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If it’s alright with the Guardian, we won’t welcome Islamism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 29, 2011
  • 6 Comments
  • Islamism
You have to love the Guardian. They never waiver from defending political Islam every which way they can. They have published yet another article on why we should support Islamism in the Middle East. Wadah Khanfar, the director general of al-Jazeera tells us that Islamism is just Muslims involved in the public sphere. To me […]
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They finally killed writer Rafiq Tagi

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 24, 2011
  • 3 Comments
  • Islamism, Rafiq Tagi
In 2006, Ayatollah Lankarani issued a death fatwa against Azerbaijani writer Rafiq Tagi for his writings. In 2007, a Baku court sentenced him to three years in jail for criticising Islam and Islam’s prophet Muhammad. He was pardoned and released later that year. But now they have finally killed him.
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This week’s Jinn and Tonic Show

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 23, 2011
  • 0 Comments
  • Islam, Islamism
I was a guest co-host on “The Jinn and Tonic show” on November 19th, 2011. The Jinn and Tonic Show is a bi-weekly live Internet chat show discussing Islam, including calls from Muslims. It is the sister show of The Magic Sandwich Show and is akin to an Islamic oriented version of The Atheist Experience. […]
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Calling All Nude Photo Revolutionaries

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 22, 2011
  • 14 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Islamism, women
Remember Calendar Girls when a group of women posed nude to raise money for charity? As a follow up to the photo of Israeli women who stripped in solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, why not make a calendar of Nude Photo Revolutionaries in homage to Aliaa and also to raise awareness on free […]
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Some women are deficient in intelligence…

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 21, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Egypt, Islam, Islamism, women
Mona Salah, an Egyptian parliament candidate for the Islamist Salafi Movement told Al-Sharq Alawsat (an Egyptian newspaper) ‘Women are deficient in mind and religion’* and are not permitted to have authority by taking on the position of Presidency.
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Nude photo of Egyptian blogger is a scream against Islamism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 18, 2011
  • 92 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Egypt, Islamism
Student, atheist and blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, 20, posted naked pictures of herself on her blog to show her “screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy”. Showing her body particularly at a time when Islamists in Egypt are trying to secure power is the ultimate act of rebellion. Don’t forget […]
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The far-Right and Islamism: Two sides of one coin

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 14, 2011
  • 6 Comments
  • Anders Behring Breivik, far-Right, Islamism
The Norwegian far-Right extremist Anders Behring Brevik who murdered 77 people in cold-blood in July had his first public hearing today. As I’ve said before whilst the far-Right targets Islamism, they are both two sides of the same coin.
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Simplicity is killing us…

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 8, 2011
  • 14 Comments
  • far-Right, Islam, Islamism, pro-Islamist Left, Sharia
In September 2011, I spoke at a meeting on Sharia law in Copenhagen, Denmark organised by the Danish atheists. The discussion was on sharia law but as in most talks on the issue, I also dealt extensively with the far-Right, the racist scapegoating and blaming of immigrants and Muslims for the crimes of Islamism and […]
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