Death to the infidels (that's you and I) - Man the barricades!

[mondrian]

(Reuters) - In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday.

And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West's apparently most democratic governments at best discriminate against citizens who have no belief in a god and at worst can jail them for offences dubbed blasphemy, it said.

"This report shows that the overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers although they have signed U.N agreements to treat all citizens equally," said IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx.

The study covered all 192 member states in the world body and involved lawyers and human rights experts looking at statute books, court records and media accounts to establish the global situation.

A first survey of 60 countries last year showed just seven where death, often by public beheading, is the punishment for either blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another religion which is also protected under U.N. accords.

But this year's more comprehensive study showed six more, bringing the full list to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In others, like India in a recent case involving a leading critic of religion, humanists say police are often reluctant or unwilling to investigate murders of atheists carried out by religious fundamentalists.

Across the world, the report said, "there are laws that deny atheists' right to exist, revoke their citizenship, restrict their right to marry, obstruct their access to public education, prevent them working for the state...."

Criticism of religious faith or even academic study of the origins of religions is frequently treated as a crime and can be equated to the capital offence of blasphemy, it asserted.

This is bleedin' 2013 ffs, not 1713. This twatting world is getting more fuckin' religious not less. Is this fuckin' world mad? Are we the only sane people on this planet? What has the world got for brains? Shit?

Fcuk man, at least this place is a safe haven for us atheists - at least for now anyhoo.

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does allah not condone the civilizing of his peen gobblers? i claim no god yet my morning shit bests the architecture inside the countries of these pig fuckers

[Smellyoldgit]

I spent a good few of my younger years helping the residents of the sand-box to get their oil from under their blazing hell and into my car. I still get occasional calls to go back and do more dirty work for the fat, lazy fuckers - for huge sums of money. Let it be well documented - they can all go get shagged with the thick end of a lighthouse - my desire to star in my own beheading video is zero, zilch and unlikely to rise one gnat's cock.
.... but of course, the PC brigade has me down as a raging islamophobic nutter, but as long as the head choppers get their air-time, I'll stick to my milk round and be quite happy living in relative poverty.

[mondrian]

Smellyoldgit wrote

I spent a good few of my younger years helping the residents of the sand-box to get their oil from under their blazing hell and into my car. I still get occasional calls to go back and do more dirty work for the fat, lazy fuckers - for huge sums of money. Let it be well documented - they can all go get shagged with the thick end of a lighthouse - my desire to star in my own beheading video is zero, zilch and unlikely to rise one gnat's cock.
.... but of course, the PC brigade has me down as a raging islamophobic nutter, but as long as the head choppers get their air-time, I'll stick to my milk round and be quite happy living in relative poverty.

When I was out there, my boss picked me up at the airport when I first landed and said 'Here's two buckets. Into one the country will pour shit and into the other the company will pour money. Go home when the bucket containing the shit outweighs the bucket containing the money.

The other saying was: First year for need. Second year for greed. Third year for brain damage.