From Meidaite:
America got a preview of what we can expect from the 13th season premiere of HBO’s Real Time this Friday night when Bill Maher joined Jimmy Kimmel and unleashed his anger on Muslims who “applaud” an attack like the one that killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s Paris offices and declared that politically correct liberals have turned this country into “Pussy Nation.”
“This was big shit,” Maher said of the attack on people who make jokes for a living. “And we to not avoid who did this.” When Kimmel started saying, “we presume” Maher cut him off. “No it’s not a ‘presume.’ No, no, it’s Muslim terrorists. This happens way too frequently. It’s like Groundhog Day if the groundhog kept getting his head cut off.”
“These guys had the balls of the Eiffel Tower,” Maher said of the cartoonists, reaching for a properly French metaphor. “I’m the liberal in this debate. I’m for free speech. To be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. It’s not my fault that the part of the world that is most against liberal principles is the Muslim part of the world.”
After running down some of the worst atrocities committed on behalf of Islam in Muslim countries and the hesitation to condemn the religion as a whole, Maher said two words: “Pussy Nation.”
“We have to stop saying, when something like this that happened in Paris today, we have to stop saying, ‘Well, we cannot insult a great religion,’” Maher continued.
“First of all, there are no great religions, they’re all stupid and dangerous. And we should insult them. You should be able to insult whatever you want. That is what free speech is like.”
While Maher said most Muslims would not have actually carried out the attack in Paris themselves, he said, “Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this, they applaud an attack like this. What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what? When you make fun of the Prophet, all bets are off.’”
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It's satisfying to witness Maher persist while Kimmel squirms uncomfortably, barely able to bring himself to agree with Maher.
Others are throwing in the towel, too fearful to face the truth they are all too familiar with:
Author Houellebecq Says He’s Going Dark After Paris Killings via Bloomberg
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French writer Michel Houellebecq waits in a restaurant in Paris where writers awarded... Read More
French writer Michel Houellebecq will suspend the promotion of “Submission,” his controversial sixth novel, and go dark for an indefinite period of time, his agent Francois Samuelson told Paris newspaper Le Monde.
His decision follows the attacks by suspected Islamist assailants this week at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead. Houellebecq was featured on the cover of the latest edition of the magazine, published on the day of the Jan. 7 attack.
Sounds like he's chickening out.
Ok, well.
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