The way I see it, the people over at HA applauding this are using it as an excuse to attack and insult Allahpundit by way of Hitchens. Hidden or not so hidden the applause and rationalization is indeed to also attack atheism.

Ironically, the secular Left will attack Hitchens and applaud this incident because of Hitchens support of the Iraq War. The Christian Right will applaud this attack because of Hitchens atheism or as he sometimes says, “anti-theism.” To that end one can say that the secular left and the Christian Right have found a common bond.

Not unlike the Communists and the Neo-Nazi parties of the 1930s.