Category: Notes

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Maryam Namazie’s Opening Speech at #CelebratingDissent2022 سخنرانی افتتاحیه مریم نمازی در کنفرانس بین‌المللی تجلیل از ناهم اندیشی Maryam Namazie’s opening speech at #CelebratingDissent2022 calls the #exMuslim movement the new civil rights movement and says: #SalmanRushdie not the first nor the last attacked by #Iran & #Islamists. But as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said, ‘You can…

Maryam Namazie: “The Islamists are afraid of us”, Trend Detail, 25 August 2022 Translation of Interview in Charlie Hebdo: Maryam Namazie : « Les islamistes ont peur de nous », Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022 She fled the Iran of the Mullahs and founded, in Great Britain, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. We caught up…