Tariq Ramadan | Maryam Namazie

I am still Charlie

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On March 1, 2016
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Charlie Hebdo, Tariq Ramadan

I was Charlie 6 years ago; today Je Suis Charlie and I will always be Charlie.

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On March 1, 2016
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Charlie Hebdo, Islamophobia, Tariq Ramadan

My opening remarks at Oxford Union debate with Tariq Ramadan on 29 February 2016 Criticism of religion – however offensive – is not racism against believers. Islamophobia is in fact used to conflate blasphemy with bigotry in order to impose Islamist norms on the wider society. Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Mohammad are no more “bigotry” […]

I am still Charlie

Charlie Hebdo’s Mohammed cartoon was not Islamophobic