Author: Maryam Namazie

Thanks but no thanks, Mr. Lawson! Many of us have fled the Islamic ‘lifestyle’ you advocate for all to adopt in Britain (Re: We should all adopt an Islamic lifestyle, 20 June, The Independent). Calling it a lifestyle may be useful for writing an article to ingratiate oneself with the Muslim Council of Britain, but…

Press Conference Palais des Nations, Geneva Thursday 22 June 2006, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm An urgent press conference has been called on Thursday 22 June 2006 during 12:00-1:00pm outside the UN building in Geneva in protest at the participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s representatives, and specifically chief prosecutor of Tehran Saeed Mortazavi,…

A journalist recently called to ask what I thought about the Muslim barbie doll, which is properly veiled and covered up in the Islamic tradition. Doesn’t it offer the veiled child something she can relate to? Please I said: When a slave child has a slave doll to relate to; When a child labourer has…

I can’t stop thinking about the children executed by US forces in Haditha in November last year. What were they doing right before they were killed in cold blood? Where they playing or sitting on their doorsteps watching the world go by? What must they have thought of the world they lived in? How scared…

The present conflict between the Western governments and the Islamic Republic of Iran can have disastrous human, political and social consequences. The terrible experience of Iraq has shown to all the catastrophes that can result from economic sanctions and a military attack. Deterioration of living conditions, economic plight, death, destruction and displacement of people, and…

The fact that Ayaan Hirsci Ali lied on her asylum application is irrelevant – even if she had not said so herself several years ago. Prior to the New World Order and its criminalisation of asylum seekers and refugees, it was a given that many would be forced to change their identities; moreover, where a…

To sign on to the below petition to support Ayaan Hirsi Ali, click here. The misinformation on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s application for asylum is not a new tactic for desperate refugees, nor is it new about Ayaan, however the Dutch government has just recently decided to use this public information about Ayaan as a pretext…

You can see me on the More4 TV programme, The Last Word, with Mathew Parris, journalist and author, and Johann Hari, columnist for the Independent, discussing whether Iran should be bombed (of course not!) and the monarchy with host David Starkey on https://maryam.wlfserver.xyz/audvid/last%20talk%20internet%20file.wmv. It was broadcast on April 19. Also see my discussion with Stephen…

Iran May Day Update 2, Monday 1 May 2006 The May Day rallies in Tehran and Sanandaj have come under attack by the Iranian security forces. At least 17 demonstrators, among them members of the executive board of Tehran bus workers’ union, have been arrested. In the rally in Tehran, called by the bus workers’…