{"id":1650,"date":"2015-01-22T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:30:48","slug":"no-go-zones-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/01\/22\/no-go-zones-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No-Go Zones\u2019 In America!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"danger-no-go-zone-sign\"<\/a>Fox News has recently reported that in France and England, there are many areas so controlled by Muslims that non-Muslims aren\u2019t allowed in. They call these areas, \u201cNo-Go Zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it turns out — surprise, surprise — Fox News lied. There are no areas in France or England where non-Muslims are restricted. Here is what I find interesting. Fox News propagated this made-up story because they wanted to scare people into believing that Muslims are taking over and that they are restricting the freedom of non-Muslims.\u00a0 But the sad fact is that there really are \u201cNo-Go Zones\u201d all over the world; even in America.<\/p>\n

However, it isn’t just Muslims, but theists in general that are restricting the freedom of non-theists. There are plenty of places in America and the rest of the world where being an open atheist invites violence from \u201cpeace-loving\u201d religious believers. There are areas all over the world where proclaiming one’s lack of belief in deities will make someone dramatically less safe.<\/p>\n

I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia and I am also not a particularly big guy. In fact, I am a very small individual and that is one of the reasons why I rarely wear an openly atheist t-shirt out in public. I fear that there will be some Christian who will get up in my face and threaten or attack me. That is why I tend to only wear my atheist t-shirts in places where there are other atheists — Safety in numbers. Sometimes I will wear some of my less obvious atheist shirts, but even then, there are places I won\u2019t go. There are “No-Go Zones.”<\/p>\n

Are there places in America so controlled by religion that they are \u201cNo-Go Zones\u201d for atheists? I\u2019m going to say YES!!! Most of America is a \u201cNo-Go Zone\u201d for atheists. Do you have a story of being physically attacked or threatened by religious believers for being an atheist? Have you experienced an atheist “No-Go Zone?” Leave a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sad fact is that there really are \u201cNo-Go Zones\u201d all over the world; even in America. But it is theists that are restricting freedom of non-theists. There are plenty of places in America and the rest of the world where being an open atheist invites violence from \u201cpeace-loving\u201d religious believers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,758,17,363],"tags":[38,961,962,103,959,1055,960],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-2","category-featured","category-religion","category-violence","tag-atheism","tag-descrimination","tag-hate","tag-muslim","tag-no-go-zone","tag-religion","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}