Steven Crowder is an Imbecile

That guy is an imbecile. If you've been lucky enough to not stumble past him and his antics, Steven Crowder is a conservative comedian and, not surprisingly, a Fox News contributor. He got some attention a few months ago when he was "pushed" by someone at a union workers' protest. I'll get to that later though.

I was on the YouTube homepage the other day, and I saw his video called "Jesus vs. Muhammad!! (Qur'an Challenge II). It is a follow up of his first Qur'an challenge video, in which he picked verses out of the Quran to show that his religion is better than their religion, etc. In the second video, he compares the goodness of Jesus with the goodness of Muhammad.

Here is the video:

I'll rebut this video point by point. But it should be noted that Crowder only uses Jesus as a Biblical example. Because the whole Qu'ran is about Muhammad and only a small portion of the Bible is about Jesus, I will use other verses as well as Gospel verses.

Crowder starts with an aside at 0:59, saying that he can portray Jesus as much as he wants, but "in the Muslim faith, not believing in free speech does not allow for equal portrayals of Muhammad." It is true that this part of Islam is against free speech, but there are also plenty of parts of the Bible that are against free speech. They include:

Exodus 20:7
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain."

James 5:12
"But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation."

Ephesians 4:9
"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."

Leviticus 19:12
"You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord."

And the very portrayal of the Christian God is prohibited in Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."

Therefore, criticizing Islam for denying free speech and saying Christianity is better makes Crowder a hypocrite. 

Next he goes on for quite a while about the mistreatment of women in the Qu'ran. Women are mistreat terribly in the Qu'ran. And, women are mistreated terribly in the Bible.

1 Corithians 11:3 
"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man"

1 Corinthians 11:9
"Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."

Judges 19:24, 25
" ^'Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.' But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go."

1 Timothy 2:11-14
"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."

Hosea 13:16
"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up"


Crowder then gets to the actual teachings of the Bible versus the Qu'ran Get it? Bible versus? Crowder first says," Mohammad taught his followers to kill, convert, or subjugate Christians."

The whole entire books of Numbers, Joshua, and Deuteronomy are about God commanding the Israelites to go and kill  other tribes. 1 Samuel 15:3 has God saying, "Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." The prophet Samuel actually gets mad at the general Saul for leaving a person alive. 

Next Crowder says more stuff about violence. He cherry-picks good and bad verses from both books, but he leaves out good verses from the Qu'ran, such as, "“If anyone slays a person, it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.”

The thing Crowder got the most attention for recently was that he was "assaulted by union thugs." 

This is how Crowder had the video on his YouTube channel:

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Here he is getting debunked by The Young Turks:

To see more ridiculousness and lies, Crowder has his very own YouTube channel.

To play us out, here is TheAmazingAtheist and his take on Steven Crowder.