I don't see any claim that atheism has it's roots in the 9/11 attacks. The reviewer states "[The rise of the New Atheists] to fame, McGrath suggests, begins wit

I don't see any claim that atheism has it's roots in the 9/11 attacks. The reviewer states "[The rise of the New Atheists] to fame, McGrath suggests, begins with the attacks on 9/11 where radical Muslims turned commercial airplanes into missiles and managed to kill almost 3,000 people." He is referring to the 'rise to fame' of New Atheism. New Atheism and atheism are not synonyms of one another, the former is a member of the set of the latter. McGrath doesn't tie all atheists to Nazism (as the review might himself be implying), but deals with how the basic arguments of the form "Religion is bad, look at all these religious leaders who have killed people" doesn't work very well for quite a lot of reasons including how it could easily be turned around. In any case - I McGrath is a well respected intellectual in the UK (Oxford, along with Cambridge is our most prestigious university), and his writing is well worth considering.