Defying Taboo, Middle East Atheists Launch TV Channel
http://www.voanews.com/content/defying-taboo-middle-east-atheists-launch-television-channel/2744149.html
Heather Murdock
April 30, 2015 8:47 PM
Activists in Egypt say they hope their online TV programs reduce taboos surrounding atheism in the Middle East, April 29, 2015. ( VOA / H. Murdock)
EGYPT
In Egypt, a deeply religious country in a deeply religious region, atheism is not only taboo, it is dangerous. It is sometimes even criminal to publicly declare nonbelief.
Despite the danger, one group of activists is pushing back with a new online TV channel. Free Mind TV defends the right not to believe.
Edited and produced in a studio in the United States, Free Mind TV says it wants to promote nonreligious liberal ideas in the Middle East.
On the screen, the presenter appears to be in a sophisticated studio. But in reality, presenter Ahmed Harqan, a former Muslim, sits at a card table in a small bedroom in Egypt, with a green cloth hanging behind him.
more at link, including video