Interesting things on TV these days.
If you missed it, which I certainly did, in this YouTube clip from last Friday’s show, Bill Maher — surprisingly, for such a notorious
secularist — connects the actions of Boko Haram (the Nigerian schoolgirl
abductors, for anyone not watching the news) to Islam “at large”, stating
plainly that “It’s not just a few bad apples”, much to the consternation of fellow
leftist Ariana Huffington, who begs to differ.
Matt Welch, Editor-in-Chief of Reason Magazine agrees with Maher (with a considerable number of qualifications):
“Islam is providing a disproportionate share of radical nutbags killing people
right now.”
Baratunde Thurston, CEO of Cultivated Wit and author of How To Be Black, dislikes Maher’s assessment and disagrees with Welch’s about the “disproportionate share”: “I don’t think Islam has any monopoly on
darkness and nutbags and crazy rhetoric and violence.”
Maher replies: “It’s not a monopoly, but it’s the Titanic
hitting the iceberg compared to Whitney Houston dying in her bathtub.”
Ouch.
