Why do Atheists defend Islam?

[Anomalocaris]

I don't know about Atheists defending Islam, but a lot of liberals sure seem to. I too have noticed the double standard with Christianity vs Islam in the American liberal mentality. Like, it's ok to bash Christians/Christianity but politically incorrect to do it to Muslims/Islam. Considering Islam is much more extreme and far right on social issues, I too don't understand why this is the case. The only thing I can think of is that us small minded Americans generally tend to think of Christians as white/European descent and Muslims as brown/Arabic. So it becomes a "minority" type thing.

Islam has little influence in parts of the world where overwhelming majority of scientific, technological, economic and Societal is being made, or has been made in the last 500 years.  It is the religion of marginalized that has no hope of rejoining the mainstream of human progress on their own terms.   It is annoying, but it is no serious long term threat to future human progress in general.

Christianity all together different, and it is for that reason still all together a much bigger, more persistent, more unscrupulous and more wily long term threat to the future of humanity overall than Islam.

It's not a brown/white issue. It is disease of the skin vs disease of the brain issue for the long term future of humanity overall.