it's an easier scapegoat, i guess. it makes it easier for america to align it's foreign policy objectives with islamic fascism, and for the mainstream narrative to attack a group that is inherently secular, rather than one that suffers from the mental illness of faith.
i don't really care, frankly. it doesn't change anything of any substance for me, as an individual. i have never cared what religious conservatives thought about me before and i don't really care now. they can continue to go fuck themselves. i will continue to defend myself from attacks by religious extremists. i have never been attacked by a christian, but i'm constantly defending myself from attacks by muslims. that's been a constant, and this doesn't change that.
i'm a little more concerned about shifts in us foreign policy towards an alignment with islamic fascism, and out of an opposition to it. it's these shifts in foreign policy that are going to create more substantive shifts in the global order that are going to put everybody's freedom in jeopardy. my freedom was already in jeopardy, anyways.