Defending Rasheed
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On June 13, 2012
- 7 Comments
- free expression, Islam, Maldives
Ismail ‘Hilath’ Rasheed, a Maldivian blogger, journalist and free speech advocate, has been brutally attacked near his home on 4 June 2012. His throat was slit through the trachea and […]
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Where do you draw the line?
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On May 24, 2012
- 0 Comments
- free expression
On 26 May 2012 from 4.30 – 6pm at the Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre, I will be joining a panel discussion staged by Index on Censorship and Free Word as […]
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Richard Dawkins
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On February 19, 2012
- 5 Comments
- free expression
Here’s Dawkins speech at the 11 February free expression rally. Best lines: A scholar usually needs to have read more than one book, people need to ‘stop being so damn […]
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Don’t barter away our free expression
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On January 11, 2012
- 2 Comments
- censorship, free expression, Jesus and Mo, UCL ASH
The UCL Atheist, Humanist and Secular Society (ASH) has published a report on the December event where Anne Marie Waters and I debated members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association […]
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Dawkins guest-edit New Statesman Christmas issue
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On December 9, 2011
- 1 Comments
- free expression
In a 100-page special issue, the evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins guest-edits the Christmas double issue of the New Statesman. I have a piece in there about Islam […]
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Investigate Rafiq Tagi’s assassination!
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On December 1, 2011
- 0 Comments
- free expression
We are calling on the EU to send a mission to investigate the assassination of prominent writer Rafiq Tagi, ‘Azerbaijan’s Salman Rushdie’. Mina will be meeting with EU officials on […]
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Sorry but Islam and Mohammad are not off-limits
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On November 6, 2011
- 51 Comments
- Charlie Hebdo, free expression, Islam, mohammad
Charles Hebdo, the French publication that was firebombed a few days ago for mocking Islam and Islam’s prophet Mohammad is gathering messages of solidarity to publish in its next issue, […]
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