Let that “brave” atheist post that sign within site of a Illinois Mosque and the hate crimes gestapo would have been all over him, if he lived long enough.
Good for him. This is a CHRISTIAN Nation.
Imagine a sign that begins, "In this season of Muharram [or Ramadan, or whatever lines up at the time], let truth prevail. There is no real god known within Islam as 'Allah,' and Muhammad really wasn't a prophet...."
Posting it next to a mosque would obviously be an horrible, deplorable example of religious bigotry and intolerance--if a Christian did it.
OK, perhaps you're thinking of reprisals; perhaps the Muslim world has a reputation for a conflicted relationship with other people. Next, then, imagine a vaguely similar sign posted next to a synagogue on the High Holy Days. You probably have a hard time conceiving of such a posting, even though Judaism, as a religion, presumably also "hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
But enough realization, for now, that groups that post signs like that have more going on below the surface than they profess.
Let's pretend for a moment that groups like that treated all religions equally. There is a sign like that next to the menorah as well, and someone stands next to the mosque door handing out leaflets with this message of inclusivity and dialogue.
Well, people who declaim "intolerance" and those horrible "exclusive beliefs" on the part of conventional religions probably shouldn't make loud polemics and ridicule their stock in trade.
Maybe they should reconsider even simple proclamations that All Other Beliefs About God Are Wrong. Remember, those religious people who claim that all other beliefs about God are wrong have "hardened hearts," but atheists who claim that all other beliefs about God are wrong have nice soft hearts or something.
And maybe there's a reason for the apparent double standard, but I've never been able to think of it.
Even if I were more intellectually disposed towards mainstream proselytizing atheism, the heart of the movement is filled with too many inconsistencies for me to affiliate myself publicly and proudly with it. (I notice this point especially as zealous Missionary Atheists happily pounce on anything smacking of religious hypocrisy or contradiction.)