While your own lived experience matters, I'm pretty sure this is a universal men problem. Minorities catcall differently, sometimes more loudly, but men of all colors do it quite a bit.

While I absolutely understand that calling a woman a cunt has a different and more abusive value than calling a man a cock, I'm not sure that should utterly destroy his ability to speak for the Left.

It's subtle. I'm getting that you might not buy his t-shirts...

I mean, if you call aggressive body-language, constantly interrupting, refusing to listen, and taking the opportunity to utter "shifty Jew" to be modeling restraint. Would he need to have flipped the table and punched someone to seem unrestrained to you? Sadly, he could have made some excellent points against Maher…

Compared to the Islamic world? Where it's often a capital crime to be gay? Yeah, we're a big old gay lighthouse of a beacon, where the light is rainbow-colored, and the foghorn says, "YASSSSSS!"

Which is to say, we're terrible. But our laws say it's a capital crime to kill anyone, gay or straight, and have for quite a…

I'd love to see your statistics on whether or not most Muslims universally hate their extremist fringe to the degree Jews and Christians hate and disavow theirs. I'm actually quite willing to believe "most," but what percentile? 99% or 51%? I do know that a staggeringly large percentage of Muslims support death to…

Minor quibble: You don't need to be a religious scholar to disprove religion. While I find Dawkins personally annoying, you're making the Courtier's Argument.

Yeah, Christianity is pretty bad too. Domestic terrorism is absolutely a problem. But Bill Maher has never been much of a fan of Christians either. His stance is that the secular west is objectively a better place to live than the theocratic Muslim world. Which, y'know. Is true.

Don't make the mistake of confusing cause for inspiration.

Yes, terrorism is CAUSED by sociopolitical factors — desperation among the poor, greed and ambition among the powerful, of course. But the idealogical inspiration for these acts is often couched in religion, and religions are not blameless when this happens.

There are LOTS of problems with Religulous. It's strident, and in many ways unfair. Jews get the gentlest portrayal, while Muslims get the harshest. Whether you feel that's deserved or not, it's problematic for a prominent western Jew to make such a film.

Y'know, if the lovable dirty hippies at my alma mater had objected to Maher for the myriad other ways in which he's problematic, I wouldn't mind a bit. He's said some awful things about women and as a feminist, I wouldn't want him speaking at a commencement.