Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

Tag: ISIS

  • The answer is a global human resistance to Islamism

    FRENCH: Attaques sur Paris : la réponse doit être une résistance humaine globale à l’islamisme We mourn our dead in Paris today and stand in solidarity with the people of France – no ifs or buts. And whilst we mourn the dead, let us not forget the many other civilians who whilst going about their daily lives…

  • Promoting Secularism in the age of ISIS

    See my speech at the INR5 Conference in Vancouver, Canada in June this year. Here is the text of the speech.

  • United against ISIS and for Kobane

    Here’s my speech at the 1 November Global day of Action for Kobane: I was disgusted to see Social Workers’ Party and Stop the War Coalition speaking at the protest when they have been the stalwart defenders of the “ISIS” of Iran and other countries. If you don’t know about their collaboration with the Islamists,…

  • Secular Conference 2014 rallies in support of Kobane and against religious-Right

    Press Release 15 October 2014 The two-day International Conference on the Religious Right, Secularism and Civil Rights held in London during 11-12 October 2014 was a rousing success. A broad coalition of secularists, including believers, free-thinkers, agnostics and atheists assembled from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and the Diaspora at the unprecedented and…

  • Promoting global secular alternative in the ISIS era

    MARIEME HÉLIE-LUCAS and MARYAM NAMAZIE 4 October 2014 While many of us watch in horror as ISIS advances, and fundamentalist ideas spread across religious traditions around the world, Maryam Namazie and Marieme Hélie-Lucas – secular feminists from Iran and Algeria – told Karima Bennoune why they are convening the International Secular Conference in London next…

  • One-finger response to ISIS (Islamic State)

    ISIS has a one-finger salute. Here’s Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya’s One-finger response to ISIS (Islamic State)

  • Maryam Namazie tears ISIS flag

    At the World Humanist Congress this weekend, I urged Humanists to stop self-flagellating and called on them to focus on the fascists of our era – the Islamists – rather than looking inwards to the so-called “aggressive atheists”. It’s during a question and answer period with Richard Dawkins where I also mention his contribution to…

  • Islam in the state is the end of everything worthy of a 21 century life

    The below is my opening remarks at the World Humanist Congress today 9 August 2014. In this day and age, there is most certainly something about Islam. Not because it is any worse than other religions. As I have said many times before, all religions are equal and equally bad. No religion looks favourably upon…

  • ISIS is the fascism of our times

    داعش فاشىسم اين دوره در دفاع از مردم کردستان عراق و سينجار ISIS is fascism of our time In support of people of Sinjar 8 August 2014

  • The lives of thousands of people in Iraqi Kurdistan are in danger

    Statement by the Worker-communist Party of Iran Following the atrocities of the barbaric Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Iraq, thousands of people have fled to the mountains from fear of this group, and are in danger of dying. In the past five days, areas to the east of Mosul, including the town of Shangal, have…

  • We are all anti-ISIS

    ISIS is the banner of this era’s fascism. We are all anti-Fascists; we are all anti-ISIS. #UniteforSinjar