Tag: Threats
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Iran’s tentacles around Britain: Kidnap fears, murder plots and rape threats
BIG READ Iranian dissidents in the UK reveal their fears of being targeted and why they want the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps proscribed as a terrorist group Rob Hastings Rob is Special Projects Editor at i. He won the Legal Reporting Award in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Washington Post’s Laurence Stern Fellowship…
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Exposure: Islam’s Non-Believers
Islam’s Non Believers, a new film by the award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan, will be aired on 13 October 2016 on ITV Exposure at 10:40-11:40pm London time. The film is the first in depth documentary following the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and investigating the lives of young women and men in Britain who face threats,…
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MARYAM NAMAZIE: Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly ‘offensive’ stance on Islam
Original published in Daily Mail on 9 January 2016 This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people…
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Goldsmiths ISOC fails to intimidate and silence dissenters
I spoke on 30 November 2015 at Goldsmiths University at the invitation of the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society (ASH). The night before my talk, the ASH president received an email from the president of Goldsmiths Islamic Society (ISOC) saying the following: As an Islamic society, we feel extremely uncomfortable by the fact that you…
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Just some more Islamist threats – but it won’t stop us
It seems be an Islamist, you must not only have a thing for murder but you have to be downright stupid as well. Here’s an email circulated amongst the “brothers” on 10 October Friday before the 11-12 October conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights in London trying to mobilise their herds to stop our event…