By Marieme Helie Lucas (Algerian sociologist) Reposted from SIAWI Also available in French. For the past three decades, we have been witnessing the implementation in…
Islam’s Non-Believers
A new film by Deeyah Khan, above – Islam’s Non-Believers – follows the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, which supports ex-Muslims, often referred to as…
Extended Interview with Maryam Namazie
Here is my extended interview with Scott Douglas Jacobsen for Conatus News published on 9 October 2016 How did you get involved in activism? I…
Hamza Sodagar and everything you need to know about Islamists.
The surfacing of a video by Hamza Sodagar (a US hate preacher trained by the Islamic regime of Iran) on killing gay men will tell…
Exposure: Islam’s Non-Believers
Islam’s Non Believers, a new film by the award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan, will be aired on 13 October 2016 on ITV Exposure at 10:40-11:40pm London…
The Disappeared: The veil and the erasure of the female body
This was published in The Freethinker today. When I was 12 years old, soon after the Islamists took power in Iran, their thugs came to…
We need to stop conflating ‘Muslims’ with Islamists
Here is my piece for this month’s The Freethinker: It’s insidious how the Islamist narrative has become mainstream everywhere – in the media, in social…
Sharia courts are a human rights scandal, The Freethinker
Here is my monthly column entitled Sharia courts are a human rights scandal in The Freethinker, 29 July 2016. You can also read it below. It is a…
Concerns over the inquiry into Sharia Councils must not be dismissed
My piece on the Theresa May inquiry into Sharia Councils published on Sedaa on 21 July: Over 200 women’s rights campaigners and organisations recently signed…
#ExMuslimBecause #INeedYourLove
On July 5, 2016 a number of ex-Muslims from Bangladesh, Britain, Iran, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan and Syria converged on Kings Cross for a flash “dance”…