A collection of positions held by some atheist (don’t believe in existence of a god or gods) personalities in the 20th and 21st centuries. Broadly, the New Atheist movement, rather than merely disagreeing with religion, holds that religion, and whatever they regard as superstition and irrational, are argue that religion should be criticised and challenged, delegitimised, neutralised or even rendered extinct altogether. The Islamophobic and War on Terror response to the 9/11 attacks was a major factor in increasing the prominence of New Atheism. In practice, New Atheism has been strongly associated with white, middle/upper-middle class men, especially those sympathetic to reactionary politics. Though it now seems to have mostly fractured as a cohesive movement, its legacy continues in its advocates’ move towards far-right causes.