samedi 3 août 2013

"Arab atheists, though few, inch out of the shadows"

From The Jakarta Post:




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Rafat Awad fervently preached Islam at his university, encouraging his fellow students to read the Quran and pray. But throughout, the young Palestinian-born pharmacist had gnawing doubts. The more he tried to resolve them, the more they grew.



Finally he told his parents, both devout Muslims, that he was an atheist. They brought home clerics to talk with him, trying in vain to bring him back to the faith. Finally, they gave up.



"It was the domino effect — you hit the first pin and it keeps on going and going," Said Awad, 23, who grew up in the United Arab Emirates and lives there. "I thought: It doesn't make sense anymore. I became a new person then."



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I think the Internet may eventually help undermine Islam, though it will probably take decades. Still, the Internet puts people in the Muslim world in touch with other ways of looking at the world than Islam, and that such people exist even in their own societies.



If every Muslim read The God Delusion, it would do themselves, their societies and by extent the world a lot of good. Not all of them would be atheists of course, but a lot of them probably would. The rest would perhaps become less absolutist in their faith, and as a result become more tolerant and moderate.





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