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Bill Maher "Islam is Most Violent Religion"

Comedian Bill Maher gets into a debate with television talk show host Charlie Rose, on why Islam is more violent than any other religion. Septmeber 9, 2014.

Bill was raised as a child in his Irish American father's Catholic religion; he was unaware, until his early teens, that his mother, Julie Berman, whose family was from Hungary, was Jewish.

Bill Maher: "The Israelis Are Controlling Our Government"

Bill Maher joined the chorus of conspiracy theorists this weekend, perpetuating the trope that Israel runs the U.S. State Department. During a debate with Jamie Weinstein, editor of the Daily Caller, and Donna Brazile, a Democratic Strategist, on Chuck Hagel, Maher was blunt in his “assessment.”

JAMIE WEINSTEIN, EDITOR AT DAILY CALLER: Just yesterday, there was a new speech that they believe in which during the question and answer [session] at Rutgers University, Hagel claimed that the State Department was controlled by the Israeli government. Israeli foreign ministry controls the government.

DONNA BRAZILE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: You see, Bill, what they’re doing is they’re going after every speech.

BILL MAHER, HOST OF “REAL TIME” ON HBO: And it’s not?

WEINSTEIN: Well, there’s two things wrong with that. One is that — it’s, you know, kind of suggesting Israeli power is controlling things. Number two, of all the branches of the government, the State Department being the most pro-Israel branch is ridiculous.

MAHER: Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

WEINSTEIN: Not the State Department, that’s for sure. (HBO’s Real Time, February 15, 2013)

The statement received a round of applause from many in Maher’s audience, but as The Lid points out: “The crazy part of it all is that even in pro-Israel administrations the State Department has an anti-Israel history.”

Watch a video of the shocking episode below:

Bill Maher on Israel

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