[Maher:] Also this notion that somehow Islam and Muslims are this protected species, that if we talk about them at all, or criticize at all, it’s somehow hurting or humiliating Muslims. And that’s a ridiculous idea.

[Dawkins:] And it’s confused with racism as well, because an incredible number of people think Islam is a race.

[Maher:] Yes, oh, I’ve heard that, yes.

[Dawkins:] And so they think that if you criticize Islam, you’re being racist. And you’re absolutely right that the [repressive leftists] give a free pass to Islam where they’re kind of right about everything else — I mean, they’re right about misogyny and all the other … bad things … but in the case of Islam it just gets a free pass. And I think it’s because of the terror of being thought racist.

[Maher:] Right, or at worst, an Islamophobe … — a silly word that means nothing…. It’s so dumb because, you know, all the people that are accused of being Islamophobes — like you and me and Salman [Rushdie] and Ayaan [Hirsi Ali] — we’re liberals, we’re liberals about everything…. I knew we were on [black people’s] side [in the civil rights movements] and then we were on the side of Cesar Chavez and the lettuce pickers. And then we were on the side of the women’s movement and poor and minorities, whatever it was, gay people, disabled, the abused, the molested, whatever Caitlyn is up to, we were for it. And they applaud that, and if you say something about a woman who’s forced to wear a beekeeper suit in the hot sun all day —

[Dawkins:] Oh, that’s their culture, you have to respect it.

[Maher:] That’s right! That’s what they say. It’s just insane.

[Dawkins:] It’s just the one exception — liberal about everything else, but then this one exception, “It’s their culture.” Well, to hell with their culture.