Category: News
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We are being slaughtered by your secondary enemy!
OPEN LETTER TO THE LEFT AND FAR LEFT While you focus on US imperialism (no other) and on capitalism that exploits the masses in Muslim-majority countries and in the diaspora, children are being murdered in schools in Pakistan, just as they were assassinated in Algeria in the nineties, and just as journalists, intellectuals, artists, activists…
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On Meeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners with Law Society
On Tuesday 13th January, women’s rights groups, including Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All, Nari Diganta and the Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), met with Mark Stobbs, the Law Society’s Director of Legal Policy at the SBS office. Our organisations welcomed the Law Society’s decision to withdraw its guidance on ‘Sharia’ compliant…
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We condemn the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo by Islamic terrorists
The murderous attack today by Islamic terrorists on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo has aroused people’s anger and disgust around the world. Charlie Hebdo is a left, progressive satirical weekly which criticises and ridicules religion and religious beliefs, prejudices and taboos. In 2011 the magazine’s office was firebombed by Islamists for publishing a caricature…
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Press release – Women’s rights campaigners welcome withdrawal of the Law Society’s sharia wills practice note
24 November 2014 One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, the Centre for Secular Space, Nari Diganta and the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation have welcomed the Law Society’s withdrawal of their sharia wills practice note. The practice note advised solicitors on how to draw up ‘Sharia-compliant’ wills, stating that “… illegitimate and adopted…
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Onwards to establishing an International Front for Secularism
“Secular conference created a sense of imminent and momentous change – and women will be the driving force” – Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society The two-day International Conference on the Religious Right, Secularism and Civil Rights held in London during 11-12 October 2014 was a rousing success, promoting a much-needed global secular…
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More video clips of Secular Conference 2014
A lot more video clips have been uploaded of the 11-12 October International Conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights. You can see the latest here below: Iranian-born Campaigner Maryam Namazie’s Opening Address: Secularism is our response to the Religious-Right Algerian Sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas: “Attacks on Secularism” Tribute by Karima Bennoune to those…
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United against ISIS and for Kobane
Here’s my speech at the 1 November Global day of Action for Kobane: I was disgusted to see Social Workers’ Party and Stop the War Coalition speaking at the protest when they have been the stalwart defenders of the “ISIS” of Iran and other countries. If you don’t know about their collaboration with the Islamists,…
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Secular Conference 2014 rallies in support of Kobane and against religious-Right
Press Release 15 October 2014 The two-day International Conference on the Religious Right, Secularism and Civil Rights held in London during 11-12 October 2014 was a rousing success. A broad coalition of secularists, including believers, free-thinkers, agnostics and atheists assembled from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and the Diaspora at the unprecedented and…
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Just some more Islamist threats – but it won’t stop us
It seems be an Islamist, you must not only have a thing for murder but you have to be downright stupid as well. Here’s an email circulated amongst the “brothers” on 10 October Friday before the 11-12 October conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights in London trying to mobilise their herds to stop our event…
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Promoting global secular alternative in the ISIS era
MARIEME HÉLIE-LUCAS and MARYAM NAMAZIE 4 October 2014 While many of us watch in horror as ISIS advances, and fundamentalist ideas spread across religious traditions around the world, Maryam Namazie and Marieme Hélie-Lucas – secular feminists from Iran and Algeria – told Karima Bennoune why they are convening the International Secular Conference in London next…