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And Tibetan Buddhism is really more like polytheistic atheism, if you can believe that. And yet a lot of their moral and ethical and theological underpinnings are indistinguishable from those in any of the other world relgions: be a good person, live ethically, live morally, leave the world a better place than when you arrived etc etc. Why is it they get a free pass from the haters? Buddhist countries have armies. They persecute people. They wage war. They oppress people. They're unreasonable and unfair.
BTW when Maher engages in faint praise of Islam when he essentially says "They don't have any pretensions of NOT being barbarians so we'll give them that" he's sounding exactly like the Muslims who burn down newspaper offices for daring to print drawings of Mohammad. Maybe it's just me but I think that's a borderline nazi point of view.
