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Yes I am a whore

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On June 30, 2013
  • 25 Comments
  • Taslima Nasrin, whore, women
Throughout the ages, dissenting women have always been called whores. I know I have many times. My response? “Yes, yes, I am a whore…” Read below Taslima Nasrin’s poem called “You go Girl”, which she read out during her speech at Atheist Ireland’s Dublin conference “Empowering Women Through Secularism” (and which by the way made […]
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Hands off our freethinkers!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 16, 2013
  • 4 Comments
  • Bangaldeshi Bloggers, Taslima Nasrin
Celebrated Turkish pianist and atheist Fazil Say has been given a 10-month suspended sentence for Twitter comments “insulting Islam”. He will face imprisonment if he “re-offends” and has shut down his Twitter account. His Tweets included a verse from a poem by Omar Khayyám in which the 11th-century Persian poet attacks pious hypocrisy: “You say […]
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We are not free until all women are free

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 10, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • IWD, Taslima Nasrin
I’m back from Germany. The International Women’s Day event in Frankfurt was wonderful! Here are some photos of the event. You can find my speech here. Videos of the speeches will follow. Unfortunately Taslima Nasrin and Nawal El-Sadaawi couldn’t make it. Below are their messages to the conference: Dear friends! My Iranian sisters. You are so […]
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Taslima and the Burqa

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 8, 2012
  • 16 Comments
  • Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin has joined us on Freethoughtblogs! Can things get any better? If you haven’t visited her blog yet, please do. Her post today is called ‘Let’s Burn the Burqa’. Oh, yes please. And while we are at it can we ban it too? Oh and before the post-modernist left and defenders of multi-culturalism and religion […]
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