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Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people in Arab world tell about the various ways they get around while avoiding persecution
In the Middle East and North Africa, where religion is often ingrained in daily life's very fabric, rejecting faith can come with consequences. So, many of the "nones," a group that includes agnostics, atheists and "nothing in particular" conceal that part of themselves. Openly declaring disbelief may spur social stigma, ostracism by loved ones or,…
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There’s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman who, until recently, wore a hijab. And a man whose Egyptian identity card still identifies him as “Muslim.” Such are the ways that some of the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones” — people who are agnostics, […]
There’s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. Such are the ways that some of the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones” — people who are agnostics, atheists or nothing in particular — negotiate their existence in the Middle East and North Africa where religion is often ingrained in life’s very fabric. In Muslim-majority countries, they’re in the minarets defining skylines, the headscarves donned by many women, the omnipresent call to prayer that beckons the faithful five times a day, and the r...