Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

Tag: terrorism

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

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

    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…

  • Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal

    This month’s piece in The Freethinker. Since 1 June – that’s one week – there have been 25 terrorist attacks, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia and the UK. The latest took place today in Iran. Islamists want their terrorism to become the new normal. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, women sex slaves…

  • What happens to iERA T-Shirts in my hands

    The iERA has sent the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) two T-shirts. You know, the yellow ones which their dawah teams wear on the streets of Britain to hate-preach misogyny and death to apostates, gays, Jews, unveiled women, Muslims who don’t agree with them…. They have sent the T-shirts to prove that anyone can wear them.…

  • Terrorism and the burka

    I don’t need to tell you what has happened in the past few days. In Nairobi, Islamists have attacked innocent civilians out for a day shopping. They said they were there to kill non-Muslims “only” but of course as is always the case, they killed anyone and everyone they could, including Muslims. In Nigeria, Boko…