Of Little Faith: World's Most Dangerous Places for Atheism........

[dimbear]

http://www.channel4.com/news/atheism-atheist-asylum-most-dangerous-places


Tuesday 14 January 2014 World
Of little faith: world's most dangerous places for atheists

As an Afghan citizen who is an atheist secures UK asylum for religious reasons, Channel 4 News looks at some of the countries where it is illegal to have no faith.

A demographic study in 2012 by the Pew Forum found that that roughly one-in-six people around the globe (1.1bn, or 16 per cent) have no religious affiliation.

This makes the unaffiliated the third-largest religious group worldwide, behind Christians and Muslims, and about equal in size to the world's Catholic population.

However, in some Muslim countries not having a religion is often spurned upon and in some cases carry the death sentence.

A report, published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) in 2013, found that the non-religious are still discriminated against, or outright persecuted, in some countries of the world.
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Afghanistan to Yemen............. wow.

[cbayer]

1. I don't know how many countries do this, but Pakistan requires that you list a religion

on your Passport. There is no option of none.

[rug]

2. China has one in six of all people. That's not a very impressive statistic.