On "New Day" with Chris Cuomo Wednesday, CNN's Marc Lamont Hill laughed at the idea that Islam gets special treatment in America or the media.

When Cuomo asked if Islam is treated differently, Lamont Hill burst out laughing.

"Absolutely not," Lamont Hill said. "Muslims are seen as more violent than other religions, they're seen as less civilized, they're seen as more prone to terrorism than other religions."

When Cuomo pushed back, asking, "You see that as being baseless," Lamont Hill said emphatically, "Yes, I see that as baseless!"

That claim had conservative radio host Ben Ferguson chomping at the bit.

"The fact that we have people that won’t even show the cartoons," Ferguson rebutted. "Any other religion that is criticized, mocked, whether it be the Catholic church, whether it be the jokes on Saturday Night Live that came out against basically every priest when you had the sex scandal. The fact that you have these horrible depictions of Jesus Christ…the fact that you have plays on Broadway that mock religions, they don’t have to get any other security for that.”

Cuomo himself had tipped his hand on the matter earlier in the day, tweeting out that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment, a claim plenty of his Twitter followers disputed fiercely.