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Bill Maher: ‘At Least Half’ of Muslims Think It’s Okay to Kill Someone Who Insults ‘the Prophet’

Sep. 22, 2012 10:35pm
Bill Maher: Most Muslims Think Its Okay to Kill Someone Who Insults the Prophet

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Discussing Newsweek’s recent “Muslim Rage” cover, Bill Maher said on his show “Real Time” Friday night that “most Muslims” think it is acceptable to kill someone they think has offended the prophet Muhammad.

Accompanied by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, TIME’s Rana Foroohar, former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock, and the author Salman Rushdie, Maher held up the magazine and said: “Most Muslims — at least half of them, I think, around the world — think it is ok to kill someone if they insult the Prophet.  And that is a big problem.  That is a clash of civilizations.”

Bill Maher: Most Muslims Think Its Okay to Kill Someone Who Insults the Prophet

The panel was discussing Newsweek's 'Muslim Rage' cover when Maher made the assertion. (Photo: Newsweek via Think Progress)

Chris Matthews claimed Maher sounded like he was playing into Osama bin Laden’s “plan,” who he said wanted a West vs. East fight, and for Americans to confuse terrorism with Islam.  After Foroohar said she thinks the solution is for American officials to convey their messages more clearly to Muslims abroad, Matthews asked Maher whether he has ever lived in the Middle East.

“Of course not,” Maher responded with a face. “I’d be dead if I lived in the Middle East,” he noted.

Matthews continued: “I went over and I lived a month in the Old City of Jerusalem…you have the guys in the black hats, the ultra-religious Jewish people…the Islamic people praying five times a day– all intermingling in the streets.  Totally peaceful!  It’s totally getting along together, it’s [been] going on for 2,000 years.  People can live together with different religious beliefs.”

Without going into how Israel is far from “totally peaceful,” Maher simply said “not really” as Matthews finished his explanation.  When asked what his solution is, Maher joked that atheist beliefs would solve a lot of the problems.

At that point Salman Rushdie– who has been afraid for his life since Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to kill him over his book “The Satanic Verses” in 1989– interjected to say he was “with” Bill Maher on the issue.

However, his solution is to start calling what he referred to as “politicized, manufactured outrage” by its true name.  We should not apologize, he says, we should say “would you stop winding people up” and “distorting facts.”

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Also on Bill Maher’s show, former San Diego mayor Roger Hedgecock called Chris Matthews a “liar” for saying much of the reason Republicans dislike Obama is because of his race and background.

After Chris gave a lengthy speech on “the big lie” that Republicans say the poor don’t work as hard as everybody else, Hedgecock replied: “Chris, Chris, calm down, man. You’re just, you’re lying. I mean, come on.”

When Matthews continued to say references to the welfare state are part of a “racial game” the right has been “playing,” Hedcock said: “You’re just outrageously wrong, okay?

Watch video of the exchange, via Newsbusters, below:

(H/T: Mediaite)

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Comments (158)

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  • coizinho
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:35pm

    I can tell this guy is shaking. What’s up Bill, they come after you and they going to kill you.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 1:23am

      His nose may be giving him a fit because it does not like him, they say. Whoever they is.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:27am

      You tell ‘em Mr. Matthews!
      “…cleanest record in the world” Obama has, does he?

      It’s unfortunate this guy is such a blind follower of the head of one of the most dishonest administrations in history (why just last week they started a whole new pack of lies….)
      BECAUSE no one is listening when Matthews admits that the only place in the ME where there is peaceful tolerance is ISRAEL!

      And it looks like Maher has finally read the Koran, but he still is not letting anyone talk but Mathews.

      These guys seem a bit de-stablized. Their atheist idol has just been caught in spreading lies which are in turn stirring up more violence and endangering more Americans.
      SOO… Chris screams racial slurs and class-warfare propaganda– and Bill lets him blather on….

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      GETLIFE  
    • Individualism
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 12:03pm

      they act like some Americans do when you bash the troops.

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      Individualism  
    • t00nces2
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 3:17pm

      Bill Maher may be a lefty, but he knows he has a much better chance of survival in a room full of rabid conservative religious voters than he would on a street in Cairo.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 3:51pm

      I”m afraid the Athiest will now go after the Muslims and that’s not going to work out to well. If you think about it, who wouldn’t kill for 72 young Virgin girls waiting for you when you die. If you are a Muslim woman, you get 72 Young viral virgin boys waiting for you. It would be neat to see them at the pearley gates and refused entrance & sent aside to tthe Devil who is standing there with a smile on his face.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 4:43pm

      Thank goodness it’s only half of them.

