Silke Jasso
On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher and his panel had a disagreement while discussing this week’s terror attack in London.
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“Let’s not pretend it has nothing to do with Islam,” Maher said after panelist Louise Mensch argued that people tried to turn Londoners against their Muslim neighbors in the wake of the attack.
The panel immediately exploded, with Mensch saying that Oklahoma truck bomber Timothy McVeigh “had nothing to do with Roman Catholicism,” despite McVeigh’s being Catholic.
“Every time some bomb goes off, before it goes off somebody yells ‘Allahu Akbar,'” Maher said. “I never hear anybody go ‘Merry Christmas. This one’s for the flying nun.'”
When the panel pointed out that mosques have been attacked in Canada, presumably by Christians, Maher asked, “Are there Christian terrorist armies like ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram?” He wrote off the assertion that Catholics and Protestants “blew up London for 15 years” as “the past.”
“But we’re living now!” Maher said. “Let’s not fuck around with this anymore, can we get real?”
