The Guardian: Ben Child: ‘Ben Affleck: Sam Harris & Bill Maher ‘Racist’ & ‘Gross’ in Views of Islam’

Source:The Guardian- In Ben Affleck's latest TV role, he played the hipster-leftist-radical, on Real Time With Bill Maher.

“Ben Affleck has won praise for accusing TV host Bill Maher and author Sam Harris for what he called “gross” and “racist” depictions of Islam during a televised debate.

Appearing on HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, Affleck reacted furiously to claims by Maher that Islam manifested as “the only religion that acts like the mafia” and which would “fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book”.

Author and philosopher Sam Harris also attracted the Argo director’s ire after suggesting: “We have been sold this meme of Islamophobia, where criticism of the religion gets conflated with bigotry towards Muslims as people. It’s intellectually ridiculous.” 

From The Guardian 

“Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Nicholas Kristol, Michael Steele, and author Sam Harris got into what could only be described as a tumultuous continuation of Maher’s comments on Islam from last week, with Maher and Affleck tearing into each other over the influence of fundamentalists in the Muslim community.”

Source:The Damage Report- actor Ben Affleck. Which is all you need to know when you hear or see him talk about anything outside of Hollywood.

From The Damage Report

Ben Affleck is just an actor, who really has no business being in an intellectual discussion about Islam or any these others issues, at least in real life. If he wants to play someone like that in one of his films, more power to him. If this sounds insulting, too bad, but I’m right about this.

I completely disagree with John Iadarola about what Bill Maher and Sam Harris are saying about Islam. And I guess Iadarola represents the far-left, political correctness spin here, that if you say anything negative about Islam and perhaps every other Eastern religion, you are a bigot.

Maher and Harris aren’t saying that it’s really just Islamism that’s the big problem when it comes to religious fundamentalism. They are saying that Islamism shouldn’t be left off the hook when it comes to religious fundamentalism in the world, because of it’s views on women, minorities, and gays and how Islamist regimes treat women, minorities, and gays, through their own government policies. 

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