See my interview on the veil in the Scotland Herald here. Whilst attacks on veiled women intolerable, the veil remains a tool for repression. Socially speaking it is never a choice for a vast majority of women. Islamists don’t understand choice; they give none when in power.

Open Letter to the Swedish Migration Office Mohammad Mehdi Maleki, Iranian asylum-seeker, born on 28 January 1985, case no. 10-983677 Maleki has been a student political activist against the Islamic Republic. Mohammad Mehdi Maleki is among the activists who, using the internet and in various other ways has struggled against the regime in Iran until …

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I will be away until 3 May so will most likely not be making many entries on my blog. See you when I get back.

To mark and celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day, a one day conference was held on 12 March 2011 to discuss the impact of religion on the lives of women. The conference was organised by One Law for All and the International Committee against Stoning, Iran Solidarity, and Equal Rights Now. The day started …

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I’ll be speaking at an event organised by the Atheist and Humanist Society at the University of Bradford about the perverse influence of religion and in defence of secularism on Monday 4 April 2011 at 5pm.