Courage is Contagious

Bill Maher expose a disturbing statistic about British Muslims and questions why progressive activists are largely silent on the issue. Bill Maher: Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote an op-ed in the New York Times and said when it comes to the pay gap, abortion access, and workplace discrimination, progressives have much to say. But we're still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery, or female genital mutilation. Maajid Nawaz: This is a real problem. We have surveys that look at British Muslim attitudes to homosexuality. One in The Guardian reported that 0% of British Muslims said homosexuality is morally acceptable. A later ICM poll said 52% of British Muslims said that they would ban homosexuality. Yet at the same time, you've got leftist activists who are very concerned about gay rights within white communities. There are gay Muslims who need our help, feminist Muslims, liberal Muslims, ex-Muslims. Bill Maher: Most Muslims are not ISIS, of course. But size matters. How big is the number of those who are jihadists, people who are actually violent, versus Islamists, versus conservatives? Maajid Nawaz: After three jihadist attacks in the UK, the security services said we only have the capacity to monitor 3,000 suspected jihadists at any one time. Then they said, however, we really need to be monitoring 23,000, because that's how many there are out there in the United Kingdom. 23,000 jihadists ready to attack. Around those 23,000, imagine how many more are ideological bedfellows.