Ben Affleck And Bill Maher Battle Over Islam | All In | MSNBC

Chris Hayes examines a heated exchange between the two celebrities on their views on Islam.

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[nighteye]

There's only 1 celebrity here. Ben Affleck

[zack]

Nice jumpcuts MSNBC
This is your station dying, and you deserve it

[haaazzziiim]

Calling all Muslims “Terrorists” is like calling all the Christians “Ku Klux Klan”.

[Cristinact]

Let us remember that this rant by Affleck was the thing that brought Dave Rubin to reason and conservatism.

[wallacenapier]

You have no idea what you're talking about.

[alexnutter]

"Five guys sitting around talking about Muslims is weird." Says the guy sitting alone... talking about Muslims.

[TheLuckySaGe]

Islam is not a race...how is this guy allowed to be on tv when he doesn't understand words...

[LightingJedi]

My respect for Ben Affleck has gone up by 200%

[robertrodriguez]

THE TRUTH: No matter the religion, race, creed, brand, or country, it is the human that has the choice to be subjectively good or evil. However, for any society, the extremes among a populist are usually magnified at both ends of the spectrum. As a
result, these ends get the most attention. This concept distorts the perceived reality and can fuel ignorance. Bottom line, "DON'T PREJUDGE WITHOUT KNOWING THE COMPLETE PICTURE OF FACTS".

[guyinkentucky]

What Chris and most liberals don't seem to get, is that Moderate Muslim leaders are not speaking out against the extremists. That should be the main point

[Mikeonyoutuification]

So, nobody is allowed to criticize Islam. Got it.

[infinightsky]

I’m sure you wouldn’t have a problem with 5 non Scientologist sitting around talking about Scientology

[danieltownley]

Disliking a religion is not racist, it's atheism.

[danm]

I feel like Chris Hayes head is what you get after getting your dunked in the toilet everyday for 12 years, which he no doubtedly did

[rshiva]

This anchor hasn't listened to the points being made by Maher and Harris... It really doesn't matter who's in the room and who's not. The only thing that matters is what are the facts. Maher and Harris clearly state that criticizing problematic points in the Islamic doctrine is NOT the same as bigotry against Muslims as people. We can't even have a debate about Islam without a Muslim in the room? And are most Muslims, who eat sandwiches and go to work regularly as he says, able to take an objective look at their own religion? There is Islamic extremism in the world, and we need to find the root cause. The root cause is undoubtedly the Islamic doctrine, which has many objectionable verses in it. Unless those are so much as acknowledged by Muslims and Chris, the conversation cannot move forward.

[saints]

He made an entire movie on how “ridiculous” Christianity is. Where was MSNBC segment on that?

[Maranatha]

Ben Affleck doesn’t want to have a conversation. He just wants to shut up any view that’s not his own.

[WalterWhite-bmsj]

Sam Harris was the only person at the table qualified to speak on the subject, Maher should have just kept quiet and let him talk, never mind Affleck,  at 1:10 of the original video Harris
 "The crucial point of confusion is that we have been sold this meme of islamophobia, where every criticism of the doctrine of Islam get conflated with bigotry towards Muslims as people, that is intellectually ridiculous" Ben Affleck then spends the next 10 minutes proving his point, what a tool. 

[fozerockz]

Fun fact: none of these people and non of you have read the Quran

[jonathanpark]

He critizises the bad ideas of Christianity as well but isn't called racist there.