Category: Notes
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Aisan Eslami: Not Your Fucking Honour
A video is circulating of Aisan Eslami, an ‘Influencer’ who lives in the USA with millions of followers, promoting the ‘honour’-killing of an Iranian women Simin Pourmehr on social media for her saying that one could go on holiday with the money it costs to go out for one night in Dubai. It’s a masterclass…
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Azar Majedi and Homa Arjomand’s Islamist Propaganda and Morality
By Maryam Namazie Azar Majedi and Homa Arjomand’s recent criticisms of feminists, secularists and ex-Muslims under the guise of defending the Palestinian people are worrying given their use of Islamist and pro-Islamist Left propaganda. Their statement ‘Genocide in Gaza: Where does the Women’s Rights Movement stand?’ rightly condemns genocide but has not one word condemning…
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Iran: Revolution not Reform
Iran: Unica Soluzione, rivoluzione, Psiche, Issue 2/2023 ABSTRACT: The article critically examines Bahareh Hedayat’s open letter from Evin prison written in December 2022. The letter reveals a paradigm shift with respect to the so-called reformist movement – from working within the confines of a theocratic state to calling for its complete overthrow by revolutionary means.…
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There are no rights in Islam, Maryam Namazie’s remarks in Durham and Berlin
See Maryam’s opening remarks at Durham University Union: Islam is not compatible with human rights Watch Maryam’s opening remarks at WBZ Berlin Social Science Centre: There is no women’s rights in Islam
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Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023
Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023 When Mahsa Amini was dragged off last year to undergo “re-education” for “improper” veiling, it was business as usual for Iran’s Islamic morality police, which harasses, imprisons, and brutalises thousands of women every year. But Amini wasn’t merely arrested and tortured. She was killed. Her murder became…
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Online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence
21 November 2022 Commander Richard Smith Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JL RE: Reporting online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence I, Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born writer and campaigner have been facing a barrage of threats and incitement to violence for over two months. There are hundreds, if not…
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Defending Secularism is the task of the Left
Defending Secularism is the task of the Left, first published in Spanish and Catalan in An Inclusive Secularism for a Diverse Society, Ferrer Guàrdia Report, 23 November 2022. English can be found here. Defending Secularism is the task of the Left Maryam Namazie Secularism is an important principle and fundamental human right. By secularism, I…
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Salman Rushdie and the Women’s Revolution in Iran are Linked
Salman Rushdie and the Women’s Revolution in Iran are Linked, NSS Blog, 8 November 2022 By Maryam Namazie There is a direct link between the threats and violence faced by Salman Rushdie and that faced by generations of women and men in Iran, says Maryam Namazie.. Salman Rushdie’s agent has confirmed that the courageous writer has lost…
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Cutting a flag isn’t a crime. Incitement to violence is
چند نکته و عذرخواهی در پی ویدیوی دیروز – پرچم مقدس نیست Some points and an apology following yesterday’s video – the flag is not sacred (in Persian): Summary of the video in English: This video is a follow up to yesterday’s video stating that the flag is not sacred. It was in response to…
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Defend your women’s revolution in Iran
See Maryam Namazie’s speech at FiLiA, Europe’s largest feminist conference, on #Iran’s #womensrevolution This is your revolution! Defend it Defend it Defend it Also with new song by @shelleysegal cover of Shervin Hajipour Baraye سخنرانی مریم نمازی در فیلیا، بزرگترین کنفرانس فمینیست اروپا در مورد انقلاب زنانه در ایران این انقلاب شماست. ازش دفاع…
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Protest for Iranian Lesbians on death row met with Allah-u-Akbar in Cologne
Protesters in Cologne, Germany, were met with aggressive heckling by a group of young Muslims on September 10. A video posted by Maryam Namazie, a London-based Iranian writer and activist, showed the counter-protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Namazie and her groups protested against Iran, sentencing LGBTQ activists Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Chobdar to death. According to Iran’s Urmia…