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Reddit atheism was called out at the time for being a veil for Western (and even Christian) chauvinism. It was mainly used as a justification of imperialist wars on Muslim countries.
This critique has born out, as Reddit atheist types (Dawkins, Elon) have since self identified themselves as Christian Chauvinists.
There's a lot of answers here, but I think this is the most useful.
There's lots of different ways to be atheist, but Reddit Atheism is a specifically Christian phenomenon; (typically) people who were raised in Protestant Christian culture, and stopped believing in God without really examining any of the other beliefs and underlying assumptions that came with it.
Being ex-religious in general seems to have some association with being especially toxic about religion. The most stereotypical New Atheist in this thread is declared to be ex-Muslim, for example.
and it's never from any sort of principled stance or understanding of Islam, it's just because for the last twenty years Muslims have been a socially accepted punching-bag in the english-speaking world.