore Muslims
Ben Affleck reversed their demonizing saying they want to eat and get through life.
Maher and Harris = Made cultural practices objectionable + said Muslims are unusually violent = Ridiculous charges
FACT = Islamic law clearly forbids terrorism
Maher and Harris = Neither one ever lived in a Muslim-majority society or knows the cultures = Anything they say of Muslims can be said of others — describing the human condition — far right wing white supremacist groups exist in USA + Chinese view 9ll as an anti-imperialist act — nationalism/ imperialism — Not religion/atheism.
Maher and Muslims — Maher puts himself in the company of “9ll liberals” who believe that Islam as a religion is different and decidedly worse than all other religions. + LIES hat 50% of Muslims say it is OK to murder anyone who insults the Prophet + Blames 9lll on mainstream Muslims when it was a Wahhabi political cult who spend their free time in strip clubs and Protects a Monarchical Dictator with overwhelming violence and murder.
Maher attacks all religions and promotes hate towards them, but he explicitly singles Islam as much more homocidal than other religions.
Maher = Personally unpleasant to Muslim guests, such as Keith Ellison.
Maher = Reacted to the youth of the Arab Spring gathering to overthrow their USA-backed dictator – “the Arabs are revolting” — Try substituting “Jews” to see how objectionable that is.
Maher joined an ISLAMOPHOBIC network funded by the Mellon Scaife Foundation and tied to the American Enterprise Institute = Made up of evangelical Christians, bigoted American Jews supporting Likud Party, and cynical GOP businessmen/politicians = Something to frighten working class Americans into FAKED WARS.
FACT: Maher = Donated $1 million to Obama
Maher = In Common with Islamophobic Right = Supports Bloodthirsty militant Zionism
Maher = Strongly supported Israeli MURDER of helpless little Lebanon in 2006 = Million cluster bombs on farms and homes.
Maher = Talks about NUKING Palestinians of Gaza = Interviews and fawns over Likudnik Israeli officials but combats other right wing guests.
Maher = Reacts to Muslims with his palpable hatred for them rooted not in religion but in national self-conception. = Key tactic of militant Zionism to demonize and delegitimize Muslims = Excuse for colonizing and imposing Apartheid on Palestinians
Maher = Palestinians “aren’t really human beings”
Maher = Sees the west as USA + EU + ISRAEL VERSUS Islamic fanatics ‘savages’
Maher = Knows the history of Judeo-Christian bloodthirstiness — Discounted past – Only Millions killed in last 50 years = Imperialism + Inquisition + Crusades
Maher = Unimportant, but his bigotry is widely put forward = Impacting real people
Maher = Anti-mosques = ‘fear’ Muslims are in a homicidal conspiracy
Maher = Singles out Muslims as a different and treats with discrimination
Maher = Tries to label Muslims as ‘murderers’
Maher = Uses on Muslims a centerpiece of classical Western hatred of Jews as blood libel — Allegation they stole babies of Christians and sacrificed them in secret rituals.
Maher = Argues some 3 million American Muslims are walking around like a grenade with the pin pulled out. = Same kind of Blood libel secret religious practices
Maher = Just despises Muslims – Blind Hate is so AWFUL!
Maher = Uses Crowd politics of Hate and YES a strong form of RACISM!
Maher = Lies in his accusations about American Muslims
FACT = IRAN is the least invasive nation in Modern history.
FACT = Vast majority of Muslims reject militant groups + 80% want a two-state solution on Israel and Palestine
FACT = Riots can be provoked and happen in every culture — Race-relations set off riots across America — St Louis and many others — In India Christians are killed by rioting Hindus for doing missionary work — because it is an insult to their god(s).
Maher’s Straw man = Muslims “would” kill people for insulting Muhammad. # such killings Where? When? = Singles out one theoretical motive for violence with no evidence.
FACT: Muslims are no more violent than Jews, (facts show far less violent) and have a similar semite heritage.
FACT: Muslims are sensitive to assaults on their Prophet in part because of centuries of Western colonialism and neo-colonialism that denounced their religion as barbaric = Defending the Prophet = Defending their post-colonial NATION = National Identity is common to Americans and Israelis
FACT: In Myanmar, angry Buddhists have attacked Muslim minorities — like lynchings in the Jim Crow South.
FACT: USA Murders Millions in faked Wars to profit the FEW ay the EXPENSE of the Many.
FACT: Israelis MURDERED 2,100+ Palestinians in five weeks = “MOWING THE LAWN”
FACT: Sri Lanka Buddhist attacks on Tamil Christians — A nasty violent police state
FACT: Militant Israeli Jews set fires at Muslim Mosques in Palestine + Israelis tried to “Lynch” 3 Palestinians in Jerusalem
Maher = Thinks only Muslims are thin-skinned, he should try publicly criticizing Israeli policy in America and see what happens to him. = NOW THAT IS VIOLENT!
USA = MURDERED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQI MUSLIMS based on Faked WMDs – Proven 10 years ago to NOT EXIST and even BUSH admitted the TRUTH!
Maher = Tut-tutting over riots in the Arab world = LIVES IN A HOUSE OF LIES
FACT: In most of the world, crowd actions are common over all kinds of issues – Even Wall Street Crimes. — Race, class, sports teams – certainly isn’t confined to Muslims
Maher = Uses his position as a comedic gadfly to promote HATRED of one-sixth of humankind, and that is wrong, any way you look at it.