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    • snoozinglion
      Posted on September 24, 2012 at 6:41am

      I’ll bet if you popped a paper bag around Bill he would sh_t himself…

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  • scout n ambush
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:31pm

    Someone should have laughed at chris for his lived among arabs in Israel statement and told him to go try that in any other country in the M.E syria ,libya, iran, iraq, saudi arabia,pakistan or turkey and if he can’t send pics from his adventure maybe some of the locals will send them for him.

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    • RobertSailing
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:04pm

      I wish the Muslims would grow some balls and go after Bill Maher. He is a Muslim hater to the 10th degree.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Matthews continued: “I went over and I lived a month in the Old City of Jerusalem…you have the guys in the black hats, the ultra-religious Jewish people…the Islamic people praying five times a day– all intermingling in the streets. Totally peaceful! It’s totally getting along together, it’s [been] going on for 2,000 years. People can live together with different religious beliefs.”

    hey chrissy try livivng in a middle east city NOT in ISRAEL

    what a complete idi.ot

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    Psychosis  
    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:18am

      You don’t mean idi ot amin by any chance do ya? Another piece of work.

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:03am

      Matthews is feeling it…he senses the end is near for his sweet, slim, black president, and the pressure is building in his cranium. The tingle’s gone and he needs to get it back. He’s a liberal male – emotional like a school girl.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:31am

      Yup, he is feeling it. But the truth is so different from what they have been believing — he is off balance.

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      GETLIFE  
  • nostromo
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:29pm

    Well, I just got back from Jerusalem and Matthews is right that Jews, Muslims, and the dwindling Christian populations get on within the city. That is because the city is holy to all three religions and even Muslims won’t terrorize in Jerusalem. I would ask Chris to go live outside Tel Aviv and see how well Muslims get along with Jews.

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:27pm

    Maher, Cooper, and Stewart are slowly waking up out of their Obama-comas to the point that they are at least being honest and get offended by the notion that they should accept spoon- fed BS. …..Matthews- uh, .. not so much. Hey Chris- I have an idea for you!.. next time you’re losing an argument… just yell really loud and repeat your bumper- sticker baloney over & over again until the other person is wiping your spit off their face!

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    • bplumb23
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 10:53am

      Haha, that’s funny, because that’s what 90% of the arguments on here are! Yell out bumper sticker and regurgitated radio stuff.
      It’s just lame to be in the right and have a real argument to put out and instead resort to racist or simplistic bumper sticker sayings.

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  • Doc Hickory
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:24pm

    Chris Matthews must have heard that Al Sharpeton is losing his gig and is auditioning for the spot. That means the reason for everything must be race. Chris isn’t blind to the differences between the races, he’s just blind.

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    • DagneyT
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:19am

      Chris gives away his own racism, by seeing “food stamps”, “welfare” as merely black issues, when that is far from true.

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    • bplumb23
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 11:03am

      That isn’t true. There are other races. And it is common perception that it is more of a minority problem. Or at least we can admit that the move vocal about these things attribute it in general to minorities, and they tend to link those concerns, such as with illegal immigrant like that.
      Besides, food stamps are the least of our concerns, and the least draining part of the national budget.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Food Stamps are also the cheapest ‘vote buyers’ for the Dem. party.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Add your comments

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  • the Anti-Dem
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:17pm

    Just look at the picture. The mentally deranged liar named Mohammed has followers that look like monkeys starved of their bananas.

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    • Ronald Wilson
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 6:21am

      Islam is evil, as socialism, it takes the individual and subordinates them to their leaders, not the other way around. If you believe in constitutional principals, you are in complete contradiction to this oppression. Don’t tell me that it’s just like any other religion – it’s based on hate, submission and death. Their text explains this in great detail. At least the bible and other basis for faith are truly divine, they empower the individual and freedom to believe. If God actually favors this domination, I’m with Maher, there is no point to faith; this is no God I recognize, it’s the definition of evil. Tolerance of different opinion or religion is divine, tolerance of evil behavior is complicit.

