the political comedian, who is promoting the upcoming season of <u+201c>real time with bill maher,<u+201d> was responding to<u+00a0>the attack on charlie hebdo, which left 12 people dead, 11 wounded and is viewed as a direct attack on freedom of speech.









<u+201c>this has to stop, and unfortunately, a lot of the liberals, who are my tribe <u+2014> i am a proud liberal<u+2013><u+201d> maher began.









<u+201c>he<u+2019>s about to turn on you,<u+201d> kimmel joked.









<u+201c>no, i<u+2019>m not turning on them,<u+201d> maher continued. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m asking them to turn toward the truth, as i have been for quite a while. i<u+2019>m the liberal in this debate. i<u+2019>m for free speech. to be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. it<u+2019>s not my fault that the part of the world that is most against liberal principles is the muslim part of the world.<u+201d>









maher contended that most muslims would not carry out such an attack, but claimed that <u+201c>hundreds of millions of them<u+201d> support attacks of this manner. maher called for a complete condemnation of the attack, and broadened his view to the dangers of all religion. <u+201c>we have to stop saying when something like this that happened in paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion,<u+201d> maher said. <u+201c>first of all, there are no great religions; they<u+2019>re all stupid and dangerous. and we should insult them, and we should be able to insult whatever we want. that is what free speech is like.<u+201d>
bill maher on charlie hebdo attacks: <u+201c>there are no great religions; they<u+2019>re all stupid and dangerous<u+201d>
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