Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

Tag: Rafiq Tagi

  • MEPs condemn the assassination of Islam critic, Rafiq Tagi

    In early December, Mina Ahadi, Nick Cohen, Richard Dawkins, Taslima Nasrin, Salman Rushdie, Joan Smith and I wrote a letter to the European parliament calling on them to condemn and investigate the assassination of Islam critic Rafiq Tagi. Mina Ahadi delivered our letter during her meeting with the office of the European Parliament President. Mina…

  • Azerbaijan’s ‘Salman Rushdie’ murdered

    Jahan News has gleefully reported that ‘Azerbaijan’s Salman Rushdie has been murdered’. The Islamic regime of Iran’s mouthpiece says writer Rafiq Tagi was despised by the people of Azerbaijan for his attack on Islam’s prophet Mohammad. Actually, it is for that very reason that he was renowned and beloved… Via Mina Ahadi

  • They finally killed writer 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.