Wait, what?

Via Newsbusters:

HOWARD FINEMAN, THE HUFFINGTON POST: …The women’s issue is one very important part of the equation. The other not-so-sub sub-text here is religion. It’s faith. These are – there was an attack in a Catholic Church in Nigeria where Boko Haram killed people.

MATTHEWS: Because they’re Catholics-

FINEMAN: Because they’re Catholics. And what the connective tissue here is – for the people attacking Hillary [Clinton] and Barack Obama – is that, somehow, they’re soft on Islamists. They don’t say it in quite those words, but that’s what they’re-

MATTHEWS: Because Obama is a Muslim–

FINEMAN: There you go; there you go – that is the subject-

BERNARD: Just for anyone who doesn’t really understand that you’re making a joke-

FINEMAN: If anybody who doesn’t get it-

BERNARD: We should say that he really is not a Muslim. (laughs) People who normally watch Fox might be watching us–

MATTHEWS: I’m translating – I’m translating for the clowns in the clown car–

FINEMAN: You and I know exactly how they’re connecting the dots. That’s what this is really about. This is as much about religion as it is about gender, and that’s the connection between Hillary and Barack Obama – that they’re somehow squishy on this thing.