Ben Affleck vs. Bill Maher on Islam: Bill's right.

[True Blue Door]

110. The only reason Israel is important is that Muslims obsess on it.

Israelis and Palestinians together are two-thousandths (0.2%) of the world's population, and the land they occupy would be virtually worthless if the land that surrounds it in most directions weren't even more worthless.

Not many people in the Islamic world would care about the struggles there if the Israelis and Palestinians were both Islamic peoples, or if their relative power ratio were reversed. The oppression of religious minorities in Muslim countries is a footnote in the Western media, and nonexistent in the strictly controlled media of Muslim countries, where such mentions might be deemed blasphemous.

But because it's Jews dominating Muslims, that's driven a froth of unhinged rage for decades, and it's an example of the problem with the state of Islam. So while the blood of a million Congolese might disappear into the soil with some half-hearted international aid programs and below-the-fold news articles for a few days, the convulsions of Israel and Palestine across a few neighborhoods and streets command global attention.

It's just one of the many insane, irrational consequences of Islam.