Bill Maher Slams Liberals For ‘Extreme Bullying’ Over Islam: ‘Je Suis Part Of The Problem’

Bill Maher will not be converting to Islam any time soon.

That’s not news, really. At this point, he’s made the religion his public enemy number one, even relaxing attacks on Christians — though not abandoning — to step up the vitriol on Islam.

He’s already said that it’s the only religion that will “act like the mafia and kill you” if you disagree with its beliefs. He’s also criticized the religion for its treatment of gays and women.

But on the recent episode of his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher, he saved most of his anger for liberals, who engage in “extreme bullying” in their defense of Islam. The comedian started by tearing in to the small group at Berkeley who attempted to have his commencement speech canceled.

He wanted to send someone to check on them and make sure “they made it through my speech okay.” He then did a little crowing, noting that they were angry because of his “mafia” comments and how radical Muslims will kill you if you “say the wrong thing or draw the wrong picture.” Yet since those comments were made, “two Jihadists gunned down 12 people in Paris for saying the wrong thing and drawing the wrong picture.”

“You have to tell me,” he said, “where do I go to protest you?”

Of course, Bill Maher being Bill Maher, he wasn’t close to finished. After celebrating the free speech march and lashing the pope and Bill Donahue, head of the Catholic League, for talking about “punching people in the nose” for defying their beliefs, he had this to say.

“Because whether you’re representing the Prince of Peace or the Religion of Peace, threatening violence is a great way to drive home the point that you’re secure in your medieval beliefs.”

He then turned outrage to Glenn Greenwald, the liberal journalist from the Guardian, who said “anti-Muslim speech, like the cartoons in Charlie [Hebdo], are a ‘vital driver in bombing and occupying Muslim countries and killing the innocent.”

“Really?” Maher asked, then continuing.

“Newspaper cartoons did all that? Wait till they get to the horoscopes and the crosswords. It reminds me of one of the protest signs I saw up at Berkeley last month. It said, ‘Islamophobia kills.’ Does it? The phobia kills? Or maybe, maybe more it’s the AK-47s and the beheadings and the planes into buildings.”

What Maher found incredible was that Greenwald and others like him don’t see how terrorism is really just “extreme bullying.”

“Yeah, liberals hate bullying, all right, but they’re not opposed to using it when they casually throw out words like ‘bigot’ and ‘racist.’ It does cowl people into avoiding this debate. And if you’re doing that, you don’t get to wear the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ button. The button you should wear says, ‘Je Suis part of the problem.'”

For Bill Maher, that goes for everyone, even people who put up websites devoted to “making [Rush Limbaugh] go away.”

“And ironically,” he added, “you’re not even a proper liberal because you don’t get free speech. You’re just a baby, who can’t stand to live in a world where you hear things that upset you.”

Perhaps the best points — judging by the studio audience — that Bill Maher made in the episode came at the end when he told these faux liberals they weren’t alone in being “part of the problem.”

“In much of Europe, denying the Holocaust is a crime. It shouldn’t be. The French arrested an anti-Semitic comedian this week for his comments about the [Charlie Hebdo] attack, which were vile, but opinions shouldn’t be illegal. Everyone can always come up with a reason why the thing that bugs you should get a waiver. But free speech only works if there are no waivers. No waivers. Including for religion.”

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