re: #9 Desmond

If these are in fact the prevailing views of society in many Muslim countries…

That’s a pretty big ‘if’, and citing Maher doesn’t count as verification. Harris mentions a poll of British Muslims, as though it is representative of something. I doubt there is enough polling and statistics to support a claim of “Islam is the motherload of bad ideas”. Even from an atheist who thinks all religions are loads of bad ideas, it is nothing but ignorant (possibly profitable) bigotry on Harris’s part to single out Islam as ‘the motherload’.