Author: Maryam Namazie

Here’s another post that needs mentioning. It’s by Abu Hurairah – ‘The Father of a Kitten’ no less who reminds his brethren that no fatwa is needed to kill those of us who signed on to the manifesto. He says: ‘Jezak’illah Ukthi, now we have drawn out a hit list of a ‘Who’s Who’ guide…

I thought I’d share some of the more interesting emails I have received regarding the caricatures (!?!): This one is from Bilal Mahmoud, a student in Denmark: “Salam Listen, you really must be crazy in re publishing those damned cartoons ! are you really that ignorant ? okay, maybe Iran has seen some cruel stuff,…

Thousands of women and men came out on to the streets or held meetings to commemorate International Women’s Day across Iran. Their slogans included: Down with Reaction, Down with Sexual Apartheid, Long Live Women’s Day, Long Live Women’s Freedom, Long Live March 8, We demand our human rights. Below are some pictures from the demonstration…

On International Women’s Day, we commemorate 23 year old Hatun, murdered in cold blood in Germany by her brothers for ‘dishonouring’ her family, for divorcing a man she was forced to marry at 16, for unveiling, and for dating German men. Some boys discussing her death put it clearly: ‘She deserved to die; the whore…

Azita Ebrahimi sent me her brilliant drawings saying no to compulsory veiling and sexual apartheid – they are a fitting commemoration of International Women’s Day:          

If you can get yourself to Cologne, Germany, come to the March 8 conference in commemoration of International Women’s Day and against honour killings. For more details, see https://maryam.wlfserver.xyz/calendar/Einladung-English.pdf.

To see my interview with the Danish TV programme, Deadline, go to http://www.dr.dk/dr2/deadline2230/lordag.htm and scroll down the screen to the sixth paragraph and click on the following: Interview med Maryam Namazie, medunderskriver af Salman Rushdies manifest 22:33:20 (7:42) Midt i krisen over Jyllands-Postens tegniner af profeten Mohammed udsendte Salman Rushdie i ugen der gik sammen…

Today, the following manifesto will be published in Charlie Hebdo, a French leftwing newspaper that had published the Mohammad caricatures. It has been signed by myself and 11 others, namely Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Chahla Chafiq, Caroline Fourest, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Irshad Manji, Mehdi Mozaffari, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Sfeir, Philippe Val and Ibn Warraq. It…

In an interview with Algerian El Khabar newspaper in Arabic, George Galloway, the Respect MP, says the Mohammad caricatures are worse than the murder of innocent civilians on 11 September in New York and July 7 in London! Silly me; I always thought slaughtering civilians was somehow worse than offending them… I guess it takes…

Elham Afroutan who was arrested on 29 January 2006 with six colleagues for the republication of an anonymous satirical piece in a local Iranian publication called Tammadon-e Hormozgan is reportedly in a coma or has died in the custody of the Islamic regime of Iran. She and the others were arrested for a piece entitled…

In this day and age it is supposedly no longer the individual but religion that is guaranteed rights, equality, tolerance, respect…And most often at the expense of individuals. The concept of rights, equality, respect and tolerance were concepts raised vis-à-vis the individual not beliefs. But today, it seems mainly applicable to the latter. We are…

Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been jailed for seven years in the UK after being found guilty of inciting murder and race hate. In a television interview, his son said something to the effect of: Abu Hamza is just a normal Islamic sheikh. My sentiments exactly!