Addressing the impact the Syrian refugee crisis has had on Europe on his HBO show Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher wondered where are the moderate Muslims in the region to help the people fleeing their homeland. Maher said "there just isn't room" for all the refugees in European countries.



"Not everybody in the Middle East can live in Europe," the HBO host said in the online-only segment Overtime which immediately follows the broadcast.



Maher said instead of relocating refugees they should be trained to fight for their country. He said it should be up to the Middle East to make the Middle East a better place to live.



"I don't know why we don't create some sort of system where we could train [Syrian refugees] to then go back to their own country and then fight for that country. Doesn't somebody have to stay in the Middle East and make the Middle East a better place to live?"



Jillian Melchior of National Review told the HBO host many Syrians are in a difficult position because they don't support Assad, but they also do not like the Islamic State.



"I talked to one Syrian guy, a young guy, and he was basically saying he feels pinched in the middle. He doesn't support Assad -- he's going to get cracked down on that. He doesn't like the Islamic State, either. He doesn't have weapons. He doesn't have anything to fight with. What's he going to do?" Melchior asked.



"Find other people to fight with," Maher responded. "I mean, where are all these moderates I always hear about? They say, 'Oh, Bill Maher, you're so hard on the Muslims. What about the moderates?'"



"The idea of 'if only you were tougher,'" Maher was told by guest panelist and former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY). "I don't really know if that's the answer."



"I'm all for the moderates," Maher said. "They're for me, too, by the way, real moderates. So, let's get a moderate army together."