Sam Harris: Winning the War of Ideas (Islam)
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Satan2016 — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 09:39 PM)
The Sam Harris segment yesterday was covered by covered by many sites, mostly conservative. No negative coverage from the far-left yet.
Sam Harris: Winning the War of Ideas | Real Time with Bill Maher
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Last nights Real Time with Bill Maher examined the vexing problem so many Americans wrestle with: How many Muslim refugees are a comfortable amount and if they bring their laws, fundamentalist aspects of their religion and customs with them, will there be an all out war over this?
Harris talked about the complexities of winning the war of ideas with Muslims the world over and said Trumps blanket ban was working against our better interests. He said: We should be desperate to have moderate Muslims
Maher then dove into the issues of the controversial burqa which unnerves many Americans and countries like France which have banned it.
Harris said: Muslims, who we know do not have alliance with jihadists, they still have attitudes around the world about [restricting] free speech and the rights of women and the rights of gays that are deeply at odds with our own, and we have to win a war of ideas with these people. This is notwe dont fly drones to solve this problem.
He also said that a civil war within Islam and the Muslim faith must be fought among themselves, citing moderate and progressive Muslims who are leading the fight for progression.
Theres a double-standard about this, he said, using the example that if Mormons bombed or beheaded Matt Stone and Trey Parker for the Book of Mormon we would lose our patience with Mormons pretty quickly.
Harris said: You cant say that jihadism has no relation to Islam.
Maher then insisted that liberals must stop saying that the burqa is normal, adding: Theres a human being in there.
He said: You couldnt create an idea that should be more opposed by liberals than [if] we covered the women and [then] blame them if men get horny.