Huff Post: Marwan Bishara: I enjoy watching Real Time with Bill Maher whenever I can, and I especially appreciate the wittiness and humor of his New Rules. Alas, whenever the subject of Islam and the Middle East pops, the show turns ugly. To avoid the cynicism that mars Maher show a few new rules are in order.
New Rule: Stratification of religions is a futile exercise. No single religion has a monopoly over violence. Violence has no religion.
NR: Intelligent talk shows are hard to come by nowadays, so Real Time shouldn’t be polluted by anti-Islamism — the modern successor of despicable anti-Semitism. Like all phobias, it’s based on irrational thinking not rational reasoning.
NR: When you don’t miss a chance to dump on Islam and Islamists as somehow more homicidal, you shouldn’t be surprised of being labelled Islamophobe. When you walk like a duck….