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Statement on attacks in Bangladesh

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 16, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • Bangladesh, Islamists, secularists
We, the undersigned academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and organizations from Bangladesh and around the world, unequivocally condemn recent statements by Bangladesh government officials appearing to blame writers, publishers, and activists for their own deaths at the hands of violent extremists with suspected links to militant Islamist groups. We strongly urge the Bangladesh government to […]
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On Jeremy Corbyn and Islamism: You can’t be progressive some of the time

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 24, 2015
  • 0 Comments
  • Islamic regime of Iran, Islamists, Jeremy Corbyn
New Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s policies against austerity and university fees and in favour of refugees, amongst others, are welcome. Nonetheless, we at Bread and Roses are concerned about Corbyn’s troubling associations with Islamists and the Islamic regime of Iran. Corbyn has spoken at the Iranian government’s anniversary of the “Islamic revolution” despite the […]
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Trinity College Dublin: Behind the Arras

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 23, 2015
  • 9 Comments
  • apostasy, ex-Muslims, Islamists, Trinity College Dublin
UPDATE: I will be speaking at Trinity College Dublin on 20 October 2015, thanks to invitation of Phil Soc. And so the whitewash begins with an “article” (or should we say editorial) by University Times on the cancellation of my talk at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on “Apostasy and the Rise of Islamism”, which was meant to be […]
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After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Support those Fighting the Religious-Right

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 7, 2015
  • 45 Comments
  • Charlie Hebdo, Islamists, religious-Right, Secularism
FRENCH: Après le massacre de Charlie Hebdo, Soutenons ceux qui se battent contre la droite religieuse SPANISH: Below After the massacre in Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, expressing indignation, as so many are doing, is not enough. A quick look at the English-speaking media shows that whilst many condemn the violence itself, […]
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United against ISIS and for Kobane

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 4, 2014
  • 4 Comments
  • ISIS, Islamists, Kobane, StWC, SWP
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, […]
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Just some more Islamist threats – but it won’t stop us

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 14, 2014
  • 10 Comments
  • Islamists, Secular Conference, Threats
It seems be an Islamist, you must not only have a thing for murder but you have to be downright stupid as well. Here’s an email circulated amongst the “brothers” on 10 October Friday before the 11-12 October conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights in London trying to mobilise their herds to stop our event […]
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Malala’s Lessons

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 20, 2012
  • 8 Comments
  • Islamists, Malala
The shooting of the wonderfully brave Malala Yousefzai by the Pakistani Taliban has brought to the fore many of the issues that I have been banging on about for a long time. Not all Muslims (or those labelled as Muslims) support Islamism and the likes of the Taliban. Many of them are its first victims […]
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