hate speech | Maryam Namazie

Free Speech: It’s not free unless it’s free for everyone

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 17, 2016
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free expression, hate speech, Islam, Islamism, NUS

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 of speech in British universities is under heavier assault than ever before in large part due to the proclaimed desire by the National Union of Students (NUS) to maintain student […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On June 9, 2014
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hate speech, IERA, Islamism

Below is an email I just received from iERA – the organisation we recently exposed as a hate group (not charity) in our report entitled Evangelising Hate. They are now threatening the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) and myself with legal action unless we remove one paragraph on my blog (though they are also “taking legal advice on the […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 29, 2012
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hate speech

I was on a panel discussion this past weekend on free expression. In such discussions, there are always those who are proponents of banning ‘hate’ speech because they say it causes emotional distress and can lead to discrimination. My response is that much of religion is hate speech. Have they read the Koran or Bible […]

Free Speech: It’s not free unless it’s free for everyone

Really iERA? Legal action?

You want to ban hate speech? Isn’t that what religion is?