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  • RLTW
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:16pm

    So Christy thinks living in Jerusalem for a year is the Middle East? What a farce, Islamism in the Wahhabi form can never be moderate he was not truly in the mix, but if Christy likes to invasion himself bravely walking the streets of the party city of Israel…well good for him.
    Sadly for them (Moslems in Israel) they will be nothing but another long line of victims of radical Islam

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    RLTW  
  • aintthispeachy
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:16pm

    Hey Bill,…Chris,… how about these Muslims that cling to their guns and religion?

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  • scout n ambush
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:16pm

    Just a few of the faces on the deck of playing cards i see some patriot making in the near future .

    scout n ambush  
  • CaliforniaScreaming
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:16pm

    Maher, you are an ass thru & thru. You’re the guy publishing books critizing Bush for his defense of freedom & then turn around & admit you wouldn’t last 30 minutes in a middle eastern (re: Islamic) country. What you & all your elitist snob entertainers/buddies fail to realize is you would all be the FIRST to be stoned if the Muslims have their way. You’re a true twit.

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  • marine249
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:14pm

    1st maher is a horse’s a$$
    2nd matthews is a donkey a$$
    3rd rushbie is a camel’s a$$
    4th forooker is a fool
    5thHedgecock is ok, but still a fool
    for going on maher show

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:11pm

    I think that some of these rich leftists like Maher thought the decline of Christianity and freedom was going to take 50 or 100 years…..Now that it appears that it could happen in their lifetime possibly putting a stop to the large life they are living,they are getting very worried that they might have to life in the type of society they only had planned our grand children to live.

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  • Old Phart
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:08pm

    To Chris Mathews,
    Please understand, If you do not work, you are part of the welfare state. Also, Chris, please take your medication and you wont feel that “tingle up your leg”.

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    • roselee71
      Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:34pm

      chris chris chris only you could look at the last four year mess up and say its because we don’t like it because of it’s color thats such a crock,i don’t like you and your white and it’s not because your white it’s because your on tv without a brain.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 12:04am

      @ROSE You go girl……………

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  • GorillaG
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:07pm

    That piece of crap Maher is right about one thing, it is for sure a clash of civilizations, and thanks to our gutless politicians, their stone age civilization is winning. Every country that has tried tolerance with them has been over run and receives ZERO tolerance from them. Theres is a faith that overtly preaches violence and we will never win a war of words with them. We only have two choices, deal with them on their level or capitulate to them. The diplomats and politicians will NEVER acknowledge this and while they hesitate the West is LOST FOREVER>

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    • Cybil
      Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:21pm

      Here, here! Well put man. Well played.

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      Cybil  
    • Jim S
      Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:47pm

      …after WWII, the industrial world was in ruins..except the US..we took position to rebuild the modern world, feed it and give it a free democratic system. The modern world is rebuilt and can feed itself and the US has not been needed in it’s prior role for some time. It’s a bit like the kids growing up and not needing you as much and then not at all BUT you keep injecting yourself into their lives..you either end being hated or they live in the garage. We have managed to have both with the Arab World. I don’t care if 500,000 Syrians die in their civil war..that’s 100,000 less the we had in our civil war. We are guests in foreign nations, we have NO right to be there. If I am in a room with 100 occupied tables and 1 group from one table attacks me and the people at the 99 just sit there, I want nothing to do with ANY of them. So if radical Islam is a small group of the larger loving ,peaceful Islam but the larger group does nothing to stop the smaller…oh well. We have extreme religious here but we SHUN them, we ignore them, we don’t let them kill others…bring all the troops home, stop all aid/food/loans/visas to the Arab World…period.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:07pm

      We’re feeding a lot of them. That has to stop.

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    • Fla.Patriot
      Posted on September 24, 2012 at 1:49am

      I dont think we should deal with them at thier own level, I think we should take it to a whole new level. It’s not enough to win the battle. Think of them as a mildly Retarded bully. Even if you win a fight with them, they just keep coming back for more, thinking it will be different the next time. No…what needs to happen is taking terrorism to new heights. They want to play this game, then we need to get our head in the game. We need to be so heinous, so brutally cruel in our dealings with them that they live in terror of us. It is the ONLY thing they understand. They’re so hot to be with Allah and die for the cause, we should accomodate them…in excess. Believe it or not, I’m a pretty laid back person. But enough is enough.After thousands of years of Muslim conquest I think the only way to save humanity is total annillation. They are unfit to inhabit any part of the globe, and are a constant threat to anyone who is not one of them……just sayin :)

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:06pm

    Excellent. Maybe Muslims will kill Bill Maher and Chris Matthews

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    BODYBAG  
    • CatB
      Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:24pm

      Perhaps they should go speak to their buddy Obama who has the Muslim Brotherhood in the WHITE HOUSE!

