Provocative article calls Liberals who criticize Bill Maher over his stance on Islam - Fascists.
Why Condemning Bill Maher Is Condemning True Liberalism
http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/bill-maher-twitter-charlie-hebdo/
"During a heated discussion on his show with Ben Affleck in October, he asserted that Islam was the “only religion that acts like the Mafia, that will fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.” The subsequent backlash bled into personal engagements when students at University of California, Berkeley—historically a bastion of liberalism and free speech—launched a petition on Change.org to prevent Maher from speaking at the school’s winter commencement. The comedian was maligned as a “blatant bigot and racist,” and suddenly, the sentiment became fashionable.
Still, the incident in Paris has reignited the issue, which, at its core, is really about a larger dilemma: What does it mean to be a liberal?
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To punish Maher is to subscribe to another -ism entirely. It’s the one that starts with the letter F."
Why Condemning Bill Maher Is Condemning True Liberalism
http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/bill-maher-twitter-charlie-hebdo/
"During a heated discussion on his show with Ben Affleck in October, he asserted that Islam was the “only religion that acts like the Mafia, that will fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.” The subsequent backlash bled into personal engagements when students at University of California, Berkeley—historically a bastion of liberalism and free speech—launched a petition on Change.org to prevent Maher from speaking at the school’s winter commencement. The comedian was maligned as a “blatant bigot and racist,” and suddenly, the sentiment became fashionable.
Still, the incident in Paris has reignited the issue, which, at its core, is really about a larger dilemma: What does it mean to be a liberal?
...
To punish Maher is to subscribe to another -ism entirely. It’s the one that starts with the letter F."
