Time for atheists to take a hard look at ourselves

[Nevernose]

191. The question to ask is why? Is it bigotry?

Or is it just pragmatism? For instance, here's a list of all the world's current major conflicts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

With the exception of Ukraine, Mexico, Burma, and Papua New Guinea, all of the world's major conflicts involve Muslims in some way, and usually Islam is one of the motivating factors in the conflict. That's about 95% of the current wars in the world.

If some other religion was causing -- or at least greatly contributing to -- atheists would be speaking out against it.

Another question to ask might be: is it purely out of ignorance? For instance, if you asked most Americans about terrorism and Islam, most people (probably even including American Muslims) would say that it was primarily Muslims doing the terrorism. But that's not even close. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html

Ironically, I find this a difficult conversation to have -- the one in which we try and bridge the gaps between Islam and atheism -- because at least in America, both groups are discriminated against by the majority and are thus distrusting of any sort or criticism.