A reader writes:

I see that you have put up a link to Bill Maher's HBO program without acknowledging the virulent and bigoted anti-Muslim comments he made - comments that put the controversial words of Juan Williams into the category of benign. Why no criticism of Maher's comments, at least equal to the overblown remarks that you made about those of Williams? I gather it is safe to assume that you will continue to appear on Maher's program.

I missed that, but upon viewing it, it appears that Maher made a stupid, and bigoted generalization about English babies being called Mohammed leading to some inevitable future of Sharia law - an unproven fantasy nicely smacked down by Reihan. The obvious logical problem: why wouldn't second or third generation British Mohammeds turn out as atheists? Or stoners? Or agnostics like the rest of them?

Should HBO fire him for being mean about a religion?