Atheism (reddit style) was promoted at that time to combat sand nigger terrorist religious ideology. These days the ruling class of the United States has new opponents: secular China and Orthodox Christian Russia. Since secular Confucian ideology is too similar to atheism of Hitchens, folks like him have been phased out, and now the new religion of the ruling industrialists is creationist simulation hypothesis.  

 Insightful 

 Of course he was.

He doesn't know ANYTHING about Islam, all his hate is based on what he sees on TV.

Just because the media tells us that so and so is a Muslim, doesn't actually make it so.

One of the biggest mistakes anyone can make is let the mass media decide if someone is a Muslim or not.

It's not like he knows any Muslims on a personal level where he can confer with them about Islam. It's not even like he actually tried to read the Quran. 

I'd even bet that he's linguistically challanged. 

 His. Ideas are rock solid.
I know. A lot of muslims and raised as such 

 Even if he was right, it doesn't mean his views were not downstream of a wider agenda  

 1. He lived and traveled in Islamic countries so any claims that he doesn’t have first hand experience with Islam are wholly unfounded.
2. Don’t conflate critiques of Islam with critiques on the Hussein regime. He was also well known for the later, often discussing the unique horrors of that totalitarian regime. His anti-Islam beliefs are substantial, but he gives an equal go at all religions, even State-religion (Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc). Which parlays into…
3. Not so much “anti-god” as he was anti-totalitarianism. He tried to wake people up from their Stockholm Syndrome, just as you would a citizen of North Korea. To refute an all seeing, all knowing dictator who can send you to eternal damnation for thought crime. 

 Im not even saying he didn't believe his views or that he didn't get a lot of stuff right. More I'm just questioning the extent to which he was fully independent from people above him. But I take your point 🤝 

 I just thought he was really annoying tbh 

 I will add that he was right when he called the “brights movement” cringe. That was indeed cringe. 

 I agree with him about how dangerous organized religion is but organized militant atheism (or militant scientism) can be much worse