Bill Maher has always annoyed me with his obnoxious, smarmy, condescending brand of left-wing politics. Especially because he has sold himself for years as simply "politically incorrect" and not as an unapologetic leftist.
However, he has started to come around recently. While Maher will never be a conservative, and while he will never abandon the viewpoints he holds dear, the recent string of terrorist attacks has started to open his eyes about fellow leftists.
Specifically, he seems to be sickened watching fellow liberals make excuses for Muslims and accuse people of "Islamophobia", when the truth is stated that the entire Muslim community is somewhat to blame for the violence from extremists. Maher feels that mainstream Muslims are not condemning the violence or the extremists, and in fact many quietly support attacks like the one we just saw on Charlie Hebdo.
He is bothered that many liberals -- supposed champions of women's rights and gay rights -- are bending over backwards to support those in a religion which still strongly persecutes women and gays to this day. He doesn't understand why liberals keep telling people to understand and love the Muslims, while refusing to speak out against various human rights atrocities committed and approved by Muslims every day.
He's right, and you can tell that he's become frustrated that his "own people" have become so obsessed with "not stereotyping" and "not being Islamophobic" that they are closing their eyes to the truth.
Welcome to reality, Bill.
Far left liberals have always been out of touch with the truth and reality of the world. They live in an out-of-touch bubble of idealism which often bears no resemblance to real life. They espouse a belief that nobody is evil and everyone can be reformed with love and understanding -- unless you disagree with their political viewpoints, in which case you are the antichrist. Those on the far left complaining about "Islamophobia" today are the same types who insisted that violent criminals should get short prison sentences focusing on "rehabilitation" instead of punishment, especially if they "had a rough childhood" or grew up in a bad neighborhood. And then those same criminals left prison after a few years, only to commit more heinous crimes within a short time of being released. It took 30 years of sharply increasing crime in the US for a backlash to finally occur regarding this line of thinking.
Anyway, I enjoy watching videos like these, because I know that Maher is and always will be a liberal, but he has taken pause to finally understand the very correct criticism of the far left which he once found nearly infallible.