re: #9 Desmond

Displace yourself in time a short distance, to when conditions in rural America were the same as the conditions in some rural muslim countries and you would find the same attitudes. Our “enlightenment” is only recent, so no Bill Maher is not “sort of right”. Until just recently in Utah you could request beheading as your means of execution if you were on death row. The last decapitation punishment in a democracy happened in 1977. You’ve defeated your own argument, and Bill’s point. As you pointed out, in the sixties and seventies, stewardesses on Pakistan Airlines wore mini-skirts. So the current wave of fundamentalism is not the religion or muslims per se, but a dangerous and violent subsect, no where near as prevalent as you or Bill would paint them.

You can find the same repressive attitudes and culture in Sub Saharan African CHRISTIAN countries like Eritrea and Nigeria, where they still burn witches and agitate to put gays to death. So like Bill you are still failing if you are trying to make it “Muslim” thing.