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Cartoons are an Excuse!

Cartoons are an Excuse!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 19, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, Samuel Paty
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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We need more cartoons

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 12, 2012
  • 4 Comments
  • cartoons
Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokrayeh has been sentenced to 25 lashes for ‘insulting’ a Member of the Islamic Assembly, Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, by drawing him in a football kit. The cartoon is criticising the interference of politicians in sports. Another Iranian cartoonist, Mana Neyestani, condemned the sentence as “cruel and uncivilised” and called on others to publish more […]
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