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http://www.iheu.org/new-global-report-discrimination-against-nonreligious
Haven't read it yet but wanted to share it here. Here are some highlights (taken from a couple of websites):
In Indonesia, Alexander Aan was jailed for two-and-a-half years for Facebook posts on atheism.
In Tunisia, two young atheists, Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji, were sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for Facebook postings that were judged blasphemous.
In Turkey, pianist and atheist Fazil Say faces jail for blasphemous tweets.
In Greece, Phillipos Loizos created a Facebook page that poked fun at Greeks' belief in miracles and is now charged with insulting religion.
In Egypt, 17-year-old Gamal Abdou Massoud was sentenced to three years in jail, and Bishoy Kamel was imprisoned for six years, both for posting blasphemous cartoons on Facebook.
The founder of Egypts Facebook Atheists, Alber Saber, faces jail time (he will be sentenced on 12 December).
The United Kingdom, for example, takes some heat from the report's authors for the increasing numbernow over 30 percentof state-funded schools run by church authorities.
And in the United States, the report describes a "range of laws [that] limit the role of atheists in regards to public duties, or else entangle the government with religion to the degree that being religious is equated with being an American, and vice versa." Seven statesArkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texashave constitutional provisions banning atheists from holding public office.
Haven't read it yet but wanted to share it here. Here are some highlights (taken from a couple of websites):
In Indonesia, Alexander Aan was jailed for two-and-a-half years for Facebook posts on atheism.
In Tunisia, two young atheists, Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji, were sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for Facebook postings that were judged blasphemous.
In Turkey, pianist and atheist Fazil Say faces jail for blasphemous tweets.
In Greece, Phillipos Loizos created a Facebook page that poked fun at Greeks' belief in miracles and is now charged with insulting religion.
In Egypt, 17-year-old Gamal Abdou Massoud was sentenced to three years in jail, and Bishoy Kamel was imprisoned for six years, both for posting blasphemous cartoons on Facebook.
The founder of Egypts Facebook Atheists, Alber Saber, faces jail time (he will be sentenced on 12 December).
The United Kingdom, for example, takes some heat from the report's authors for the increasing numbernow over 30 percentof state-funded schools run by church authorities.
And in the United States, the report describes a "range of laws [that] limit the role of atheists in regards to public duties, or else entangle the government with religion to the degree that being religious is equated with being an American, and vice versa." Seven statesArkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texashave constitutional provisions banning atheists from holding public office.