SIO69: Malaysian Officials Want To Hunt Down Atheists

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🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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You might have seen the news around Skeptic circles that Malaysian government officials want to hunt down members of an atheist group after a picture of a meetup went viral. Here's some coverage of it from Patheos. Well it turns out a long-time listener and friend of the show, Adrian, lives in Malaysia and is a member of the Atheist Republic group there! He's on today to tell us about so-called religious freedom in Malaysia, and what happened with this viral photo! Penalty for Leaving Islam is Death; Lina Joy's Case Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 69 I'm your host Thomas Smith just
0:34.8	gonna wait for the immature jokes okay done all done
0:37.8	uh... thanks for joining me today I've got an interesting interview you know you may have heard or seen in the
0:44.2	kind of skeptic news circles this story of a group in Malaysia that was part of
0:51.3	the atheist republic Facebook group but like a local
0:54.3	Kuala Lumpur chapter of it. There was a picture of a gathering that got leaked and
1:01.5	kind of went viral and then Malaysian officials, people in the government,
1:05.3	all kinds of people in Malaysia were calling for essentially violence and imprisonment and
1:11.6	other, all kinds of terrible things just for these people
1:14.3	having gathered under sort of an atheist banner. Now this is interesting because an old
1:20.2	friend of the show an old friend of mine named Adrian who I spoke to a long time ago on the show back
1:25.5	when it was atheistically speaking was actually in Malaysia and was actually a member
1:30.2	of this group now he wasn't actually there because he happened to be
1:34.2	traveling during when this meeting was but he was in the group he was going to go and
1:38.6	then the date got changed. So this is a really interesting opportunity to get a look into what was going on there.
1:46.0	He's going to explain the situation in Malaysia, the group, what happened, kind of the fallout.
1:52.0	So really interesting stuff, I'm really glad he reached out.
1:54.6	So here he is, here's Adrian. Hey Adrian, thanks for coming on the show. Now we talked a while back, right, back in the
2:14.1	atheistically speaking days. Yeah, back in the old days. Yeah, it has been a long
2:19.2	time, so if you don't mind, remind us who you are and we'll talk about a little bit about why you're here in a minute.
2:26.0	Well, thank you so much for bringing me on after I reached out to you and brought this up, but my main background is I was a teacher in Korea and I found out
2:37.2	about your show and I've been a patron in listening to the show since 2014 and I'm pretty outspoken atheist and in 2015 I moved to
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