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:

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, […]

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 […]

Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 26, 2017
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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 […]

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

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 24, 2017
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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 […]

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 […]

On 8 March, International Women’s Day: Fuck modesty

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On March 7, 2017
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Islam, Islamism, IWD, religious-Right, women

My latest piece in The Freethinker to mark International Women’s Day. Wherever Islamism gains power and influence, it comes for women first. And it’s always a sign of worse to come, hence the saying: ‘the freedom of society is measured by the freedom of women.’ Islamism but also the Christian-Right, Buddhist-Right, Jewish-Right, Hindu-Right, Sikh-Right … […]

Common humanity should be at the core of our politics

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 20, 2017
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far-Right, Islamism, Islamophobia, migration, Racism

The below is my monthly column for The Freethinker published on 19 February. You can read it there too: Common humanity should be at the core of our politics too. I was born in Iran; I am a migrant, a refugee. But I am not the “authentic other” that xenophobes love to hate nor am I the […]

Confronting Islamism with Secularism

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On December 13, 2016
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Islamism, Secularism

Monograph · Evening Discussion with Richard Dawkins at European Parliament organised by Euromind Maryam Namazie A future Europe must be secular. By secularism I mean the complete separation of religion from the state (and not the British version of equal tolerance for religions, which breeds communalism). Whilst freedom of religion or belief is an important […]

Hamza Sodagar and everything you need to know about Islamists.

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On October 7, 2016
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Hamza Sodagar, Iran, Islamism

The surfacing of a video by Hamza Sodagar (a US hate preacher trained by the Islamic regime of Iran) on killing gay men will tell you everything you need to know about Islamists. You must have seen the video by now: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One, the easiest […]

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