Why do Atheists defend Islam?

[God of Mr. Hanky]

That's probably the reason right there: Islam is an ideology, yet most people don't know that, they just see you being critical and they conclude that you must be a hater, a trouble maker, the problem not the solution.

Most people have no clue about the doctrine and history of Islam, and the barbaric example of Mohammed. It's beyond their comprehension that a religion could offer paradise for being killed/martyred while fighting to defend/expand the religion. All they see is you being "hateful".

And that gets to another deep reason why people defend Islam, because if we admit that Islam is not a religion of peace, then we have to admit that Muslim immigration is a catastrophic mistake, which brings the whole edifice of Western sanity crashing down. It reveals that the Western world, at its heart, is completely insane, and there's nobody in the driver's seat. Rather, we're driving headlong over a cliff. And that's just too crazy for people to contemplate.

That's part of the reason that Obama refuses to call terrorists Islamic, because it will logically put the spotlight on Muslim immigration. But Obama identifies with brown people and Muslims, and doesn't want to stop Muslim immigration, no matter what the cost to national security.

Islam is ridiculous. Mohamed was not a prophet. There is probably no Allah. Terrorism is unjustified.

Find me an atheist here who will disagree with what I just said. Yet, I am one of the atheists that you think 'defend Islam'. Because you can't tell the difference between 'defending Islam' and 'defending innocent Muslims'.

Islam is derived from Christianity and you can go up to a person on the street in America and read them verses out of a Bible disguised as the Koran and have them nodding their heads in agreement over how barbaric Islam is.

Islam is not a religion of peace. The only peaceful religions I can think of are the Jains, Quakers, and Unitarians...though I may have to add Ahmadi Muslims to that list, if I'm going to break it down that finely. But they all claim to be about love and peace.

Muslim immigration has been a resounding success. They integrate well, pay taxes, and in general are proud, patriotic Americans whose sons and daughters offer their lives in the service of our country.

What's insane is thinking there is a scenario where Muslims, even if they wanted to, can have enough power in America to override our Constitution. They're less than 3% of our population. Add 100,000 and they're still less than 3% of our population. And if we ever feel like we have too many Muslims, we have a country next door with all the Catholics we could want.

There's no problem with calling the terrorists 'radical Islamists', because that is actually an accurate term for them. Calling terrorists Islamic is like calling parents who beat their children to death trying to follow Biblical child-rearing advice Christian. It implies that they are following their religion correctly. That's not a good message to send.

Oh, get off your high horse, Mr. Defender Of The Innocent!

Nobody is arresting Muslims who don't support terror by exercising their 1st Amendment right to criticize Islam, and it deserves that more than any other world religion on account of worldwide terror being practiced in its name. The fact that not every Muslim is involved in Islamic terror is greatly overshadowed by their silence on terror, on genital mutilation, on oppressive misogyny, on bigamy, on the most barbaric excuses for justice since the 7th Century, the murder of "apostates", and fatwas to intimidate...CRITICISM OF ISLAM!!

While leaders of every other world religion jump to disassociate themselves wherever such atrocious horrors are known, Muslims implicate themselves through their apathy, regardless of how they practice their religion. They do this because they really don't respect the rights of people with ideas which are different from theirs, so rather than respond to distance themselves from the Paris attacks they do what they wish to, giving the world the finger. They know they can get away with it while stupid Western journalists enable them!