Category: Notes
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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…
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Maryam Namazie’s Opening Speech at #CelebratingDissent2022
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…
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Maryam Namazie: The Islamists are afraid of Us, Charlie Hebdo
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…
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‘The best way to combat bad speech is with good speech’ – interview with Maryam Namazie
‘The best way to combat bad speech is with good speech’ – interview with Maryam Namazie, The Freethinker, 12 March 2022 Maryam Namazie is the founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and a founding member of One Law for All. Born in Iran, she moved to the US in 1983 after the revolution of 1979, and to…
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Surah of the Donkey from the Woman’s Quran
July 2022 Another Surah from #womansquran آیه دیگری از قران زن ای مومنین، اگر موی زنان شما را آزار میدهد چشم بند خر را برای شما آفریدیم قران زن، سوره حمار، آیه ۵۹ Oh ye believing men. If a woman’s hair bothers you, a donkey’s mask has been created just for you. Woman’s Quran, Surah…
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If anyone has to apologise, it’s you Masih Alinejad ک اگر قرار است کسی عذرخواهی کند شما هستید خانم مسیح علینژاد
FARSI BELOW If anyone has to apologise, it’s you Masih Alinejad, Maryam Namazie In her recent Voice of America Tablet programme, Masih Alinejad makes the claim that the 1979 (1357) generation is to blame for the Islamic regime of Iran. She says: “…Those who took an active part in the revolution” “must all one day be…
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Creativity in Protesting Religious Fundamentalism, TedX Warwick with Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie’s TedX Warwick talk on Creativity in Protesting Religious Fundamentalism has finally been published a year later but without slides. Before my talk, there was an attempt to censor some of my slides with nudity. Also, the Islamic Society at Warwick University had petitioned against my talk. I refused to remove any of my…