Category: News
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Cartoons are an Excuse!
Cartoons are an excuse. Everything “provokes” Islamists – Being a woman, freethinker, gay, unveiled, ex-Muslim, atheist, religiously unprescribed sex, laughing out loud, music… If you think that killings will stop if you stop drawing cartoons, you cannot see the innumerable in prisons & on death row in Iran, Asia, Mid East, North Africa for “provoking”…
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Islam Kills
#Islam kills. Like cigarettes, #religions should come with a health warning. @MaryamNamazie اسلام می کشد# همانند سیگار، #مذاهب باید با هشدار سلامتی بیایند مریم نمازی
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The Woman’s Quran
On 30 September, #BlasphemyDay, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) publishes The Woman’s Quran (114 Pages for 114 Surahs). It is blank because all religions degrade women and because the Quran, Islam and Islamism are the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. (*A reference to US Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “The Bible…
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In Support of Charlie Hebdo: We’re Not Offended
Today’s issue of Charlie Hebdo with (mostly) #exMuslims, thanks to Inna Shevchenko. Caricatures de Mahomet : Paroles de musulmans non offensés, Charlie Hebdo, 16 September 2020 Translation of my contribution: “A progressive, satirical anti-clerical tradition such as that of Charlie Hebdo’s is not the sole domain of the West. When Charlie Hebdo draws Mohammed, it…
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#BanIRSports4Navid
JOIN CALL TO BAN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN FROM INTERNATIONAL ARENA AND SPORTS FOR NAVID! INITIAL SIGNATORIES AND FARSI, ARABIC, FRENCH, GERMAN, TAMIL, TURKISH, SWEDISH TRANSLATIONS BELOW Navid Afkari, a young Iranian wrestler was executed by the Islamic regime in Iran on 12 September 2020 despite widespread local and international pressure. He was executed on…
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22 August 2020 – First International Apostasy Day
Arabic, Bangla, Dhivehi, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Malay, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu translations below. On 22nd August, thousands participated in Apostasy Day, including by taking selfies with the hashtag #HandsUpforApostasyDay #ApostasyDay #ApostasyNotACrime. Overall, 83,000 people engaged in the day reaching 233,000 people. …
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Black Lives Matter. Full Stop.
On Why Ex-Muslims should support BLM and the Fight against Systematic Racism Edited and Expanded Conversation between Ali Rizvi and Maryam Namazie on Professional Novice Podcast Ali Rizvi: Welcome to Professional Novice with Ali Rizvi. I like bringing people on who I really respect in terms of their ideas and their thoughts. And today’s obviously…
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Conflating face masks with burqas is an an act of cultural assassination
Conflating face masks with burqas is an an act of cultural assassination, sister-hood, 1 July 2020 By Marieme Helie Lucas and Maryam Namazie Read it in French here. Some people, including Human Rights Watch’s Director Ken Roth and politicians like Rabina Khan have taken the opportunity of a global pandemic to defend the burqa/niqab by comparing it with…
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On #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter
Tweets on #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter Maryam Namazie @MaryamNamazie Jun 2nd 2020, 10 tweets, 4 min read In 1991, I was beaten by NYPD at anti-Iraq War protest. Undercover agents threw something into parade, 18 of us were dragged over barricades fencing protesters in. One cop kicked me in face while I was on the ground;…
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Maryam Namazie speaks at Muslimish on Roadmap to Abolishing Blasphemy Laws
See segment of Muslimish event on Roadmap to abolishing blasphemy laws with Maryam Namazie chaired by Muslimish’s Wissam Charafeddine on 31 May Other speakers include: Ibrahim Abdallah, National Organizer, Muslimish Nicolas Little, Legal Director, Center For Inquiry Ken Grunow, Amnesty International USA, Legislative Coordinator for Michigan Geraldine Grunow, Amnesty International USA, Local Group Coordinator Watch…