New atheists singled out Islam as uniquely irredeemable among religions.

Evidence

For Hitchens, Maher, Harris, and this liberal crop of new atheists who believed “religion poisons everything,” Islam always stood apart as exceptionally and especially dangerous and utterly irredeemable. In The Guardian, I wrote, “For these new atheists, Islam is illegitimate because it is a religion, but unlike other religions, is distinctly threatening because it is inherently at odds with liberal values.” For Hitchens, Harris, Maher, and the next crop of liberal Islamophobes seduced by their polemics, religion was not necessarily the threat—Islam was. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 320

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘religion poisons everything’ framing the reader has catalogued in the global Islamophobia taxonomies from Iftikhar. — connects to: New Atheists transformed into strident Islamophobes indistinguishable from racists