As atheists go, I followed Christopher Hitchens, as well as Sam Harris and sometimes Dawkins.
I don’t agree with them, but found them intellectually honest, and not prone to slogans. Sam Harris especially admits that he respects Christians much more than others, because, the simple fact is, they do not condone or promote religious violence as Muslims do.
Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, and Bill Maher are/were the ones most willing to subject Islam to the critique it deserves. Over on reddit’s /r/atheists, they’re having a fit because Sam Harris said Ben Carson understands the Middle East better than Noam Chomsky.