Author: Maryam Namazie
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Faith and State: Getting the Balance Right
Getting the balance right between faith and state implies that religion may actually have a positive role to play in society and that discussions need merely focus on the extent and nature of its role. That somehow there is a point at which we can find stability and equilibrium and even a more integrated society.…
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Secularism and Humanism are not Religions or Belief Systems
I spoke on the topic of ‘Secularism and Humanism are not Religions or Belief Systems’ at the Leicester Secular Society today, including the dangers of regarding secularism and humanism as forms of religion, belief or dogma, and how it can prevent people from challenging religion. I will publish my speech there soon.
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Maryam Namazie speaks at an international gathering of secularists in Paris
On Saturday 10 February, I spoke at an international gathering of secularists in Paris, France, which was attended by hundreds of secularists on a panel regarding equality and political Islam. Here’s my speech: Political Islam and Islam are antithetical to women’s rights, equality between men and women, and other rights and freedoms. You do not…
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Nazanin Fatehi has been Released!
Today, 31 January evening, 19 year old Nazanin was released from prison after facing execution for the past year and a half. She stepped out of prison with a smile on her face to greet her family and supporters who had gathered outside Evin prison. Whilst there, she spoke to Mina Ahadi, the coordinator for…
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Let her go now!
The regime has still not released Nazanin. Her lawyer was told that there were oustanding issues from the transfer from her previous prison in Karaj to Evin prison in Tehran. Due to holidays in Iran on Monday and Tuesday, the lawyer expects her get her out on Wednesday. We’ll keep you posted…
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Nazanin Fatehi is to be released today
As I write people are going towards Evin Prison with flowers to meet and greet Nazanin Fatehi who is to be released from prison after a huge sum of bail money was collected through donations from people in Iran and across the world. Humanity is alive and well and will be on show today outside…
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A response to comments on the veil and more
In this week’s TV International English, we respond to some of your comments on this blog and others on the veil with Fariborz Pooya, Sohaila Sharifi and Bahram Soroush. Tell me what you think. I also interview Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on religious opposition to the sexual orientation regulations, and the role of faith…
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Appeal fund for the release of Nazanin Fatehi and the latest news on her situation
Nazanin, the Iranian teenager under a sentence of death, was acquitted, but the Islamic authorities are demanding that her family pay blood money (so called ‘diye’). This callous and reactionary demand must be condemned. If anybody is to pay damages, it should be the Islamic Republic of Iran, for the psychological and physical torment that…
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TV International on Nazanin Fatehi’s acquittal, Sanctions against Iran and Saddam’s execution
See this week’s International TV English in which Maryam Namazie interviews Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Mina Ahadi and Sohaila Sharifi on the Save Nazanin Fatehi Campaign and the acquittal of the teenager who had been sentenced to death in Iran, shows a clip of a documentary on Nazanin Fatehi, interviews Hamid Taqvaee on US sanctions against Iran…
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Nazanin Fatehi Acquitted!
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Sunday 14 January 2007 According to information received by the International Committee Against Execution, the charges against Nazanin Fatehi, the teenager under a sentence of death in Iran, have been dropped. She will probably be released from jail next week. Earlier today, the court sitting in Tehran decided on Nazanin’s…