Category: News
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CD2022 Report: You can cut the flowers but you cannot stop the Spring
“We attended one of the largest gatherings of atheists and freethinkers in the world, Celebrating Dissent. An event with a very special tone – the aggression against Salman Rushdie on everyone’s minds. More than ever, these atheists wanted to show that they are more and more numerous and determined to win the battle against obscurantism.” – Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022…
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Maryam Namazie Interviews Richard Dawkins at Celebrating Dissent 2022
Maryam Namazie interviews Scientist Richard Dawkins at Celebrating Dissent 2022 in Cologne, Germany.
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Iranian Atheist Soheil Arabi wins Freethought Champions Award at Celebrating Dissent 2022
Iranian atheist Soheil Arabi who was on death row for blasphemy and is currently in internal exile after 8 years in prison in Iran was awarded the Freethought Champions Award at Celebrating Dissent 2022 organised by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Freethought Lebanon. In his acceptance video, he said: “I have no regrets that…
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Cologne: Nonebelievers celebrate Salman Rushdie and prepare for the future
Cologne : les mécréants célèbrent Salman Rushdie et préparent l’avenir, Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022 LAURE DAUSSY · 25 AOÛT 2022PARU DANS L’ÉDITION 1570 DU 24 AOÛT Nous avons pu assister à l’un des plus grands rassemblements d’athées et de libres-penseurs du monde entier, Celebrating Dissent, organisé à Cologne par Maryam Namazie, cofondatrice du Council of Ex-Muslims of…
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Brave Women for 2022: Maryam Namazie on Blasphemous Women
Maryam Namazie speaking on Blasphemous Women on 13 June 2022 at Brave Women for 2022 talk organised by Center for Civil Courage from Croatia and Women’s Solidarity from Serbia. Brave Women for 2022 presents courageous women from all over the world whose thoughts and deeds encourage us every day in our struggle for women’s liberation.…
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Celebrating Dissent 2022
#CelebratingDissent2022 will be held in Cologne, Germany during 21-22 August 2022 with over 50 speakers from 30 countries in the largest gathering of #exMuslims, #atheists and #freethinkers since lockdown. It follows from the highly successful Celebrating Dissent Festival in Amsterdam in 2019 and the Freedom of Conscience and Expression conference in London in 2017. The two-day event is organised…
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#HappyFastDefying
It’s opposite of #HappyRamadan #RamadanKareem #RamadanMubarak. #Ramadan’s a bleak month where people are tortured, beaten, shunned, imprisoned for not submitting to fasting rules like in #Iran. #HappyFastDefying #FastDefyingKareem #DontGiveADamn4Ramadan #رمضان یک ماه تیره و تار است که در آن مردم به خاطر عدم تسلیم به قوانین روزه شکنجه می شوند، مورد ضرب و شتم قرار…
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#AtheistDay2022
On #AtheistDay2022, 23 March, join us in celebrating atheism and Godlessness. Draw a circle on your hand to make your presence known. Atheist Day was established in 2019 by Atheist Republic and Ex-Muslims International, a coalition of ex-Muslim groups. You can find out more here. Graphics by Victoria Gugenheim.
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Soheil Arabi and Maryam Namazie will be live on a special #AtheistDay
Soheil Arabi and Maryam Namazie will be live on a special #AtheistDay programme of Ex-Muslims of Scandinavia with hosts Atieh Niknafas and Milad Resaeimanesh at 9:00am UK time, 10:00am CET, 12:30pm Tehran time. In Persian. لینک Facebook لینک YouTube در ویژه برنامه نهاد اکس مسلم اسکاندیناوی به مناسبت روز جهانی آتئیست شرکت کنید. با حضور:…
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Nazanin Is Free, FiLiA, 17 March 2022
Nazanin Is Free, FiLiA, 17 March 2022 With the news that Nazanin is home, we at FiLiA wish to start by offering our love and solidarity to Nazanin, Richard, Gabriella and their family. We also welcome Anoosheh Ashoori and send love to his daughter Elika Ashoori and family. Since reports first started circling that Nazanin…
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On 8 March, IWD, our hijabs in the “freedom bin”
In the 1960s, feminists threw items of women’s oppression into a “freedom bin” as protest. On 8 March, International Women’s Day, we throw our hijabs in the “freedom bin” and burn them. The hijab, a tool to suppress women and girls, belongs in the dustbins of history… در دهه ۶۰ میلادی، فمینیست ها اقلامی را…
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#Iran regime referred to International Criminal Court for its war crimes in #Syria
FARSI BELOW #Iran regime referred to International Criminal Court for its war crimes in #Syria, published in Persian in Journal Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and UK barrister Haydee Dijkstal have filed a request to the International Criminal Court to open an examination into the Islamic regime of Iran’s role in war crimes…