Sam Harris has written a brief response on his website expressing his discontent after a Muslim parliamentarian, during last Friday's broadcast of Real Time with Bill Maher, bloviated a most earnestly dishonest apology for Islamic terrorism.
As it is now a trend among educated western Muslims, the tendency to disavow the actual scripted tenets of their faith, has become ever more grating by the day. They conveniently reinterpret the ghoulish verses in the Koran in a way that renders them as little more than a horrific metaphor. Sam Harris designated five pages of his book to exposing some of the most ill-willed and indubitably hostile verses in the Koran, but when confronted with these, (as witnessed by Maher's youtube video on the link shown above) Muslims almost perfunctorily dismiss them as simply a case of isolated quotation taken out of context. One is then anxious to ask: In which context then, are these overtly cruel and bigoted propositions justifiable?
I also would like to know if, in this case, Representative and Islamic apologist Keith Ellison's insouciant response to actual Islamic threat is indeed deliberately cynical or simply misinformed. I just wish Bill would have drilled him more with direct quotations from the book. Quotations so conspicuously ghastly that even if Keith decided to evade them by pulling the out-of-context card, the egregious reading had stayed engraved in the minds of listeners.
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