The Atheist Closet

Dave Silverman on why Atheists America have designed ads for Muslims and Jews and are displaying them in their areas:

Some […] atheists, in our consistent experience, do not realize that there are many others of the same mind in their communities and neighborhoods […] Close-knit communities with strong religious traditions are especially vulnerable to harboring this sort of isolation for non-believers. An intellectually suffocating culture in many religious communities is designed to keep dissidents from knowing about rival ideas and about others like them within the community. Our actions are designed, in part, to counter that illusion

Speaking of closets, the grandson of actor Omar al Sharif wrote an article in which he came out as gay and half jewish. He said he worries that the Islamist government in Cairo will prosecute him.. You think?