Why are Atheists afraid to insult Islam and Jews?

[Hatshepsut]

• "Bigot" now we've gone from "insult" to "bigot"...
  
• "Freethinker" and words like "humanist" are far too often...
  
• another code argument people use shut down a conversation...
  
• Closed minded... Bigoted would be still insisting...
  

(rearrangement of quoted material mine)

As Star Trek's Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating." First, two formerly unrelated words, insult and bigot, are now married to each other in most discussions that touch the topics Political Correctness oversees. Then another pair of formerly unrelated words, humanist and atheist, became aliases for anti-theist as well as for one another. Among the most common codes foreclosing a conversation is rape apologist. Bigotry has moved far from advocating "coloured" water fountains to the least suggestion that Michael Brown's behavior may have contributed to his demise last year in Ferguson.

Political Correctness indeed represents a major shift in the English language and has altered our logic just as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis predicts it might. It's really PC that is afraid of offending Jews or Muslims over religious sensibilities, although its conception of historical oppressors and proclivity for deconstruction require Christians now be fair game. Bill Maher and Sam Harris deviate significantly from PC in this respect.

Thanks for the multicultural Facebook spectrum sample of atheism, however.