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I met Maryam Namazie at the Celebrating Dissent festival in Amsterdam recently. As co-organiser of this unique gathering, it soon became clear that Maryam was seen by many of the participants as something of a mentor, even a mother figure. A veteran campaigner for human, especially women’s (...)
Whenever there is a campaign upholding freedom of religion in a Western country, or each time there is a bill that aims to promote or defend religious liberty, I start trembling. Is it really necessary to champion freedom of religion in those countries where such freedom is already guaranteed? (...)
The Atlantic has a powerful story about Lubna Yaseen , an Iraqi woman who faced death threats for expressing her atheist beliefs in her native Iraq (she was literally threatened by Al Qaeda militants for not wearing a hijab). But Secular Rescue , a project of the Center for Inquiry, got her out (...)
The International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression , the largest gathering of ex-Muslims in history, was held during 22-24 July 2017 in London.
Over 70 notable speakers from 30 countries or the Diaspora gathered in what was dubbed “The Glastonbury of Freethinkers” and “a (...)
IN a recent address, Chaudhry Nisar hit out at political opponents by classifying them as ‘secular’ and equating the term with ‘non-believing’. Clearly, the interior minister needs tuition in history and political philosophy.
There is no simple thing, place or peoples called the ‘secular’, the (...)
The following interview was conducted by Stefano Bigliardi for the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics in Italy. It was first published in Italian.
Kacem El Ghazzali (b. 1990) is a Moroccan writer, blogger, and activist currently living in Zurich. He obtained political asylum in (...)
Self-presentation of the CEMB taken from its website, October 14, 2016. Manifesto
Manifesto of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
We, non-believers, atheists, and ex-Muslims, are establishing or joining the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain to insist that no one be pigeonholed as Muslims (...)
Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born secularist and human rights activist, commentator and broadcaster. She is spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Scott Douglas Jacobsen – How did you get involved in activism?
Maryam Namazie – I became an (...)
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Secularism and the colonial legacy – How it impacts on women’s universal rights and on democracy
Why Secularism is a women’s issue - Secularism vs religious laws - Citizenship vs communalism – Sharia courts vs women’s rights
Content: Definition(s) The struggle for (...)
Of course, banning women from wearing what they want is illegal in France. The establishment claim they want Muslim women to achieve independence yet are depriving them the means to do so.
While the burkini debate has stoked considerable coverage and discussion abroad, the debate is nothing (...)
The nation has still not found a way to ensure its Muslim population are equal citizens of the republic.I can’t remember a time in recent history when France has appeared so isolated on an international level because of its own political choices. The criticism that has been levelled at France (...)
Writer-in-exile Taslima Nasreen calls for reining in religious fundamentalism, saying that criticism of religion is not the domain of non-Muslim intellectuals alone.
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticising Islam, and has been living (...)
While many of us watch in horror as ISIS advances, and fundamentalist ideas spread across religious traditions around the world, Maryam Namazie and Marieme Hélie-Lucas - secular feminists from Iran and Algeria - told Karima Bennoune why they are convening the International Secular Conference in (...)
In 1989 women of many faiths and none formed a collective in London to work at the interface of feminism and anti-racism, in struggles against both religious fundamentalism and the excesses of neo-liberalism. They told Deniz Kandiyoti the story of Women against Fundamentalism.
Women Against (...)
Conference On the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights
Historic International Conference On the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights
11-12 October 2014
The Tower Hotel, St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LD, UK
REGISTER TODAY AT www.secularconference.com
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The authorities of universities in the UK made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The battle that is being waged now in the UK concerns us all : attempts by fundamentalist forces to undermine secularism and to destroy (...)
One of the goals in a new report on women and Arab Spring by CARE International is to build bridges between religious and secular women . Gita Sahgal says this fails to address the real problem: the rise of fundamentalism and the lack of clarity on the need for a secular state.
In discussions (...)
The below is a guest post from the brilliant Algerian secularist, Marieme Helie Lucas, to mark Day of Agreement. It is a must read.
Maryam Namazie In the past few weeks, in several countries, groups of citizens have openly taken a stand against Muslim fundamentalists, including armed ones.
In (...)
This month of bloody riots against blasphemy in the Muslim world is scheduled to end just as it began: with a provocation. Today, a scattering of atheists and freethinkers will celebrate something called International Blasphemy Rights Day, a coordinated recognition of the freedom to slander any (...)
Muslims should ‘simply ignore the crazy provocations,’ Gilbert Achcar says. He thinks that those who engaged in violent protests against the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video did exactly what the video’s production team were hoping for as a result of their provocation.
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon (...)
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