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If I'm trying to make a point with a single bolded sentence I would maybe choose my words carefully and not use the term for a broad group if I'm talking about a specific subset. They didn't say 'the new-atheism movement' they said 'atheism'.
If I was ignorant on how fascism have been again entrenching itself in western society over the last 20 years, on how and through which pipelines ideologies were spread I would at least stay silent instead of trying to pull out semantics :v
So I guess by your logic it's fair to say Islam is terroristic. Obviously distinguishing between the broader Islamic community and boko haram or al qaeda is just semantics.
This is about how Atheism can (and has) be used for colonialism, not that it necessarily follows or must be an integral part of it.
Ironically the New Atheist movement primarily just recycles crusader-age Christian propaganda