Lord help me, but I’m beginning to like, or at least respect, Bill Maher.  I’m no fan of snark, but I have to respect someone who is willing to think clearly about such important issues as women’s rights in Islam. An excellent example of this is his October 2 interview with left-leaning British academic Richard Dawkins.  The two of them, but especially Dawkins, make trenchant arguments for why those who cherish classic liberal principles should rebuke Muslims and their ideology of Islam for their many illiberal attitudes and actions, especially the subjugation of women.  In passing, Dawkins also excoriates academia for suppressing free speech. This is important stuff.  For well over a decade, brave and outspoken former leftists and liberals such as David Horowitz and Phyllis Chesler have pointed out that the left has aggressively defended Islam despite its violation of many values sacred to the left, especially but not exclusively...(Read Full Post)