22 year old Ehsan Jami, the chairman of the Dutch Committee for ex-Muslims, has been ambushed and beaten a third time by Islamists this Monday.…
August 9th: International day of action for the release of Mansoor Osanlou and Mahmoud Salehi
The International Trade Union Confederation and the International Transport Workers Federation are organising an international day of action for the release of Mahmoud Salehi and…
TV International English begins again
I have begun hosting International TV English again. It is a weekly half hour programme with a focus on Islam, political Islam, US militarism, secularism…
Clips from Council of Ex-Muslims launch
To see Mina Ahadi’s speech at the launch of the Council of Ex-Muslims last month, click here. To see Maryam Namazie’s reponses to questions raised,…
Could have been any one of us
Two Kurdish journalists, Adnan Hassanpour and Hiva Boutimar, have been sentenced to execution for the ‘crime of being Moharebeh’ which means ‘fighting’ religion and the…
Yes very friendly indeed
Someone recently emailed me an interview with Moroccan Islamist Nadia Yassine, published in Speigel online on July 3, entitled ‘our religion is friendly to women’.…
Not very futile
The July 30 issue of The Nation magazine has published in-depth interviews with 50 US veterans of the Iraq war describing the US military’s heinous,…
Islam and BBC 2’s Newsnight
I was on BBC 2 TV’s Newsnight programme discussing Islam with Benazir Bhutto, Reza Aslan and Sheikh Omar Bakri. You can see it on their…
New Channel TV and TV International to begin again
Good news! New Channel TV, on which TV International has a programme in English, will begin work again from 25 July after being off air…
Your support is needed today
Dear Friends, The Islamic regime in Iran has launched a campaign of arrests, kidnapping, executions and stoning to death in an attempt to drive back…