Category: Notes
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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…
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Maryam Namazie’s Review of Prey: Immigration, Islam and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Evening Standard, 27 February 2021
Prey, review by Maryam Namazie, Evening Standard, 27 February 2021 In her new book , the Somali-born critic of Islam appears more concerned with defending the criminalisation of migration than finding solutions to end the rise in sexual violence against women in the UK and Europe, says Maryam Namazie Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born…
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In Defence of French Secularism with Maryam Namazie, Byline TV, 16 February 2021
The Left’s Problem with Islamism with Maryam Namazie, Byline TV, 16 February 2021
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Hijab Day is like FGM or Breast-Ironing Day – a celebration of misogyny and sexism
Maryam Namazie’s remarks as challenge to World Hijab Day: Hijab Day is like FGM or Breast-Ironing Day – a celebration of misogyny and sexism Other brilliant speakers at the event were: Farideh Arman, Jenny A Wenhammar, Lilith Khannum, Mina Ahadi, Rana Ahmad, Sarabi and Shahad. #WomenLeavingIslam #FromHijabToFreedom #NoForcedHijab #NoHijabDay #FreeFromHijab
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About the Ex-Muslim movement with Maryam Namazie and Ali Malik
Ali Malik speaks to Maryam Namazie about the ex-Muslim movement, how it started, its aims and its impact on the human right to apostasy and blasphemy.
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Maryam Namazie: Muslims are the primary victims of Islamism, sister-hood, 4 November 2020
Maryam Namazie: Muslims are the primary victims of Islamism, sister-hood, 4 November 2020 The recent heinous attacks in France and Austria are just the latest additions to the countless Islamist terrorist attacks world-wide. Most take place in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia: the victims mainly Muslims – or those presumed to be Muslims…
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“The right to criticize Islam is crucial for us atheists of Muslim culture,” SIAWI, 2 November 2020
The below is the English version of an extended interview published in L’Express magazine on 1 November 2020. You can see the full interview in French here. The English was published on Secularism is a Women’s Issue. In a vibrant interview, Iranian feminist Maryam Namazie calls on the left to see the real nature of…
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“Le droit de critiquer l’islam est crucial pour nous athées de culture musulmane”, L’Express, 1 November 2020
“Le droit de critiquer l’islam est crucial pour nous athées de culture musulmane”, L’Express, 1 November 2020 « Le droit de critiquer l’islam est crucial pour nous athées de culture musulmane » Propos recueillis par Thomas Mahler, publié le 01/11/2020 à 13:00 , mis à jour à 16:18 Dans un entretien vibrant, la féministe iranienne Maryam Namazie…
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Cartoons are an Excuse!
Cartoons are an excuse. Everything “provokes” Islamists – Being a woman, freethinker, gay, unveiled, ex-Muslim, atheist, religiously unprescribed sex, laughing out loud, music… If you think that killings will stop if you stop drawing cartoons, you cannot see the innumerable in prisons & on death row in Iran, Asia, Mid East, North Africa for “provoking”…
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The Woman’s Quran
On 30 September, #BlasphemyDay, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) publishes The Woman’s Quran (114 Pages for 114 Surahs). It is blank because all religions degrade women and because the Quran, Islam and Islamism are the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation. (*A reference to US Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “The Bible…
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In Support of Charlie Hebdo: We’re Not Offended
Today’s issue of Charlie Hebdo with (mostly) #exMuslims, thanks to Inna Shevchenko. Caricatures de Mahomet : Paroles de musulmans non offensés, Charlie Hebdo, 16 September 2020 Translation of my contribution: “A progressive, satirical anti-clerical tradition such as that of Charlie Hebdo’s is not the sole domain of the West. When Charlie Hebdo draws Mohammed, it…