The Freethinker interviews Maryam Namazie and Marieme Helie Lucas ahead of the International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression in the 21 Century scheduled…
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Sayeeda Warsi’s Blinkered View of Islamism
LifestyleBooks The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi – review A blinkered view of Islamism, says Maryam Namazie Evening Standard 6…
در ٨ مارس٬ روز جهانى زن٬ فاك حجب و حيا
هر گاه كه اسلاميون به قدرت ميرسند، ابتدا سراغ زنان مى آيند و اين نشانه اى است از تخريب اوضاع؛ از اينرو كه معيار آزادى…
On 8 March, International Women’s Day: Fuck modesty
My latest piece in The Freethinker to mark International Women’s Day. Wherever Islamism gains power and influence, it comes for women first. And it’s always…
Free expression and safe spaces
Here is a video of the frank panel discussion on free expression and safe spaces that took place at Centre for Inquiry’s Women in Secularism…
Identity politics and the art of deception
One of the things that is most troubling about identity politics and multiculturalism as a social policy is how deception becomes a necessity in defending…
A Response to Tariq Modood: We need less religion, not more, in the public space
Below are my opening remarks during a conversation with Sociologist Tariq Modood at Westminster University on Secularism and Diversity on 24 February 2017 organised by…
Free Baquer Namazi now
Baquer Namazi is an 80 years old children’s rights campaigner. He has been sentenced to ten years in prison by the Islamic regime of Iran.…
More restrictions at universities and words of warning
According to a recent report, more than nine in 10 UK universities are restrictive of free speech. This doesn’t surprise me at all. I continue…