Read full piece in The Freethinker: Feminism and religion are incompatible, 19 November 2024
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism is…
In Solidarity with Ahoo Daryaei
در همبستگی با آهو دریایی
8 Nov, 3:30-4:30pm
Piccadilly Circus, London
On 2 November, a female student from Tehran's Science and Research University (apparently called Ahoo Daryaei) removed her clothes on campus…
The announcement of the world’s first Sikh ‘Court’ in London in April 2024 – and due to open for business on 1 June 2024 – demands our urgent attention.
For many years, some of…
Islamic charity trustee compares women without hijabs to ‘unwrapped sweets, Telegraph, 12 May 2024
A NEWLY registered Islamic charity has compared women who do not cover their heads to “unwrapped sweets”, in comments condemned…
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World Hijab Day, uno strumento di repressione può diventare simbolo di orgoglio? Sky Italy, 1 February 2024
World Hijab Day activists can promote the hijab all they want, especially when living safely in secular…
Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman's Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023
W hen Mahsa Amini was dragged off last year to undergo “re-education” for “improper” veiling, it was business as usual for Iran’s Islamic morality…
UPDATE: Finally, some justice that 29 UN member states voted to oust #Islamic regime of #Iran from @UN_CSW . Sided with women rather than misogynist regime. But which…
‘This is a woman’s revolution in the making’: how the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran sparked worldwide protest, Metro, 27 September 2022
It was meant to have been a simple trip for Mahsa Amini.…
‘The best way to combat bad speech is with good speech’ – interview with Maryam Namazie, The Freethinker, 12 March 2022
Maryam Namazie is the founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and a founding member…
Young Muslim woman raped and her children kidnapped by violent husband after trying to obtain divorce through 'sharia courts', Carmon Report, 30 January 2022
A YOUNG British-Pakistani woman was raped by her husband and…
Women Against Taliban, Frauen gegen Taliban, Hpd, 25 August 2021
With the takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan, people around the world are fearing that the Taliban’s first victims will be millions of women.
Only…