Bill Maher declares China the new Islam, says left cant be honest about the countrys threat

“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out the left’s hesitancy to criticize China, declaring the foreign adversary as “the new Islam” in political discourse.During Friday night’s panel discussion, Maher sounded the alarm on China’s AI advancements with the launch of DeepSeek, echoing references to the “Sputnik moment” for the US.He also cited comments from former FBI director Christopher Wray, who said the Chinese Communist Party was positioning “malware” against civilians and is development of Salt Typhoon that can “read the texts of every single American.”“And it is kind of an evil empire, you know,” Maher said.

“And this kind of gets back to the DEI thing because when you make everything about race, not good!”“I mean, we couldn’t look into the origins of COVID being from the lab, which now the CIA, this week, has joined the FBI and many other organizations saying it probably did come from a lab.I said it from the beginning.

It’s being studied in this lab where it breaks out.Really? We’re gonna even wonder about this? Now, maybe it was a bat… [but] we couldn’t say that because the New York Times said to even look into that is racist,” Maher continued.In 2021, A New York Times science and health reporter tweeted that the “lab leak” coronavirus theory had “racist roots” and was not “plausible.”Maher went on, “China’s like the new Islam.

We can’t be honest about them because they’re not White.And China, okay, I’m sorry, kids, they do some bad things, China.

And we should just recognize that.”“This is one of the broader problems with this obsession of all of these ideologies from the left,” British writer Dan Jones reacted, “is that it hamstrings you in terms of thinking common sense pol-““Thinking!” Maher blurted out. “Thinking,” Jones said in agreement, “because you know if you’re framing it in terms of a war, you’re fighting with one arm tied behind your back.You’re j...