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In reply to the discussion: Ben Affleck vs. Bill Maher on Islam: Bill's right. [View all]Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)It's called freedom of speech and critical thinking, things that the Muslim world doesn't believe in. He makes fun of people who believe in supernatural fairy tales, especially those who kill people because they don't ascribe to the same fictional myths. He has the right to call the Kurds ignorant children just as he has the right to call Christians simpletons or people who believe in psychics, astrology, Ouija boards, past-life regression, chakras, or anything else that Oprah has talked about on her woo-woo spiritual nonsense channel.
Maher has the right to say "the Kurds are not Muslims" if, as a whole, the people of the Kurdish region all of a sudden decided that Islam is caveman bullshit and they were abandoning it. That would be a fact, not an opinion, just like if the people of Alabama all of a sudden said "OK, fuck this whole Jesus thing, this is a load of crap" he could say, honestly, "the Alabamans are not Christians."
Until all these groups abandon their primitive nonsense entirely, Maher has the right to call them whatever he wants. Anything else related to interpretation of bogus dogmas is just semantics and a No True Scotsman fallacy.