Bill Maher Argues: Salman Rushdie ‘Had a Good Reason to Be Fearful’ of Islamic Extremists (Video)
thewrap.comshould have a debate about this, sorry, but you know, these things don’t go away. Islam is still a much more fundamentalist religion than any of the other religions in the world.
And that means they take what’s in the holy book seriously. And that has been dangerous for a long time. It’s still dangerous.”The whole topic of free speech came to the forefront of the roundtable, with panelist Piers Morgan quoting Rushdie. “I want to draw your attention to a quote from Salman Rushdie.
The defense of free speech begins at the point when people say something you can’t stand, you often have to defend people you find outrageous, unpleasant and disgusting.
And that’s the point.”Morgan went on: “I think that people have forgotten in this debate about free speech, which is, it’s not about the right of people you agree with to say what they like, and then you’re not alone.
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