I would flee as fast as I could. No questions asked.

I've wondered what I would do in this situation many times. Would I be true to my beliefs and endanger my life? What about my family? If that culture is all I knew how would that change my decision? For me this is all just a thought experiment but to those living it... With the current xenophobic, racist and anti-immigrant climate in many parts of the world I don't know if it's possible but maybe some kind of underground railroad?

it's a scary thought.. how do we know what we would do?

What all persecuted people (who don't choose to leave) do. Practice self-preservation, do what little you can to encourage tolerance, hope for a brighter future/change of regime.

Immigration ???? and that is my dream

The problem is that in a large part of the Arab world, there is no distinction between religious and political power; as long as those remain intertwined, there can never be freedom of thought and religion.

Now, as for how to change things, this is a completely different issue. If the people who think differently like atheists all move away from there, then there will not be any change. On the other hand, not leaving and speaking openly may and will lead a lot of people to jail, abuse, torture and/or even death. This is quite a tricky situation, just imagine: if Nelson Mandela wasn't jailed and didn't stay in jail for over 20 years for being outspoken against racial discrimination, if he fled to another country, do you think that the Apartheid government of South Africa would have ended up falling? At the same time, we don't wish what happened to Nelson Mandela on anyone. In other words, you could say that martyrs change the world, but who want to be that martyr?

So as not to risk torture or death, I'd just play along with the status quo, and make plans to leave. An exception to this would be to stay and effect change IF I was in an influential and public position to do so. Example: taking a child bride in India is now considered rape. (Someone pls correct me if I'm citing this incorrectly.) Certainly, that took the influence of liberal-minded, forward-thinking people to help change such a barbaric practice.

Keep my head down leave if I could if not the joy of absence of faith is you don't have to worry about being punished by the dude in the sky for being hypocritical.

definitely I'd panic and then I'd leave and then I'd help to topple said govt.

I wouldnt reveal my beliefs and would try to exit the country ASAP

Realize I lived in a primitive, regressive society and leave as soon as I could.

Try like he'll to leave.

I would leave. Nobody should live in fear of persecution or death for having free thought.

I'm sure there are many who perform the rituals and keep their thoughts to themselves and avoid ritual when they can.

Run like hell... however it is that a hell would run...

I would not criticise you or condemn you if you left the country. If you stayed and took on passive resistance techniques, I would support you. It is your choice in a difficult situation. I hope that you are enjoying life in your new surroundings.

Move out of that place! There's no way I'd continue to support that country if that was going to be how they chose to be!

Personally I would leave, and find a better place to live. I would not continue to support the country with my production or money. Fuck em.

When you say that "some Western agnostics and atheists agree with silencers," what exactly do you mean? I've no doubt that you have good examples of that - there are often distressing cases in history of privileged members of a marginalized group failing to assist far more persecuted members of their cohort. But without the specifics of that behavior in our own community, it is hard to know how to call it out or otherwise respond to it.

I'd leave as soon as I was able. I respect those who would stay and risk their lives for the sake of social and political change, but I'm not eager to be tortured to death.