"“I’ve said repeatedly that Bill Maher is not a bigot. I know him. We are friends. We hang out with each other backstage,” he told host Marc Lamont Hill. “He loves having me on the show despite the fact that we disagree on a lot of things.”" Let me translate: 1) Reza Aslan is not a friend of Bill Maher, at least from his own description. 2) Reza Aslan would really really like to be invited on Maher's show and for that he is willing to declare him a good Muslims.