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…
Sound familiar?
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…
Human beings first!
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…
Just a normal Islamic sheikh
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…
Islam must be criticised!
It’s interesting how free speech, the right to criticise and ridicule god, prophet or religion, the separation of religion from the state and secularism as…
Defend Free Speech and Secularism
’ve set up a petition on petitiononline in defence of free speech and secularism. The text reads as follows: We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the…
Offensive, Shmoffensive
An email I received says my blog and the reprinting of the caricatures of Mohammad are insulting and offensive. Of course they can be offensive…
Apologise for what? On Caricatures of Mohammad
The repeated calls for an unreserved apology for publishing ‘offensive’ and ‘insulting’ caricatures of Mohammad reminds me of the apologies that should be made to…
On a left and progressive critique of Islam and political Islam,
International TV interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush Maryam Namazie: Theo van Gogh had made a film with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch MP…
ON RACIST PARTIES AND RACISM
International TV interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush July 19, 2004 Maryam Namazie: We’ve heard a lot in the news about the British National…