Why do Atheists defend Islam?

[Regina]

I don't see very many atheists giving Islam a free pass. Islam gets more attention from some atheists than even Christianity does.

The double-standard highlighted by the OP does exist, but it's not so much from atheists, it's from the general political left in the West. It's more the postmodernists, leftists and feminists who will criticise Christianity to their hearts' contents and then uplift Islam. It's not so much atheists.

I get tired of the selective outrage, and whenever Islam comes up you can guarantee most people involved in the conversation have it. I get tired of people knocking down one religion only then to uplift another, and Christian right-wing sympathisers are just as guilty of this as the pro-Islamist left. I also get tired of (some! jfc some, not all) Muslims giving a bigger shit that someone looked at them funny in the street than they do that 100 people were gunned down.

Not trying to change anything. Mecha was discussing Muslims in UK, which is considered in the West.

But if you want to discuss Muslims from the Middle East, where I come from (a Middle Eastern country), Christians are generally just as extreme as Muslims. In my country, we have Christian militia/parties who thrive on violence. But the media doesn't tell you that, that's the problem.

I think if Christian militias were coming into Europe or America and killing people shouting God is great then the media would report on it.

I agree with this, you also see this with Islam. In The Middle East or Asia, takes a very massive Islamic terrorist attack, or one where Westerners were killed, for it to hit Western news. The Western media do not give a shit when Islamists hack local journalists to death in Bangladesh, but if the same thing happens in Paris it's front page news for weeks.