Shikha Dalmia on Bill Maher’s Attempts to Make Muslim Bashing Hip

Bill Maher has turned Muslim bashing into a hip sport on his HBO
show. What’s more, he berates liberals as too PC for not joining
in. However, they are right and he is wrong. His constant
accusations that Islam is a fascist religion and Muslims are
extremists is both false and dangerous, writes Reason Foundation
Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia.

For starters, she notes, such accusations ignore the 300 million
Muslims—the size of America’s population—in the world who are
Sufis, a mystical form of Islam that is essentially pacifist and
believes that the path to God is through music and dance.

Worse, Maher doesn’t understand that one can’t characterize a
whole faith as extremist without also legitimizing the idea that
extreme measures are necessary to control it.

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