YouTuber Hicham Nostic hosts Professor Ahmed Assid for a bold intellectual discussion exploring the growing trend of secularization and atheism in Arab and North African societies. Assid explains that these shifts are not surprising but rather an inevitable consequence of the use of religion for political purposes, repression, and authoritarianism by rulers and extremist religious movements. This has led to widespread rebellion and a desire to escape religious coercion, especially with the availability of the internet as a free space that has helped break down individual isolation and disseminate knowledge and previously banned books.

The discussion also touches on the role of the internet in facilitating communication between atheists and various religious groups, allowing them to share their experiences in the public sphere. Assid emphasizes the necessity of engaging in public discourse with courage and building dialogue based on respect for personal beliefs, while confronting imported forms of forced religiosity. He believes that rationalizing dialogue and adhering to the universal principles of human rights is the only way to build a democratic society characterized by freedom and equality.

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