We already posted the video to this story, but I wanted to draw attention to this mind-numbing comment.
Via AmSpec:
There has been a great deal of discussion about the exchange between actor/director Ben Affleck and Bill Maher over Islam on his HBO program over the weekend. Although Maher took part in the discussion, the main conflict was between Affleck and neuroscientist and Athiest Sam Harris. Like Maher, Harris doesn’t have much use for any religion. But, as with Maher, he doesn’t sugarcoat the problems within Islam and the threat they represent to other Muslims and the West.
What got Affleck going was Harris’ assertion that liberals have failed us on Islamic theocracy. Affleck responded by questioning Harris’ credentials and characterizing his position as “gross and racist” and an “ugly thing to say.”
There is nothing demagogic in Harris’ presentation. Harris calmly and carefully distinguished between Jihadists intent on murdering innocent civilians, Islamists who support the Jihadists but wouldn’t take up arms themselves and “conservative” Muslims who reject the actions of ISIS, al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, but support such things as death for those who leave Islam. But Affleck would have none of it and just called it “a lot of talk” and accused Harris of trying to condemn all of Islam. Maher did make reference to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I would love to see Hirsi Ali go one on one with Affleck.
Affleck said two revealing things. The first of which was his statement “We’ve killed a lot more Muslims than they’ve killed us by an awful lot.” Given that he and his childhood friend Matt Damon were reared on the writings of their neighbor, the late Howard Zinn in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, this sentiment is hardly surprising. It is also intellectually dishonest. Surely there is a difference between Muslim terrorists who deliberately set about to kill innocent civilians and American soldiers who end up killing Muslims in an effort to protect Muslims from Muslim terrorists.