Bill Maher roasts ‘insane’ liberals for not calling out Islamic extremism The HBO host blasted 'the people who are purporting to uphold liberalism' for staying quiet on the issue

(Fox) Bill Maher used his “Club Random” podcast on Monday to slam those who will not defend free speech, hammering fellow liberals as “insane” and “backwards” for failing to call out Islamic extremism.

Maher had evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as a guest, where the two criticized the assumption that if you believe COVID originated in a lab, “you were a Republican.”

“That’s insane,” Maher said.

Maher and Dawkins discussed the decision by the Sundance Film Festival to pull a Guantánamo Bay documentary entitled “Jihad Rehab” after left-leaning groups said it “promoted harmful stereotypes about Islam.”

“We’ve come to this place where you can’t even go near a topic, certain topics, without the mob coming after you,” Dawkins said.

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