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Islam Kills

Islam Kills

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 16, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Islam, religion
#Islam kills. Like cigarettes, #religions should come with a health warning. @MaryamNamazie اسلام می کشد# همانند‌ سیگار، #مذاهب باید با هشدار سلامتی بیایند مریم نمازی
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Fundamentalism and White Nationalism: the same, just wearing different clothes

Fundamentalism and White Nationalism: the same, just wearing different clothes

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 21, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • cultural relativism, Equality, far-Right, homophobia, Islam, Islamic feminists, Islamism, Maryam Namazie, Racism, religion, Secularism, terrorism
Below is the English version of an interview with Marieke Hoogwout published in Dutch in Vrij Links on 20 March 2019. The interview was conducted before the Christchurch and Utrecht terrorist attacks this month. You can read the Dutch interview here.  In January, Iranian-British human rights activist Maryam Namazie gave the 24th Freedom Lecture at […]
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پریود_طبیعی_است# #PeriodsAreNatural

پریود_طبیعی_است# #PeriodsAreNatural

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 4, 2019
  • 1 Comments
  • #PeriodsAreNatural, International Women's Day, Iran, Islam, Islamism, Maryam Namazie, Pakistan, Periods, religion, Sadia Hameed, Taboo, اسلامی, اعتراض عريان, ایران, روز جهانی زن, مردسالاری, پرچم, پریود, ۸ مارس
English Below اعتراض روز جهانی زن پریود_طبیعی_است# در میان گروه ارتدوکس‌های یهودی، در دوران عادت ماهانه زن، مرد و زن حق دست زدن یا رد و بدل کردن هیچ گونه اشیا را به هم ندارند در بخشی از بودایی‌های ژاپنی زنان که عادت ماهانه دارند اجازه ورود به معبد را ندارند در هندویسم زنان در […]
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A Response to Tariq Modood: We need less religion, not more, in the public space

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 28, 2017
  • 0 Comments
  • religion, Secularism, Tariq Modood
Below are my opening remarks during a conversation with Sociologist Tariq Modood at Westminster University on Secularism and Diversity on 24 February 2017 organised by the University’s Secular Adviser, Isabel Millar. The event went ahead as planned even though Jihadi John’s Islamic Society tried but abysmally failed to “disinvite” me. Which goes to show once […]
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Misogyny in the name of God

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 31, 2015
  • 0 Comments
  • Misogyny, religion
Just returned from Bergen International Festival where I participated in a panel discussion on Misogyny in the name of God with the fantastic Deeyah Khan, Gunnar Stålsett, Cecilie Ore and John Peder Egenæs. It was chaired by Hilde Sandvik. امروۯ اۯ برگن نروۯ برگشٺم در پانلى جالب با ديا خان شركٺ كردم در مورد ضديٺ با ۯن به اسم […]
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Human rights law or religion?

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 10, 2015
  • 1 Comments
  • human rights law, Islam, Islamism, religion
Watch today’s BBC Big Questions on whether human rights laws have achieved more than religion for humankind with Peter Tatchell, myself and others. Difficult question to answer given all the “wonderfulness” that is religion…
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Atheist or rapist?

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 4, 2011
  • 12 Comments
  • atheism, religion
A study published online in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology revealed that religious believers distrust atheists more than any other religious groups, gays and feminists (and you know how much they hate them). The only other group they distrust as much are rapists!!? Atheists on the other hand were indifferent to people’s religious […]
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Poor Christians – No relief from the ‘gaystapos’

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 26, 2011
  • 5 Comments
  • christianity, gay, religion
In a Church of England (COE) newspaper, leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance party Alan Craig uses a series of Nazi metaphors describing gay rights activists as the ‘gaystapo’ crushing people ‘under the pink jackboot’.
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And you thought only Islam was anti-woman

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 26, 2011
  • 4 Comments
  • Islam, Judaism, religion, women
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups find the female image ‘offensive’ and women’s voices seductive so they ban both. In recent months, women’s faces have disappeared from billboards across the city due to defacement of posters with women on them.
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Forget breasts, cover those tempting eyes!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 19, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Islam, religion, Saudi, veil, women
The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (yes, it’s really their name), can order women with ‘tempting’ eyes to cover them up.
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