Muslims and Atheism

by Ibn Warraq (March 2016)

The occupation of God in our minds is one of the most oppressive types of occupation.
— Abdullah al-Qasemi,  1907-1996

One could call the present age as the Golden Age of Atheism in the West. I have already cited the Pew Research Center’s polls about the large change in the number of people in the USA who describe themselves as “non-religious.” The American Religious Identification Survey [ARIS] gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers – 14,300,000 (8.4% of the population) to 29,400,000 (14.1% of the population) for the period 1990 to 2001 in the USA.  more>>>