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

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

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 7, 2017
  • 2 Comments
  • 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 … […]
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And still I rise

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 7, 2015
  • 16 Comments
  • 8 MArch, Islam, Islamism, IWD, topless action
FARSI AND FRENCH BELOW Commemorating 8 March, International Women’s Day Maryam Namazie Islam, like all religions, despises women. Islamism and its Sharia laws are obsessed with controlling and restricting women. Under their rule, the “perfect” woman knows “her place”: veiled, segregated, erased from the public space. She is the “disappeared”. Bound and gagged. Not seen […]
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We are not free until all women are free

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 10, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • IWD, Taslima Nasrin
I’m back from Germany. The International Women’s Day event in Frankfurt was wonderful! Here are some photos of the event. You can find my speech here. Videos of the speeches will follow. Unfortunately Taslima Nasrin and Nawal El-Sadaawi couldn’t make it. Below are their messages to the conference: Dear friends! My Iranian sisters. You are so […]
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