Bill Maher hates Christianity being compared to Islam

I found a YouTube clip from America of Bill Maher speaking to Brian Levin, the Director For the Centre of Hate and Extremism at California State University. Full clip here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjwMWfWnd1k

In this clip Brian Levin responds to a query about the Boston bombers by saying 'People who are Muslim who do wacky things don't have a monopoly on it.' Bill Maher responds 'that's liberal bullshit right there.'
Maher then however qualifies that he thinks there are hypocrites in all faiths but they're not as dangerous, then goes on to cite death threats associated with the drawing the prophet and Muslims who want to kill people for leaving their faith.
Maher also states during the clip 'I'm not an Islamophobe. I am a truth lover. All religions are not alike.' and said to Levin 'ask most Muslim people in the world 'if you insult the prophet, do you have what's coming to you? It's more than just a fringe element.' Maher was also apparently not very open to hearing Levin try to put his comments into any sociological context. When Levin points out that Christianity was more violent historically, Maher dismissively responds by saying 'We're not in history, we're in 2013'.

Since Levin was clearly unprepared to have that conversation he didn't do a good job of explaining what was wrong, so I'll do it now. Here's the problem:
When Maher says 'I am a truth lover', he's wrong. What he's saying isn't the truth. It's a half-truth at best. A full truth would have mentioned the sociological context, or at least not tried to avoid mentioning it when someone else brings it up. When you mention that Muslims, (or any group of people) are more violent you have an obligation to say why this is the case, otherwise you are telling a half-truth which seriously skewed from the full truth. This is especially important when there's already significant hatred and prejudice against the group of people you are skewing the truth about.
For example: imagine hypothetically that Levin casually remarks that no one particular demographic has a monopoly on violent crime. Is Bill Maher going to say 'That's liberal bullshit! Blacks are by far the worst! How dare you compare any other race to THEM! What? I'm just telling the truth! Blacks commit more crime! Is it racist to tell the truth to you libtards?'
No idiot! It's racist to tell HALF truths. There are significant sociological reasons why blacks commit more crimes and Muslims are generally more radical.
For one thing in relation to blacks, there's the history. America had slaves and when you inherit poverty you've got a greater chance of being poor yourself. More poverty = less opportunity = more incentives towards crime. There's also the war on drugs in America that locks up lots of lower class people just for using marijuana (which can't even kill you and is good for you in a lot of ways). Lots of blacks are lower class = less opportunity to get your life together if you've been locked up = more incentive to crime again. There's also the fact the our education systems have subtle cultural bias because white people are the majority in America and it's naturally easier for teachers to teach students who are more similar to them culturally. Bottom line - 'There's more crime among blacks because blacks had less opportunity to reach their full potentials.' That is telling the WHOLE truth.
Given that America and Israel have been bombing Muslim countries to shit for the last 70 years basically and America propped up and supported dictators across the middle east, I'd say it's a sociological problem among Muslims too. Of course they're going to be more radical if they're country's been destroyed by war and oppression.
In summary, you can't just put all of the emphasis on the individual. You HAVE to mention circumstances. If you don't you're not a truth-lover you are a truth-perverter. Here's another example - If I beat someone in a 100m sprint but I only win because my opponent had a 30kg ball and chain tied around his right ankle, don't I have an obligation to mention the 30kg ball and chain when I go around bragging that I beat him? I can't just say 'Ha! Ha! Ha! My opponent was a bleeding-heart liberal Communist who can't stand the fact that I beat him because he sucks and I rule! Why doesn't he just pull himself up by the bootstraps, instead of whining all the time?'
That's all Bill Maher's doing when he talks about Muslims. 'Muslim's are bad. Uur-merica good. We're better than them. I'm just telling the truth'. -Fuck you.