Excellent article
It is definitely hatred for Christianity. I even sometimes wonder if these people are so enamored of a dictatorship of the proletariat that they really don't care if its a Caliph.
Christianity is the truth, and all liars hate the truth, regardless of their particular lie.
I think many atheists or materialists are weak in their own “convictions” and see a hero in Islam. Islam after all worships a rock. Making people objects of play is atheistic. Islam kind of put the devilish fun in otherwise demoralizing and dry atheism.
Atheists might claim there is no need of choice between devil vs. God, but myself with rocks, and what is done with them. Adam and Eve eating the fruit is the story of atheism and its delusions. But even that story of heir own history they choose to ignore or smoke out through Islam amongst other drugs or “opium religions”.