Author: Maryam Namazie

Here’s an interview with the Persian Javanan Weekly on the Manifesto for your information. Javanan: You are one of the signatories to the Manifesto against Islamism; were you involved in drafting it? Maryam Namazie: I wasn’t involved in drafting the manifesto. I had initially refused to sign the manifesto because it mentioned the ‘excesses of…

Here’s the transcript of my interview with Danish TV. Thanks to Arash Sorx for transcribing it. Martin Breum: Welcome Maryam Namazie. We are in the middle of this cartoon crisis and then your manifesto calls for hard resistance against Islamism, why is that? Maryam Namazie: The reality is that Islamism is one of the great…

Here’s another post that needs mentioning. It’s by Abu Hurairah – ‘The Father of a Kitten’ no less who reminds his brethren that no fatwa is needed to kill those of us who signed on to the manifesto. He says: ‘Jezak’illah Ukthi, now we have drawn out a hit list of a ‘Who’s Who’ guide…

I thought I’d share some of the more interesting emails I have received regarding the caricatures (!?!): This one is from Bilal Mahmoud, a student in Denmark: “Salam Listen, you really must be crazy in re publishing those damned cartoons ! are you really that ignorant ? okay, maybe Iran has seen some cruel stuff,…

Thousands of women and men came out on to the streets or held meetings to commemorate International Women’s Day across Iran. Their slogans included: Down with Reaction, Down with Sexual Apartheid, Long Live Women’s Day, Long Live Women’s Freedom, Long Live March 8, We demand our human rights. Below are some pictures from the demonstration…

On International Women’s Day, we commemorate 23 year old Hatun, murdered in cold blood in Germany by her brothers for ‘dishonouring’ her family, for divorcing a man she was forced to marry at 16, for unveiling, and for dating German men. Some boys discussing her death put it clearly: ‘She deserved to die; the whore…

Azita Ebrahimi sent me her brilliant drawings saying no to compulsory veiling and sexual apartheid – they are a fitting commemoration of International Women’s Day:

If you can get yourself to Cologne, Germany, come to the March 8 conference in commemoration of International Women’s Day and against honour killings. For more details, see https://maryam.wlfserver.xyz/calendar/Einladung-English.pdf.

To see my interview with the Danish TV programme, Deadline, go to http://www.dr.dk/dr2/deadline2230/lordag.htm and scroll down the screen to the sixth paragraph and click on the following: Interview med Maryam Namazie, medunderskriver af Salman Rushdies manifest 22:33:20 (7:42) Midt i krisen over Jyllands-Postens tegniner af profeten Mohammed udsendte Salman Rushdie i ugen der gik sammen…

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all. The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers,…