This is actually really complicated because of the way Christian identity is woven into colonialism, white supremacy, and the west overall. I fully agree with you that there’s a sort of new atheism that can and has been a deadly pipeline to hate and Islamophobia, but also, the growth in the population of unbelievers especially in the United States and Europe is imo a positive trend to breaking so many people free from delusions that keeps them living in a separate reality and creates a different flavor of Islamophobia alongside other bigotries against the LGBTQ+ community and many other groups.
This is actually really complicated because of the way Christian identity is woven into colonialism, white supremacy, and the west overall. I fully agree with you that there’s a sort of new atheism that can and has been a deadly pipeline to hate and Islamophobia, but also, the growth in the population of unbelievers especially in the United States and Europe is imo a positive trend to breaking so many people free from delusions that keeps them living in a separate reality and creates a different flavor of Islamophobia alongside other bigotries against the LGBTQ+ community and many other groups.
Not an easy subject to unpack