Atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris face Islamophobia backlash

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20. You are slicing it the wrong way.

Bigotry is a certain type of opposition to a group. Among the criteria for calling opposition bigotry are hatred, violence, and broad-brushing. The defining characteristics of the group have nothing to do with whether opposition to it is bigotry or not. If someone expresses hatred, violence, and broad-brushing against a group defined by politics, or by ethnicity, or by nationalism, or by religious belief, or by soup preference, it is bigotry.

Your approach, saying essentially that opposition to a religion is always bigotry while opposition to a political category is never bigotry, is wrong; you're slicing it vertically when the definition of bigotry clearly requires you to slice it horizontally.

Inciting hatred and violence against people because they prefer beef minestrone instead of chicken noodle would be soup bigotry.