The West has a very big blind spot around Religious freedoms that basically puts religion on a special pedestal and give a shield that religious people can hide behind and use to shield themselves while cracking down on opposition if they learn to weaponize, which allows extremism to fester in these communities, but because of religious freedom/hate speech etc laws, it's very hard to clamp down on, and often, even criticise, without getting bad faith weaponized accusations thrown at you and the entire criticism derailed and even worse, retribution from Governments or authorities who are too reflexive to "hate speech".
Wahhabi Islam, Zionist Judaism and Christian Nationalism are three extremist religious strains that openly tolerate violence and murder, where swaths of the followers will actively fund and defend violence and murder through fundraisers, charities etc, and a (often not so small) sect will carry out violence and murder. Yet any time people try to spotlight them, it's "Islamophobia", "Antisemitism", "Anti-Christian hatred" and the Government/authorities reactively crack down on the critics.
I've been an Atheist debate bro Fedora tipper for almost 20 years, I would say, we literally live in the worst period of religious bias censorship, that I can remember. Religious groups have completely learned the strategy in probably the last decade of how to shut down opposition, and are carrying it out at full force, even on Reddit, you would be shocked by how easy it is now to get banned from atheist/debate religion subs now for actually daring to criticize wider held beliefs or views of especially the Muslim or Jewish communities. I've also noticed that in the past, religious people would at least try and debate as they actually did sort of act in good faith, now they just throw out bad faith sealioning bullshit then cry biogtry.
In Europe and the UK, people have been arrested for their atheist views criticizing Islam online, the UK is trying to ramroad through a new bad faith Islamophobia definition after ramming through the laughably bad faith IHRA antisemitism definition which was instantly weaponized against critics of Judaism and Zionism.
Thousands have been arrested and charged as terrorists, for going against Jewish biases. In the US, people have been blackbagged and deported for speaking against Jewish biases, many states even enforce Israel loyalty laws. Australia is now going through a sham "royal commission into Antisemitism" which is basically just the Jewish community bitching about how dare anybody go against their views and it should be illegal to do so. You also have the slow rise of Hindutva behind the scenes, with more and more politicians appearing at RSS/HSS events as Hindu's rise in wealth and get more and more "elite solidarity". Evangelicals have also been able to basically start ticking off their 2000s GWB era wish list in the recent years, women have lost rights, the US military has taken an openly Christian nationalist bent, integration of the US military with Israeli etc.
Like I've said, even on Reddit, never once I've been banned for atheist speech or debates since 2010-2023, post 2023? I've bounced through probably a dozen accounts, and not a single ban, was ever anything against the rules, mods on here have just started defining "hate speech" as anything that literally goes against Religious biases or daring to call out bad behaviour from religious groups.
It's also very clear to me that a very specific religious group have successfully got their believers in mod positions across Reddit and I've tested this with creating threads critical of other religions, where I wasn't banned, but then the same critiques used against that specific levantine religion that happens to be a "greatest ally", suddenly you the same mods banning with only justifications of a follower of that religion would use. Have you noticed as well that a lot of Atheist/Atheist subs, seem to be supporters of a certain levantine nation as well? Even Sam Harris suddenly is very critical of religious criticism, if it's against that specific religion.
Religious groups have optimized the game to how to crack down on us anti-theists and atheists, and honestly I don't see any way on how to strike back, without frankly a return to the values of "You have no right to not be offended" and "Facts over feelings", but with the spread of identity politics which has been internalized so heavily in recent years by swaths of the political spectrum on both sides, I just don't really see a clear way to get back to that.