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MARYAM NAMAZIE: Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly ‘offensive’ stance on Islam

MARYAM NAMAZIE: Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly ‘offensive’ stance on Islam

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 12, 2016
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  • Charlie Hebdo, Free speech, Goldsmiths, Islam, Islamism, Safe Spaces, universities
Original published in Daily Mail on 9 January 2016 This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people […]
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Goldsmiths Student Union request and more

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 4, 2015
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  • Goldsmiths, Islamic Society, Student Union
I have received the following email from the Chief Executive of Goldsmiths Students’ Union today (one of three since yesterday) asking to remove the video of my talk for the Atheists Society on Monday 30 November on Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the age of ISIS. You can see my reply refusing to do so below. […]
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Video: Goldsmith University Islamist thugs fail to disrupt speech on blasphemy and apostasy

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 3, 2015
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  • apostasy, blasphemy, Goldsmiths, Islam, Islamism, ISOC
SEE VIDEO BELOW Maryam Namazie spoke on “apostasy, blasphemy and free expression in the age of ISIS” on 30 November 2015 at Goldsmiths University at the invitation of the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society (ASH). Goldsmiths Islamic Society (ISOC) called for the talk’s cancellation saying Maryam’s presence is “a violation to [their] safe space,” and […]
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Goldsmiths ISOC fails to intimidate and silence dissenters

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 1, 2015
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  • Goldsmiths, ISOC
I spoke on 30 November 2015 at Goldsmiths University at the invitation of the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society (ASH). The night before my talk, the ASH president received an email from the president of Goldsmiths Islamic Society (ISOC) saying the following: As an Islamic society, we feel extremely uncomfortable by the fact that you […]
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