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#JeSuisSamuelPaty #JeSuisCharlie

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 19, 2020
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  • Charlie Hebdo, nude protest, Samuel Paty
#JeSuisSamuel #JeSuisSamuelPaty #JeSuisCharlie Some have been asking the purpose of nude protest. A nude woman as political action is antithesis of the veiled, submissive woman. I will be nude, I […]
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 Cartoons are an Excuse!

Cartoons are an Excuse!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 19, 2020
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  • 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 […]
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 In Support of Charlie Hebdo: We’re Not Offended

In Support of Charlie Hebdo: We’re Not Offended

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 16, 2020
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  • Charlie Hebdo
Today’s issue of Charlie Hebdo with (mostly) #exMuslims, thanks to Inna Shevchenko. Caricatures de Mahomet : Paroles de musulmans non offensés, Charlie Hebdo, 16 September 2020 Translation of my contribution: […]
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I am still Charlie

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 1, 2016
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  • Charlie Hebdo, Tariq Ramadan
I was Charlie 6 years ago; today Je Suis Charlie and I will always be Charlie.
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Charlie Hebdo’s Mohammed cartoon was not Islamophobic

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 1, 2016
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  • Charlie Hebdo, Islamophobia, Tariq Ramadan
My opening remarks at Oxford Union debate with Tariq Ramadan on 29 February 2016 Criticism of religion – however offensive – is not racism against believers. Islamophobia is in fact […]
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Islam and the “culture of offence”: missing the point

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 12, 2015
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  • Charlie Hebdo, free expression, Islam, Islamism, offence
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 has been – and remains […]
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Charlie Hebdo: There is no “culture of offence”

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 30, 2015
  • 22 Comments
  • Charlie Hebdo, Culture of offence
Below are my opening remarks at a 29 January panel discussion organised by UCL Atheist Society entitled “Living in outrageous times: Charlie Hebdo and the culture of offence”. The two other […]
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A defence of Charlie Hebdo must also turn into defence of other blasphemers and apostates

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 8, 2015
  • 2 Comments
  • Bishoy Boulous Armia, Charlie Hebdo, Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, Fata Naoot, Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Raif Badawi, Soheil Arabi, Souad al-Shammary
FRENCH: Toute défense de Charlie Hebdo doit également devenir celle d’autres blasphémateurs et apostats SPANISH – BELOW Those of us who have openly criticised Islam and Islamism have faced many […]
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