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Identity politics and the art of deception

Identity politics and the art of deception

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 28, 2017
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  • freedom of expression, universities
One of the things that is most troubling about identity politics and multiculturalism as a social policy is how deception becomes a necessity in defending the “tribe” or “community”, irrespective of the truth. Of course you don’t need to be an Islamist or on the far-Right to do this – something Sam Harris fans fail […]
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 More restrictions at universities and words of warning

More restrictions at universities and words of warning

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 21, 2017
  • 9 Comments
  • freedom of expression, Islam, universities
According to a recent report, more than nine in 10 UK universities are restrictive of free speech. This doesn’t surprise me at all. I continue to face restrictions of varying degrees, though this is changing due to the widespread push-back in defence of free expression. Nowadays, I find that universities don’t bar me outright as […]
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 Maryam Namazie and Peter Tatchell honoured for defence of free speech on campuses

Maryam Namazie and Peter Tatchell honoured for defence of free speech on campuses

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 19, 2016
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  • free expression, universities
On 19 March, the National Secular Society held its annual Secularist of the Year award ceremony. The winner this year was Educate Together which promotes secular education. At the ceremony, two previous winners of the NSS Secularist of the Year award, Maryam Namazie and Peter Tatchell, were honoured for their recent campaigning to defend free […]
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MARYAM NAMAZIE: Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly ‘offensive’ stance on Islam

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 12, 2016
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  • Charlie Hebdo, Free speech, Goldsmiths, Islam, Islamism, Safe Spaces, universities
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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Equality and Human Rights Commission rules that gender segregation is unlawful

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 23, 2014
  • 1 Comments
  • gender segregation, universities, UUK
Press Release 23 July 2014 One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, the Centre for Secular Space, and the LSESU Atheist Secularist Society have welcomed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) ruling against gender segregation in universities and students’ unions. On 17 July, the EHRC published its guidance on gender segregation, stating that: “Gender […]
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To UN: UK Public institutions continue to fail to uphold an environment free of discrimination

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 14, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • Equality, gender segregation, UK, universities, UUK
14 January 2014 Ms. Farida Shaheed Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Dear Ms. Shaheed, We write to draw your attention to the increasing incidence of gender segregation on public university campuses in the United Kingdom, and to seek your intervention […]
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Campaign against gender segregation will persist

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 29, 2013
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  • gender segregation, universities, UUK
Dear friend Thank you so much for all your support during 2013, particularly for our most recent campaign against gender segregation at universities in the UK, which we organised in conjunction with Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation, Southall Black Sisters, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and LSE Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society. Nearly 9,500 […]
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