The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) released “its seventh annual Freedom of Thought Report at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.” It listed the 10 best and the 10 worst countries for atheists.
The US ranked among the best, while Muslim countries, and particularly Sharia states, were the worst. No surprise there.
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Taiwan shared the No. 1 spot in the Top 10 best countries for nonreligious people list, followed by France, Japan, Nauru, São Tomé and Príncipe, Norway, the United States, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saudi Arabia was identified as the worst country for atheists, followed by Iran, Afghanistan, Maldives, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Mauritania, Malaysia, Sudan, and Brunei.
The IHEU report was in effect, a test of the tolerance of the citizens of various countries worldwide. Let’s keep in mind, meanwhile, that fascists deem freedom of thought and freedom of speech to be threatening to their rule. As we hear tale-bearers in Western societies incessantly tout “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” “tolerance,” and wide-open immigration policies, one wonders if they themselves actually believe what they are saying, since they routinely embrace the worst elements of humanity — those who in fact flatly reject “diversity” and are defiantly intolerant. As a result, Western societies are in grave danger of losing their status as havens of tolerance, pluralism, and freedom, thanks to globalists who think that migrants from the most intolerant nations will magically integrate, give up their faith in the Sharia, and accept Judeo-Christian values as their new norm.
What was the purpose of the study? And what will Western policymakers and so-called human rights activists actually do about it, if anything? The results of this study will likely lead to nowhere. The willfully blind will continue to promote their fanciful utopian worldview and blame truth-tellers for trying to wake people up.
“Top 10 Best, Worst Countries for Atheists Ranked: USA Among Best, Islamic Regimes the Worst,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, October 30, 2018:
A secular watchdog group has ranked the best and worst countries for atheists and non-religious people, finding the United States to be among the best, with Islamic regimes making up the worst.
The International Humanist and Ethical Union released on Monday its seventh annual Freedom of Thought Report at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, which for the first time included national rankings.
“This is a world’s first. For the first time our report will show, with authority and accuracy, the discrimination faced by people around the world because of their nonreligious beliefs. This report paints a dark picture, with significant discrimination faced by our nonreligious friends and colleagues around the world,” said Andrew Copson, president of the IHEU.
“At a time of growing nationalism, we continue to see those who are brave enough to criticize and critique conservative religious leaders demonized as ‘unpatriotic’ and ‘subversive,'” he added.
The rankings included considerations such as the approach to religious freedom by governments, as well as educational, societal, and freedom of expression issues.
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Taiwan shared the No. 1 spot in the Top 10 best countries for nonreligious people list, followed by France, Japan, Nauru, São Tomé and Príncipe, Norway, the United States, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Saudi Arabia was identified as the worst country for atheists, followed by Iran, Afghanistan, Maldives, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Mauritania, Malaysia, Sudan, and Brunei.
“In the worst spot, Saudi Arabia comes into particular criticism for a 2014 law defining the ‘promotion of atheist thought in any form’ as terrorism, and for the prosecution of liberal activists and campaigners generally, including a death sentence handed down in 2017 for an alleged ‘apostate,’ Ahmad Al-Shamri, on the accusation of atheism,” IHEU noted…..
Elisha says
“The International Humanist and Ethical Union …”
Goodness me, the secular humanist delusion is as bad, if not worse, than the islamic delusion. Their worldview CANNOT account for reason and morality as they exist outside the material world which apparently is all that exists. The philosophical delusion of Darwinism spawned Marxism which, in turn, has enabled the rise of islam in the West. The subjective “morality” of secular humanism is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in LESS than the last 100 years. I wonder how safe all those people thought they were apart from islam, especially the defenseless, unborn humans? Seriously, when will you people wake up? Jesus Christ defeated Satan at Calvary and He will return in Judgement. Seek this truth in your hearts with courage and humility and you will know Him and be saved.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. – Hosea 4:6
Salome says
Is that the atheist church?
gravenimage says
Do you want to see Atheists persecuted as they are in the Muslim world?
Rolf Wittwer says
Incredible intolerant United Arab Emirates and Brunei: they know NOTHING about their wealth.
But they think “the religion of peace” is behind it….!
Intellectual in the stoneage, but rich, thanks to the (atheistically) hated western civilization!
Savvy Kafir says
Elisha — If you believe that Christianity, or any other religion based on a magic book, accounts for the development of reason, you really don’t have a good understanding of “reason”, or of history.
Indiana Tom says
Thomas Cahill would disagree.
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (The Hinges of History)
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (The Hinges of History)
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (The Hinges of History)
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (The Hinges of History)
gravenimage says
Fine work from Thomas Cahill.
Indiana Tom says
I suppose you could be an atheist in Arabia and just go through the motions. Public proclamation of atheism might be a more interesting story.
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia the worst country for atheists, followed by nine other Muslim countries
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Dar-al-Islam is hideously oppressive of anyone with other beliefs.
Roderick MacUalraig says
So true. They hate freedom of mind and spirit.
I wonder how many men & women that consider themselves Atheists come to this site to gain knowledge about the threat that Islam is to their freedom from belief.
I wonder how many care.
gravenimage says
There are a lot of Agnostics and Atheists here at Jihad Watch.
We all need to stand together against the threat of Islam.
Tin says
The Netherlands? Geert Wilders home country? The country Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled? Are you effing kidding me?
This report can not be credible.
Aussie Infidel says
I am an atheist and a Humanist – and have been for over 60 years. And I have been an opponent of Islam for just as long, having known literally hundreds of Muslims throughout my life. Some of them were wonderful people, despite the dozens of verses which inspire violence in the Quran and the other Islamic scriptures. We must always differentiate between Muslims (the people) and Islam (the ideology). It might surprise some of the more militant Christians who blog here – and who I have occasionally crossed swords with in the past – that Humanists, although atheists, defend freedom of religion and all the other freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human rights. So I won’t bother to reply to some of the earlier comments. Suffice to say that if we want to defeat Islam, we need to unite in our fight against this abhorrent ideology, not fight amongst ourselves; or as sure as night follows day, we will loose.
Some 15 years ago, the IHEU representative at the UN, Roy Brown, warned Humanists about the agenda of the OIC at the meetings of the UNHRC. But his warning went largely unheeded because most Humanists are leftists. Unfortunately, the Left’s obsession with diversity, political correctness and multiculturalism, has coloured their view of Islam as a ‘religion of peace’, and Muslims as welcome immigrants. But there is an unholy alliance between the Left and Islam to deny citizens freedom of religion and speech, and to annihilate Western culture. Those foolish atheists who support Islam fail to recognise that if they help the Muslims defeat their old enemy (Christianity), they will be next on the jihadist’s hit list.
NGO delegates speak at the UNHRC on freedom of religion and human rights. Roy Brown’s speech (his last at UNHRC) is no. 17.
http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/clustered-id-contd-sr-on-privacy-and-on-religion-24th-meeting-31st-regular-session-human-rights-council/4793400332001#player
Some Muslims also oppose their more militant ‘brothers’ – but they have to be very careful what they say and do, or their lives will be in danger.
https://muslimsfacingtomorrow.com/a-report-from-the-21st-session-of-unhrc-in-geneva/
gravenimage says
I stand with you, Aussie Infidel!