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PRESS RELEASE: Campaigners urge government to fully and impartially investigate Sharia bodies

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 4, 2016
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Sharia, women's rights

4 July 2016 Today, an unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and internationally have submitted a letter to the Home Secretary raising serious concerns about the government’s ‘independent review’ into Sharia courts in Britain. The letter states that the limited scope of inquiry and its inappropriate theological approach will do nothing to […]

We too yearn for freedom

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On September 6, 2013
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Islamism, Secularism, women's rights

The outrage over the attempted assassination of 15 year old Malala Yousefzai shot by the Taliban for defending girls’ education; the mass protests against Islamists for the assassination of Socialist leader Chokri Belaid and Amina Tyler’s topless activism in Tunisia where she wrote “My body is not the source of your honour” and “fuck your […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 8, 2013
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Islam, Islamism, Secularism, women's rights

Here is my speech on Secularism as a right and historical task at Atheist Ireland’s Empowering Women through Secularism in Dublin: “The rest of us must live under sharia law – even in Europe – and be grateful for the veil as a ‘right’ and ‘choice’. We are only allowed freedom and rights within the […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 26, 2013
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Freedom, Islamism, Secularism, women's rights

Below is my speech at the May 2013 Women in Secularism conference in Washington DC. Participants joined in an action to defend Amina Tyler, Imad Iddine Habib, Bangladesh’s bloggers and Alex Aan (photo on left). * The outrage over the attempted assassination of 15 year old Malala Yousefzai shot by the Taliban for defending […]

PRESS RELEASE: Campaigners urge government to fully and impartially investigate Sharia bodies

We too yearn for freedom

Rights within Islamic context? Thanks but no thanks

Secularism is my right; freedom is my culture