Guardian | Maryam Namazie

The Guardian: Through Islamist Eyes

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On October 13, 2015
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Free speech, Guardian, Islamism, left, Warwick University

I emailed The Guardian on 2 October to ask for the right to reply to David Shariatmadari’s apologetics for Islamism. My article, Why I Speak against Islamism, was finally published on 13 October at 5pm after much delay and back and forth over “edits.” On 8 October, the Acting Editor for Comment is Free wrote […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 13, 2014
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Fahma Mohamed, FGM, Guardian, Lisa Zimmermann

By now you must have heard about the campaign by a 17 year old girl Fahma Mohamed with the Guardian to end FGM. The petition, which has received nearly 200,000 signatures, has succeeded in getting Fahma a meeting with the Education Secretary to raise a very simple yet effective solution to this horrendous problem in […]

The Guardian: Through Islamist Eyes

It takes courage to go against the grain