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On Meeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners with Law Society

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 15, 2015
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  • Law Society, sharia law
On Tuesday 13th January, women’s rights groups, including Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All, Nari Diganta and the Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), met with Mark Stobbs, the Law Society’s Director of Legal Policy at the SBS office. Our organisations welcomed the Law Society’s decision to withdraw its guidance on ‘Sharia’ compliant […]
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The Problem with Sharia

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 12, 2014
  • 4 Comments
  • Bread and Roses, sharia law
Here’s Bread and Roses second TV programme in English on Sharia Law with Fariborz Pooya, Bahram Soroush and myself. We have already bought good microphones (on credit card) so the sound quality is a lot better than the one before on nude protest. Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters is interviewed here on the issue […]
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Sharia law is madness

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 27, 2014
  • 8 Comments
  • Algeria, Fitnah, Iran, Law Society, sharia law
The below is Maryam Namazie’s editorial published in the April 2014 issue of Unveiled: A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation. Sharia law is highly contested and vehemently opposed in many places across the globe. In Algeria, women’s rights activists singing for change label 20 years of Sharia in the family code as 20 years of […]
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Sharia Law: Extremism the Government Ignores

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 15, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • sharia law, UK
In her latest Huffington Post article, One Law for All Spokesperson Anne Marie Waters concludes: One Law for All has repeatedly asked the government why it allows sharia councils, with their blatant disregard for human rights and democracy, to yield power in such important areas as family and criminal law; the government response? It doesn’t […]
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The absurdity of debating Sharia law

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 8, 2011
  • 32 Comments
  • sharia law
I find it absurd that tonight – and for the umpteenth time – I must argue that Sharia law negates human rights at a ‘debate’. It reminds me of my ‘debates’ with campaigners at a women’s rights meeting more than 20 years ago. They kept excusing FGM as a cultural matter that needed to be […]
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