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De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 16, 2019
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  • De Balie, Dissent, ex-Muslims, Islam, Islamism, women
The epic ‘Celebrating Dissent’ Festival took place between 30 August -1 September in Amsterdam, a collaboration between the prestigious art and debate institute De Balie and Maryam Namazie. Consisting of a mixture of intense, probing conversations, comedy, art, poetry and dance performances, films, lectures and protest, the weekend was an education in the issues facing […]
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Fundamentalism and White Nationalism: the same, just wearing different clothes

Fundamentalism and White Nationalism: the same, just wearing different clothes

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 21, 2019
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  • cultural relativism, Equality, far-Right, homophobia, Islam, Islamic feminists, Islamism, Maryam Namazie, Racism, religion, Secularism, terrorism
Below is the English version of an interview with Marieke Hoogwout published in Dutch in Vrij Links on 20 March 2019. The interview was conducted before the Christchurch and Utrecht terrorist attacks this month. You can read the Dutch interview here.  In January, Iranian-British human rights activist Maryam Namazie gave the 24th Freedom Lecture at […]
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Outrage at #ChristchurchMosqueAttack

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 16, 2019
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  • Christchurch mosques, Far-Right Terrorism, Islamism, New Zealand, White Nationalism
We are outraged at the far-Right terrorist attacks on mosques in New Zealand. Those killed could have been our beloved; our hearts go out to the victims and survivors of these heinous attacks. We recognise the xenophobic, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim, white nationalists in the Islamists. Both are far-Right movements that rely on religion, violence, hate, […]
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پریود_طبیعی_است# #PeriodsAreNatural

پریود_طبیعی_است# #PeriodsAreNatural

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 4, 2019
  • 1 Comments
  • #PeriodsAreNatural, International Women's Day, Iran, Islam, Islamism, Maryam Namazie, Pakistan, Periods, religion, Sadia Hameed, Taboo, اسلامی, اعتراض عريان, ایران, روز جهانی زن, مردسالاری, پرچم, پریود, ۸ مارس
English Below اعتراض روز جهانی زن پریود_طبیعی_است# در میان گروه ارتدوکس‌های یهودی، در دوران عادت ماهانه زن، مرد و زن حق دست زدن یا رد و بدل کردن هیچ گونه اشیا را به هم ندارند در بخشی از بودایی‌های ژاپنی زنان که عادت ماهانه دارند اجازه ورود به معبد را ندارند در هندویسم زنان در […]
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Fighting against Islam and Islamism

Fighting against Islam and Islamism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 25, 2017
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  • Islam, Islamism
Here is my speech at the 40th Freedom from Religion Foundation Convention in Madison, WI during 15-17 September whilst receiving the Henry H. Zumach Freedom From Religious Fundamentalism award:
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No Apologies

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On June 27, 2017
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  • atheism, ex-muslim, Islam, Islamism
This is my letter to you, not you the racist or Islamist but you who I should call friend: I Accuse‬. Published in sister-hood, 27 June 2017. Spanish Translation This is my letter to you. Not you, the Islamist, who wants me silent or dead whilst dreaming of your vile caliphate, nor you, the racist, […]
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Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On June 7, 2017
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  • Islamism, terrorism
This month’s piece in The Freethinker. Since 1 June – that’s one week – there have been 25 terrorist attacks, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia and the UK. The latest took place today in Iran. Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, women sex slaves […]
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Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman

Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 26, 2017
  • 2 Comments
  • Islam, Islamism, women
Below is my monthly column for The Freethinker entitled: Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman, 25 May 2016 As US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said: You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. In one Hadith, Mohammed, Islam’s prophet […]
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Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation

Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 24, 2017
  • 5 Comments
  • Islam, Islamism, Sulaymaniyah
Our spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, was invited by Dabran Platform to speak at the Founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan (photos below). She spoke about Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation and how Islamists target women and girls first – whether in Tehran, Peshawar or Manchester. Here’s her speech: Islam […]
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Sayeeda Warsi’s Blinkered View of Islamism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 8, 2017
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  • Islamism, Warsi
LifestyleBooks The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi – review A blinkered view of Islamism, says Maryam Namazie Evening Standard 6 April 2016 Sayeeda Warsi’s new book catalogues some of the hypocrisy and double standards of the British Government, the rise of the far-Right and bigotry against Muslims, yet has a […]
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