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…
With rigour, against Islamism
A statement defending freedom of expression and the right to criticise Islam was published in today’s LIBERATION. Below is the English translation. A corner-stone of our…
Is this a joke Facebook? Banned again?
I got an email from someone asking why they couldn’t reach me on Facebook. I tried signing in and got the following message: Have you…
Maryam Namazie and Peter Tatchell honoured for defence of free speech on campuses
On 19 March, the National Secular Society held its annual Secularist of the Year award ceremony. The winner this year was Educate Together which promotes…
Confronting Islamism with Secularism, Free Expression and Citizenship Rights
The below is my speech prepared for European Parliament meeting on 23 February 2016. Today, I would like to focus on the importance of defending…
Free Speech: It’s not free unless it’s free for everyone
The below is Maryam Namazie’s opening remarks at Spiked Conference: The New Intolerance on Campus on “No Platform: should hate speech be free speech?” Freedom…
Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Below is my speech “Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS,” which I gave at Warwick University on 28 October 2015. I…
Warwick Student Union and the Islamist Narrative
Warwick Student Union (SU) has officially responded to the uproar surrounding their decision to refuse the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists’ Society (WASH) request to…
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…
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…