Famed atheist and comedian Bill Maher has not won himself many conservative fans as the long running host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The show, a mix of comedy and politics, typically reserves Maher’s best quips and most righteous anger for those on the right.

Maher has most often used his show as a platform to argue against organized religion. What has surprised his left-leaning panelists and audiences in recent years, however, is that his distaste for religion extends to that of Islam.

“Liberals have to stop insisting that the world is the way they want it to be, instead of the way it is.”

While many on the Left pull the brakes when it comes to criticizing Islam, Maher has been firing from all cylinders in the wake of all-too-common radical Islamist terror attacks in recent months.

He has also called out liberals as a whole for failing to stick to their principles and for being hypocritical when it comes to radical Islam. He even found common ground on a recent “Real Time” episode with his least favorite presidential candidate — Donald Trump.

“Something that Trump said this week that made a little sense to me. He said, ‘I listened to Obama today, and he sounded madder at me than the shooter,'” Maher said in the wake of the Orlando shooting where a man who had pledged allegiance to ISIS killed 49 people in a nightclub.

Maher, as he has done before, critiqued the president’s inability to acknowledge certain problems within the Muslim world and the fact that radicals are killing people in the name of their religion.

Even in his response to the Orlando shooting, President Obama talked more about gun control and America’s inability to bend to his will on the matter, rather than the serious issue of radical Islam.

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“Of course it’s wrong when any Muslim-American is given a dirty look, asked extra questions, but it’s not the same as people getting shot. We have to put things into perspective,” Maher said in the same episode.

The talk show host has long found himself embroiled in controversy with his left-leaning audience for his views on the laws of certain Islamic countries — as well as the Left’s inability to acknowledge the problems for fear of being called Islamophobic or racist.

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“No one is saying that only bad things happen in the Muslim world … I am saying that you have to go where the preponderance of it is,” said Maher. “And there is no doubt most of it happens in this sphere … in the name of this religion,” he added.

The aftermath of the tragic Orlando shooting was not the first time Maher broke ranks with liberals to talk openly and honestly about Islam and the Middle East. After a heated debate with actor Ben Affleck on his show in 2014 about the state of Islam in the Middle East and the number of extremists to belong to the religion, a petition was created by students at Berkeley University who wanted Maher’s upcoming commencement speech nixed due to his alleged bigotry.

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The speech was not canceled, most likely due to the fact that the campus was celebrating the anniversary of free speech protests that occurred there 50 years before. That sort of irony would be tough for anyone to ignore.

In an interview with Vanity Fair about the Affleck controversy, Maher defended his arguments, saying, “These are facts. The World Economic Forum did a study of 134 countries around the world, on the subject [of the] treatment of women, 17 of the bottom 20 were Muslim countries. In 10 Muslim countries, you get the death penalty for just being gay.”

The figures Maher references do not exist just in his head. A Pew Research Poll from 2015 found that 99 percent wanted to live under the harsh and strict Sharia law in Afghanistan. The same poll found 91 percent in Iraq and 84 percent in Pakistan felt the same way.

While Maher may not be someone conservatives typically find themselves agreeing with, he should be applauded for long having the bravery to talk openly and honestly about something most on the left refuse to due to an adherence to a dangerous political correctness. “This idea that we can not even call it Islamic terrorism seems Orwellian to me,” said Maher .

Hate him or love him, Maher does a lot more good talking about Islamic extremism and radical terrorism than just about anything else.