Bill Maher Discusses Charlie Hebdo Attack, Islam With Jimmy Kimmel

Well-known atheist and comedian Bill Maher has addressed the recent Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, criticizing both extremist Islam and liberals' response to the attack.

While speaking on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Maher argued that he believes the world should "not avoid who did this," arguing that the Islamic religion is responsible for the Wednesday attack that killed 12 at the Charlie Hedbo newspaper in Paris.

"This happens way too frequently," Maher said. "It's like 'Groundhog Day,' except if the groundhog kept getting his head cut off."

Maher went on to say that he believes liberals need to admit that "hundreds of millions of [Muslims] support an attack like this."

"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. First of all, there are no great religions. They'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." 

"There are certain people in the world who want wafers on free speech. Kim Jong-un in North Korea says you cannot make jokes about our country, and there's a lot of Muslim people in the world. I know most Muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. But here's the important point. Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. They applaud an attack like this. What they say is, 'we don't approve of violence, but you know what, when you make fun of the prophet, all bets are off.'"

Maher added that he believes it is mainstream in the Muslim world that if one makes fun of the prophet Mohamed, they deserve death.