FARSI AND FRENCH BELOW Commemorating 8 March, International Women’s Day Maryam Namazie Islam, like all religions, despises women. Islamism and its Sharia laws are obsessed…
Support ‘immoral’ and ‘corrupt’ Bread and Roses
Support Bread & Roses TV or NanoGoleSorkh, a taboo-breaking, free-thinking weekly programme broadcast in Iran via New Channel TV and available on Youtube, which the…
Like Mukto-muna, we are united in our grief and remain undefeated
SIGN BELOW STATEMENT HERE. We are outraged by the senseless and brutal hacking to death of well known scientist, atheist and writer Avijit Roy and the…
Two Brothers, Ali and Habib Afshari were executed on the same day!
See statement of International Committee against Execution below: On Friday, February 20th the Afshari family was informed that these two political prisoners, Ali Afshari and…
Stop executing “apostates” and “blasphemers” and release them now!
Press Release of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain reproduced below: On 22 February 2015, a Saudi court sentenced a man in his twenties to death…
Saman Nasim must not be executed tomorrow
19 February Update: Saman Nasim’s brother says his brother has not been executed according to officials. We must keep the pressure on. Listen to interview with…
Shahin Najafi: Dying Standing Up
Here’s a video of Shahin Najafi in concert, singing “Dying Standing Up” in response to the death fatwa against him for an earlier song called…
On Paris and Copenhagen: Islam and the “culture of offence”: missing the point
After the terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, dissent and criticism of religion is a life and death necessity. It has been–and remains–key for human…
Islam and the “culture of offence”: missing the point
First published in Open Democracy on 12 February 2015 In the age of ISIS, dissent and criticism of religion is a life and death necessity. It…
Press Release: Much needed 7 February Conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism
PRESS RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2015 Secularists will be gathering on 7 February 2015 in London for a day conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism.…