Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher tore into a Democratic congressional candidate in Seattle for abandoning a key liberal cause to better appeal to Muslim sensibilities.

Maher targeted Melissa Chaudhry, a progressive Democrat and self-described “White American convert to Islam” who is challenging longtime Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., in Washington’s 9th Congressional District.

“A few weeks ago, a liberal Democrat named Melissa Chaudhry, running for Congress in Seattle, was asked why, among the many progressive causes listed on her website, LGBT rights was conspicuously absent. Because, she said, ‘A lot of Muslims do not feel that way…

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