Maher has partially apologized for his remarks on the ABC Politically Incorrect web site.
For those who missed it, on his show Maher said that the terrorists who flew into the WTC were not cowardly, as some have called them, but courageous for dying for their beliefs. He also said that it was cowardly for the US to use cruise missles from hundreds of miles away.
He apologized for any implication that our military was cowardly, and qualified his statement to say that politicians who made those decisions were cowardly.
Maher is ignorant and insensitive, and I have chosen to stop watching him. His statement about the courage of the terrorists was 100% wrong. Islam is based on peace, but it has a strong warrior tradition, and a strong warrior code. Their warrior code includes a total prohibition on killing women, children, and non-combatants. The terrorists were complete cowards in targeting innocent people and not confronting their perceived enemy face to face.