Selling Atheism in the Shadow of Religious Fundamentalism

Tulisan ini bersumber dari harian The Jakarta Post. Ditulis oleh wartawan Ary Hermawan, dan dimuat pada Selasa, 29 Mei 2008. Di dalamnya saya mengutarakan pendapat saya tentang pentingnya penerbitan buku-buku atheisme di Indonesia.
[Zulkifli Al-Humami]
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Does atheism sell in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country and home to such bigoted religionists as the Bali bombers?

Will it ever have a place in a "God-fearing" society whose forefathers had unanimously decided to place the Abrahamic doctrine of the Unity of God as its first national credo?

The default answer would be unsurprisingly "no". Atheism books like Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, Sam Harris' The End of Faith or Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great may have been on the bestselling charts somewhere else and can now be spotted in nearly all international airports, but the top local publishers have no interest in bringing these books to local bookstores.