On his radio program on Thursday, host Adam Carolla praised Bill Maher for his recent comments about Islam, for which Maher suffered some backlash. Carolla says people should be happy to criticize Islam’s brutal treatment of women (language warning):
The “it’s not all Muslims” is a non sequitur trotted out by people who don’t want to talk about it. It’s like saying “you know, we should do something about bears stealing pic-a-nic baskets” and the only response you can get is “well not every bear steals them, Boo Boo.” That’s not even the issue. It’s not even the question.
There are facts that have to be faced in life whether they are uncomfortable or not. But liberals only like Inconvenient Truth when it’s only inconvenient for white Christian Americans and isn’t the truth. Otherwise they like to keep quiet.
Transcript from RCP:
Carolla: And I just like the idea that he says what he says and does what he does. I think Real Time, not last week, but the week before… I’ll just play you a little snip-it that ran a few weeks back. I like the guy because he stands up against the hypocrisy that many folks like Arianna Huffington, who was on the show, how they treat the Muslim religion which is, hey, it’s not the majority of the Muslim religion, but it’s a large enough group to have a negative impact on. Especially women’s lives that somebody should be coming down on these people for this activity. And if they were Christians, they would be but you guys can’t judge except for they are throwing acid in the face of schoolgirls so somebody should say something. And Bill Maher says something, which I like…
[PLAYS AUDIO FROM REAL TIME]
CAROLLA: By the way, is that what he said, that all Muslims are the problem?
ROSEN: No, not even close.
CAROLLA: Why does an intelligent woman like Arianna Huffington, what you just said is that all Muslims are the problem when he said the exact opposite. He said, basically, that is the liberals on campus that are bending over backwards that are defending them that is the problem. Or, if at least it’s not the exact opposite, it’s no where near —
“BALD BRYAN” BISHOP: It’s not close.
ROSEN: It was so not close to what he said that it makes me wonder what they were talking about before we started this because it just seems like did she really not hear what he said? Maybe she didn’t.
CAROLLA: She wants to be on the happy side of this issue so she gets to be the one who says that, meanwhile, tell that to the fucking schoolgirls who are being rounded up and being tortured or used as sex slaves or whatever the fuck is going, Arianna Huffington. You should be more happy to judge cultures that are brutalizing women. And, of course again, we get back to that stupid argument, ‘Not all, not all. Yes, it’s never all anything so why even get into ‘all?’
[Audio replayed]
CAROLLA: That’s why I love Bill Maher. Yes, they’re all the problem, but this especially. That’s what I like about Bill Maher. And yes, that’s what’s going on, and I don’t know other than the holier-than-thou, pardon the pun, I’m going to be on the right side of every fucking topic. Why are you defending the ground that is doing heinous things to women?