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Repeal Moroccan Article 222: Stop penalising people for eating during Ramadan

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On June 23, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • Fasting, Morocco, Ramadan
Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code states that: “a person commonly known to be Muslim who violates the fast in a public place during Ramadan, without having one of the justifications allowed by Islam [such as travelling or sickness], shall be punished by one to six months in prison,” as well as a fine. […]
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Support Picnic during Ramadan

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On August 2, 2013
  • 1 Comments
  • Algeria, Picnic, Ramadan
An initiative in Algeria is organising a picnic during Ramadan to stand up to the inquisition and defend freedom of conscience. They are protesting the harassment of those who do not choose to observe fasting during Ramadan. The picnic will be held on August 3, 2013 at 12pm in Algeria.   Many Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, […]
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Channel 4 – Report on this!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 18, 2013
  • 1 Comments
  • Channel 4, Ramadan, Tunisia
I wrote earlier about Channel 4’s daily call to prayer for Ramadan as much of the same old same old pandering to identity politics. In my previous post I mentioned how Channel 4 should report on the many who refuse to fast and who are threatened into fasting and still refuse. Here’s a great example of […]
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Channel 4’s daily call to prayers for Ramadan same old, same old

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 9, 2013
  • 9 Comments
  • Channel 4, Ramadan
Channel 4 is airing the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan every morning and also broadcasting a series of programmes about Ramadan. It says it is doing so as a deliberate act of “provocation” to challenge viewers who associate Islam with terrorism and extremism. Far from being provocative, however, it is just more of the […]
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