Posted on 10/28/2014 1:22:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A student petition at University of California, Berkeley, aims to prevent Bill Maher from speaking on campus following his recent comments on Islam.
The petition, which now has more than 2,200 signatures and is circulated on change.org, demands that the university revoke its invitation for the liberal comedian to speak at a December commencement ceremony.
“Bill Maher is a blatant bigot and racist who has no respect for the values UC Berkeley students and administration stand for,” the petition reads. “Bill Maher’s public statements on various religions and cultures are offensive and his dangerous rhetoric has found its way into our campus communities.”
UC Berkeley student government senator Marium Navid and Khwaja Ahmed launched the petition Thursday, according to The Daily Californian. Ahmed is a member of the Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian Coalition, which is a supporter of Navid.
In a subsequent interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Navid said she respects Maher’s right to free speech, but that a commencement address would give him greater authority. “The problem is that when you bring him to the university, you’re pretty much putting him into a privileged position,” she said. You’re raising his voice.”
Earlier this month, Maher made headlines during a debate on Islam on his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The comedian and Sam Harris — an author whose books have addressed the corrosive influence of organized religion — got into a heated exchange with actor Ben Affleck after they made comments urging liberals to stand up against Islam. Affleck at one point called Harris and Maher’s views on the religion “gross and racist.”
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Well there’s moonbat crazy nd then there’s batsh^t crazy. Choose your poison.
I am sure a Catholic college like notre dame would allow him so long as he only stuck to anticatholic diatribe.
The Democrat party has gathered under their banner a loose coalition of Godless Communists, fascists, perverts, baby killers, welfare parasites, felons, race-baiters, illegal aliens, Global Warmers, tree huggers, and the feeble minded.
Now what could possibly go wrong?
I said the same thing about 1960s Hippies, and I was right. Just look around.
And since the 60's radicals are vastly overrepresented in government today, we can assume that this group - since it is proportionally a much larger share of today's population - will be favored with even greater overrepresentation in the only field of endeavor that will have them.
Interesting comment.
My dad graduated with a masters in physics in the 50s, after that he taught college level math and physics until he went into private industry. Said he got the best education in the world.
My daughter recently graduated from Berkeley - when we visited there her senior year I was NOT happy with the environment - Telegraph Ave. in particular. The surrounding area looked dangerous and I didn’t like it, but she was set on Cal because it is the crown jewel of the UC system and not easy to get into.
She recently graduated with a degree in English and has a good job as an editor so I guess the diploma IS worth something.
When did Muslim become a race? What kind of idiot would sign a petition as absurd as this?
now THAT'S funny....values, what values?????
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