More Facts on the "Religion of Peace"

It turns out that atheists might be suffering discrimination and death in many countries.  Now here is a BIG SURPRISE...all 13 of the countries that kill atheists are...wait for it....MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

(Reuters) - In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday.

And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West's apparently most democratic governments at best discriminate against citizens who have no belief in a god and at worst can jail them for offences dubbed blasphemy, it said.

"This report shows that the overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers although they have signed U.N agreements to treat all citizens equally," said IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx.

The study covered all 192 member states in the world body and involved lawyers and human rights experts looking at statute books, court records and media accounts to establish the global situation.
A first survey of 60 countries last year showed just seven where death, often by public beheading, is the punishment for either blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another religion which is also protected under U.N. accords.

But this year's more comprehensive study showed six more, bringing the full list to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In others, like India in a recent case involving a leading critic of religion, humanists say police are often reluctant or unwilling to investigate murders of atheists carried out by religious fundamentalists.

Across the world, the report said, "there are laws that deny atheists' right to exist, revoke their citizenship, restrict their right to marry, obstruct their access to public education, prevent them working for the state...."

Here;  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/10/us-religion-atheists-idUSBRE9B900G20131210

Sad.

Hey Reuters News Service...would you EVER dare to do a report on how many nations persecute, imprison, torture and murder Christians?

I wonder when the liberal media will wake up and say, "Hey...is it possible that Islam is a blight on humanity?  It seems that everywhere it goes it breeds poverty, ignorance, lack of innovation and violence."

Don't hold your breath....