Author: Maryam Namazie
“Glastonbury of Freethinkers”: conference on freedom of conscience and expression
Posted: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 by Maryam Namazie
Saturday 22 – Monday 24 July will see activists from around the world gather for a weekend of discussions and debates on freedom of conscience and expression in the 21st century. Maryam Namazie tells us why it is such an important event.
Atheists and... Read More »
Channel 4’s call to prayer during Ramadan is more of the same old, same old
Posted: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 by Maryam Namazie
Channel 4 is airing the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan every morning and also broadcasting a series of programmes about Ramadan. It says it is doing so as a deliberate act of "provocation" to challenge viewers who associate Islam with terrorism and extremism.... Read More »
Multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism
Posted: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 by Maryam Namazie
The Pro-Islamist Left relies on multiculturalism (not as a positive lived experience but as a social policy and political point of view) to deny the existence of dissent by pigeonholing innumerable individuals with innumerable characteristics into one imagined... Read More »