Author: Maryam Namazie

Ban on niqab veils in UK schools not enough By Maryam Namazie Even after a national ruling allowing schools to ban full-face Islamic veils from schools, Britain’s government and courts still don’t do enough to protect children from their parents’ beliefs. Maryam Namazie comments. British Education Secretary Alan Johnson’s announcement this week that head teachers are…

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Maryam Namazie Bahar a young woman living in Germany wrote: When you see me on the street I am veiled but do not think I am a Muslim. I have been forced to veil by my father and brothers; they will kill me if I don’t. Before I felt alone, but now I know I…

Mina Ahadi I would like to talk about a campaign that been influential in Germany over the past several weeks. I have lived in Germany for 11 years; I was first interviewed on stoning by national German TV seven years ago. When at home, I watched the interview and saw that they had introduced me…

Happy (Iranian) New Year to all.

The representatives of the Islamic regime of Iran are holding a party to celebrate Iranian New Year here at Kensington Great hall in London while their colleagues back in Iran are turning people’s lives into hell. They stop people from having fun, they attack private parties to arrest men and women who dance together or…

What are the prospects for regime change from within – by and for the Iranian people? Over the last year, Iran has seen rising levels of resistance to President Ahmadinejad’s repressive regime. Strikes by bus workers and teachers, women’s rights protests, student occupations and protests by Iran’s suppressed national minorities, especially the Kurds, Baluchis and…

Zahra Kamalfar and her two children will arrive in Vancouver, Canada today after being trapped at the transit hall of Moscow international airport for the past 9 months under threat of deportation to Iran. The International Federation of Iranian Refugees that campaigned to save Zahra Kamalfar and her family from deportation congratulates all those who…

From the National Secular Society’s March 9 Newsline The NSS co-sponsored seminar on Islam, Women’s Rights and the Veil which was held at the University of London Union on Thursday was packed to the doors by people wanting to hear from a group of exceptionally courageous women who are standing up for their rights against…

Join us on Thursday 8 March 2007 For a seminar on Women’s Rights, the Veil and Islamic and religious laws Speakers (see bios below): * Mina Ahadi, founder of Central Council of Ex-Muslims * Sonja Eggerickx: President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. * Ann Harrison: Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Department of…