Your beliefs are not more important than mine

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 10, 2017
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I’m getting lots of these Facebook messages in messenger (in addition to all the other charming ones from sensitive souls who are so hurt by women’s bodies and criticism of Islam that they have no more sensitivity left in them for murder and mayhem.) Let me respond here en masse: I find your religion offensive, […]

Ex-Muslims out, loud and proud at Pride in London

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 10, 2017
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Islam, LGBT, Pride

On 8 July, CEMB was at Pride in London in full force highlighting the plight of LGBT in countries under Islamic rule with bodypainting by the award-winning Victoria Gugenheim. The march went ahead as planned, though police initially tried to remove placards with the slogan “Allah is Gay” because of complaints of “offence”. Whilst a […]

In Toronto LGBT Iranians were branded as ‘Islamophobes’

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 6, 2017
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Islamophobia, Pride

My latest piece in The Freethinker. At Toronto Pride on June 25 some ‘anti-fascists’ surrounded Iranian refugees and LGBTQ activists and absurdly chanted ‘No Hate at Pride’ – as if defending LGBTQ people in Iran or countries under Islamic rule is ‘hateful’. Police intervention ensured that they weren’t able to stop the Iranians from joining […]

No Apologies

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On June 27, 2017
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atheism, ex-muslim, Islam, Islamism

This is my letter to you, not you the racist or Islamist but you who I should call friend: I Accuse‬. Published in sister-hood, 27 June 2017. Spanish Translation This is my letter to you. Not you, the Islamist, who wants me silent or dead whilst dreaming of your vile caliphate, nor you, the racist, […]

Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On June 7, 2017
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Islamism, terrorism

This month’s piece in The Freethinker. Since 1 June – that’s one week – there have been 25 terrorist attacks, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia and the UK. The latest took place today in Iran. Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, women sex slaves […]

Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 26, 2017
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Islam, Islamism, women

Below is my monthly column for The Freethinker entitled: Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman, 25 May 2016 As US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said: You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. In one Hadith, Mohammed, Islam’s prophet […]

Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 24, 2017
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Islam, Islamism, Sulaymaniyah

Our spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, was invited by Dabran Platform to speak at the Founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan (photos below). She spoke about Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation and how Islamists target women and girls first – whether in Tehran, Peshawar or Manchester. Here’s her speech: Islam […]

اسلام و اسلام سياسى بزگترين سد راه رهائى زنان

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 24, 2017
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به دعوت سازمان پلاتفرم دابران براى شركت در كنگره مؤسس فمنيسم روشنگرى به سليمانيه سفر كرده بودم. من درباره اسلام و اسلام سياسى بعنوان مهمترين سد راه رهائى زنان سخنرانى كردم۔ ترجمه متن سخنرانى ام اسلام و اسلام سياسى بزگترين سد راه رهائى زنان (* اليزابت استانتن، از رهبران جنبش سافرجت كفته بود: إنجيل […]

A piece of my heart in Sulaymaniyah

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 24, 2017
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Sulaimaniyah

I had a wonderful time in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan with Houzan Mahmoud, Ismail Hamamin Hamalaw, Peshraw Hassan and friends at Dabran Platform پلاتفۆرمی دابڕان. Even with the Iranian regime and daesh close by, I felt safe and at home. Everything was so familiar. I’m back but I left a piece of my heart in Sulaymaniyah… چقدر […]

From Sulaymaniyah to Manchester – grief and solidarity against hate

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 23, 2017
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Islamist terrorism, Manchester, Sulaymaniyeh

I returned today from Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan after speaking at the founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism (more of this soon). The city – next to Iran and not far from Daesh held territories – is a testament to the fight against Islamist terrorism and for secularism and a renewed enlightenment. There, people mourn their children and […]

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