Comedian and podcast host Bill Maher explained the moment he knew liberals “lost their way” after he criticized “traditional Muslim societies” for their treatment of women.
Maher was joined by Sharon Osbourne on his Monday edition of “Club Random” when the two began discussing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Maher said the couple played the victim and people “got sick of them” before he gave props to Harry, who served in the British armed forces. Osbourne then said despite the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to take over.
“The great thing that the famous line from the Afghani says to any of those Westerners who tried to take over, but it could be an American, ‘you’ve got the watch, but we’ve got the time.’ That’s really what it’s about. We have the equipment and they’re like, ‘Yes, we’ve seen this before, we can wait you out.’ They did. Girls are now in the situation they were before we got there. The Taliban are not big on girls schools, they’re not big on girls getting educated, and how liberals can be on the wrong side of this issue is the biggest mind-boggler for me,” Maher said. (RELATED: ‘As If We All Haven’t Thought That’: Maher Defends Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Comment)
“Somehow when I criticize traditional Muslim societies for the way they engage in what you have to call gender apartheid, putting fucking bags over women’s heads, you’re actually putting a fucking bag over a chick’s head, but I’m the bad guy because I’m pointing this out. You’re the liberal and you’re on the other side of this issue? Really? Because that’s ‘Islamophobic’ or whatever bullshit word you want to call it. Really? I’m not the– Okay. That’s when I knew they had lost their way when they got that issue wrong after 9/11. That’s when it– okay. Things have switched up now.”
Maher then drew a comparison between the Afghanistan withdrawal and the pullout in Vietnam.