Or it might be coming from progressives in the skeptic and atheist community who are cheesed off at his opinions and the hugely negative behavior as evidenced by that whole “Dear Muslima thing”.
Dawkins does not so much criticize the tennents of Islam as he obsesses over narrow generalizations about Islam drawn from very particular places and points in time. And very recent/modern ones at that. Often using those carefully chosen examples to smear vast groups of people who do not hold those beliefs. And he does so in a way. Using terms, arguments and ideas that are damn near identical to those uses by the alt-right, white nationalists. And those self same Christian groups your trying to lay the controversy on.
That’s bigotry homes.
“no dude he’s biased against all religions” and shadowy Christian smear campaigns also do little to address the shitty way he goes about interacting with women. His rote and often times outright antagonistic dismissal of feminism and any claims of bias against women. Except when it fits his current attack narrative.
Meanwhile I have seen curiously little push back on Dawkins over these issues from the religious right. Likely because they buy into his arguments vis a vis Muslim’s, women etc. And use the same claims and approach themselves. Their nut with him is almost always in regards to creationism, science, does god exist, and other classic “let’s debate god on tv” stuff.
Besides people have been complaining about this shit with Dawkins for years (I know I have). I remember seeing plenty of push back over his opinions on Islam like 20 years ago.
Eta:
Dawkins is above all else anti religion. More so than he is an atheist he is an anti-religionist. And whatever movement he has built it is chiefly built around attacking religion. But there is a difference between attacking Christianity in general. Or even stereotyping evangelicals and fundamentalists. And attacking Catholics using hoary old arguments with roots in ethnically driven, anti-catholic or anti-immigrant movements over the past century or so.
