Maryam Namazie speaking on Blasphemous Women on 13 June 2022 at Brave Women for 2022 talk organised by Center for Civil Courage from Croatia and Women’s Solidarity from Serbia.
Brave Women for 2022 presents courageous women from all over the world whose thoughts and deeds encourage us every day in our struggle for women’s liberation.
In this talk, Maryam discusses the status of women in Islam, how being a free woman is an act of blasphemy and why blasphemy and apostasy are key to liberation. She also responds to questions regarding offence, #LadyofHeaven, the Left and Right debate, Islamophobia, conflation of criticism with harm, on the oxymoronic Islamic feminism, on who is provoking whom, the problem with the veil….