The ex-Muslim Britons who are persecuted for being atheists

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34357047

The ex-Muslim Britons who are persecuted for being atheists

Many people take for granted the right to choose to leave the religion of their childhood. But not everybody has that choice, writes Samira Ahmed.

It sounds like a crime from a medieval history book. Apostasy is the decision to renounce a faith and/or convert to another religion.

It's not recorded in the Census, but the 2011 figures show the number of people in England and Wales who say they have no religion nearly doubled in the 10 years since 2001 to a quarter of the population.

In the same time the number of Muslims in England and Wales grew by 80% to 2.7 million.

And among some of Britain's urban Muslims - nearly half of whom were born in the UK and are under 24 - there's a belief that leaving Islam is a sin and can even be punished by death.

An investigation for the BBC has found evidence of young people suffering threats, intimidation, being ostracised by their communities and, in some cases, encountering serious physical abuse when they told their families they were no longer Muslims.

There are also local councils that seem to have little awareness of the issue or any policy on how to protect these vulnerable young people.

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[JimC]

Fuck off, Islam...

[cronus]

Fuck off, Islam...

Easy to say over there. Here you'd be committing a thought crime saying that.

[Svartalf]

Islam is a blight and I say we must nuke the 3 most holy places in Islam, and push Iran to go back to Zoroastrianism...

[cronus]

Islam is a blight and I say we must nuke the 3 most holy places in Islam, and push Iran to go back to Zoroastrianism...

Dare you explain that in cartoons?

[Svartalf]

like a mushroom cloud on top of the kaaba?

[Rum]

I think it is an evil religion personally, though perhaps all are, with the possible exception of Buddhism. I took the time and trouble to actually read the Koran about a year ago. About a third of it is declarative, telling you what you should do (if you don't want to go to hell), a third tells stories, some of which are clearly shared with other religions - Judaism in particular and about a third - it really is a huge amount - is about how bad non-believers are what should be done to them. It is a nasty piece of work altogether..as if people didn't know..

[Forty Two]

Fuck off, Islam...

It's not all Muslims, man.

[cronus]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

[Forty Two]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

[cronus]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

You mean ;

?

[Rum]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

This man understands everything..and yet somehow nothing at all..

[Forty Two]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

You mean ;

?

Church music or German rock..... which makes me want to stab an ice pick through my eardrums more....?

[Forty Two]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

This man understands everything..and yet somehow nothing at all..

[Svartalf]

Not all Christians supported Blair/Bush in their religious war on Iraq (AKA Babylon etc....) except through faithfully paying their taxes.

Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Christianity?

You mean ;

?

excellent that one