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    • MacWell
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:22am

      I, for one, believe that even Bill and tingles are worth more than any Muslim. They are, after all, Americans, and I’d take ANY one American over 1000 Arabs or Persians. As far as atheists are concerned, they cannot be good Americans. They’re diametrically opposed to American values, .ie freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Atheists have been systematically removing much of the intent of freedom of religion since America was founded. Atheism is the direct cause of America’s decline. America’s schools were started for the express purpose of giving children the ability to read the Bible, teaching them honor, respect for authority, to read, write and perform better in a modern, new world. The atheists behind one woman, and nine black robed men who conspired to throw God from our children’s classrooms, are now reaping the destruction of America as she was founded. This is, of course, what they’ve wanted from the beginning. Like ALL haters of God, atheists believe that we’re nothing more than walking, talking cockroaches who’re ruining the planet.

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    • Jackal7130
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:58am

      I’ll bring the popcorn

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:51pm

      BODYBAG….lol….. we can only hope!

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    • DoseofReality
      Posted on September 24, 2012 at 11:47am

      Macwell…so no athiest or agnostic can be a good american or a good person huh? The hatred you guys have for everyone that is different from you is astounding. I guess america was better when we were committing genocide on the native population….or was it slavery? Or was it prior to womens suffrage? You know, everything was just so much better and more moral back then wasnt it? Thankfully Im sure you live in some southern redneck city or town and I dont have to deal with people like you on a daily basis.

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  • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Change the channel.

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  • PobeptMu
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:03pm

    “Maher joked that atheist beliefs would solve a lot of the problems. I am not sure about that? The last few atheist nation did not do so well specially for the people. Lenin/Stalin, what 40 or more million people just disappeared , Mao was reported to have said “we have some many people so what if we(no one knows just how many people again just disappeared) lose a few. And there was that guy named Pol pot that reduced his population by 2 million, just saying and I know not ever atheist thinks that/this way. Since-some- atheist believe we have no ultimate value, purpose, are meaning. Peter Hitchens(brother of the late Christopher Hitchens ) I would rather be a atheist in a Christian country than an atheistic one.

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:03pm

    Well at least he knows the enemy but he would say the same thing of God fearing Christians American type people who hold on to there god and guns. They want to kill someone who dares wants to lead them but is not of the same skin color and just like them.

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    • Moozmom
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 4:07am

      Your “not the same skin color” president is an anti-colonialist and is in bed with the muslim brotherhood and other radical terrorists. Your “not the same skin color” president supports killers and that is why he is evil.
      P.S. If he was pink, he would still be evil.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:54pm

    If the Kenyan is re-elected, Christians and Jews alike will have to protect their religious beliefs through a Leupold scope!

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  • pissantno.10
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:53pm

    im littel chrisy and my mommy will beat your mommy up and my mommys boy friend showed me how to be a good boy.

    in the

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  • blackyb
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:49pm

    What race would that be. We really do not know who Obama is, now do we? Besides if people disliked him so much for his race, why is he playing ‘President’ in our White House?

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    • drs1969
      Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Whites have been Brainwashed by the Jewish/Marxist media for 50 years. That’s how he was elected. If you call me racist, you’re parroting their line. I you don’t, either you get it or I wasn’t clear enough.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:46pm

    The feeling is quite mutual here. Most of us, truth be told, do not like very many of them at all and the ones we do like we do not trust at all. That includes Obama and his fringe groups. They do not have a monopoly on that corner of hate and distrust. At least Americans have given most other countries help, those Muslims are takers and wasters of what they do have. They waste the potential of all those people who could be doing something other than running around like a bunch of rabid schrews looking for something to kill. Stay your azzes out of our country. We have enough of you here. Most of the ones we have here should leave. We think most of you are stupid, anyway for coming here and trying to make a setup like you left from that you claim you were trying to get away from. It will not work here. We do not want it and you can stop wasting your time.

    blackyb  
  • cemerius
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:42pm

    I fart in the general direction of Mecca and would love to slap Mohammed too

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  • Southpaw
    Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:39pm

    Even a blind squirrel.

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