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AS152: An Atheist In A Muslim Country, Part 2

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today we continue the discussion with Adrian, an atheist who lives in a majority Muslim country. Lots more interesting stuff on part 2! Take a listen!

The post AS152: An Atheist In A Muslim Country, Part 2 appeared first on Atheistically Speaking.

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to Atheistically Speaking episode 152 with your host Thomas Smith.

0:37.0

All right, we're going to get to part two with our interview with Adrian.

0:41.0

Now he lives in a majority Muslim country and he's an atheist so that's

0:45.7

of course going to create some interesting observations and lead to some an interesting life I'll say.

0:52.3

Not one that I would necessarily want, but nonetheless he seems

0:57.2

to be getting along okay. Well, let's just get right back to that interview in which Adrian

1:01.6

is making another observation about the culture in which he lives. You're going to do.

1:13.0

And do you know?

1:15.0

Do you know? Do you?

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Do you?

1:18.0

Do you? Do you?

1:20.0

Do you? They're very particular on cleanliness, right? So you're reminded of that when you go to certain restaurants and there's a big sign that says

1:37.9

hala, right? And you go into some places where it says no or non-Halaal food not allowed here or you know like you're kind of reminded of that like oh yeah, you know, damn I'm I'm loving this bacon but I can't have it in this area not that you would not

1:56.5

that you would actually go and you know have a ham sandwich near or in a Halal restaurant or anything like that. But it's kind of

2:06.2

these small little details that you have to remind yourself of like, oh, you know, I'm I'm

2:11.6

definitely in a Muslim country and there's always going to be this double standard

2:16.8

where what you do right so like whether I was Christian or Hindu, my actions are magnified.

2:25.8

And the fact that I'm an atheist, it's magnified.

2:30.3

I can't, I'm going to go around and tell everyone not that I would but if I had a

2:38.8

group let's say I wanted to have like an expat group right of atheists I could probably do that

2:45.4

but it would start becoming problematic if I started inviting Muslims to it and

2:50.9

talking about it and let's say someone complained about that and say like oh I'm

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