Bangladesh starlet apologises after 'atheist' comments

[trotsky]

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/459247-bangladesh-starlet-apologises-after-atheist-comments

A Bangladeshi actress has been forced to apologise after remarks construed as admitting atheism in a country where people have been murdered for renouncing religion.

Safa Kabir, an actress and model who has appeared in top Bangladeshi television dramas, told a private radio station this week she did not believe in the afterlife.

"I don´t believe in life after death. Actually, I never believe in what I can´t see," she said, in comments that some took as a rejection of Muslim beliefs in heaven and hell.

The remarks caused a storm on social media, with footage of the interview going viral, and Kabir faced a torrent of criticism in the conservative Muslim country.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. One time a guy with an atheist bumper sticker cut me off in traffic.

I almost spilled coffee all over my lap. #CounterPoints

[trotsky]

2. Yeah and whatabout China, huh?

They've done bad things to people who are theists!

(And atheists, but of course we aren't supposed to talk about that because that destroys the myth that atheists are persecuting theists for the crime of being theists.)

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. I got food poisoning in Taiwan.

Gotta be fair and balanced to China.

[Mariana]

3. Did that happen in Boston, by any chance?

We've been told atheists in Boston are particularly intolerant.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. Yes, but...

...one time an atheist stepped on my foot in New York City. Gotta keep it fair and balanced for the folks in Boston.

[kiri]

7. Boston priest pale on meeting atheist

I was at an Interfaith dinner, and a UU minister(!) introduced me as an atheist. A priest next to me I had been chatting amicably with --became visibly pale, and within a few minutes got up and walked to the end of the table.

[MineralMan]

5. Hmm...some days an atheist can't say anything, you know...

without getting death threats. Thank goodness nothing like that ever happens here in the United States, where tolerance flows like water.

[Iggo]

8. Religion.

It's the motherfucking best, ain't it?

Let's hear it!!!