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I am saying that the belief that you should die for making fun of a book or a prophet is much more mainstream in Islamic culture than it is in other cultures. In fact, death for leaving the religion, death for making fun of the religion, death by stoning for adultery, death in a number of countries for just for being gay. I have never come across a culture where “we kill you” is the answer to more issues, and I am an American. So that’s not bigotry; that’s just the way it is in the world. I know that liberals get their back up about this. But I find it very ironic because liberals are supposed to defend liberal principles. And certainly the First Amendment — I have said this before — liberals should own the First Amendment the way conservatives own the Second Amendment.

-Bill Maher