Chairperson of The National Transitional Council of Libya, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, in a celebration of the “liberation of Libya”, held on October 23rd, said Libya would take Sharia law as its basic source of legislation. Laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified and restrictions on the number of wives Libyan men could [...]

5 November 2011 International Day of Solidarity with Iranian Workers Join us on this day of action Currently in prison: Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, sentenced to 6 years in prison Reza Shahabi in prison since June 2010 Ebrahim Madadi, in prison since December 2008, sentenced to a 3.5 year prison Rasoul Bodaghi sentenced to 6 years in [...]

Statement For Immediate Release 27 October 2011 76 secularists and human rights campaigners, including Mina Ahadi, Nawal El Sadaawi, Marieme Helie Lucas, Hameeda Hussein, Ayesha Imam, Maryam Jamil, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasrin, Farida Shaheed, Fatou Sow, and Stasa Zajovic have signed on to a Manifesto for a Free and Secular Middle East and North Africa. [...]

See my interview on this week’s TV International with Hamid Taqvaee on the ‘Arab Spring’:

Finally, the British Humanist Association has made available video footage of the panel discussion on Islam in a Secular Europe, which you can see for yourselves below. If you recall, I blogged about it earlier saying give me an Islamist any day – at least they are more honest! Now you can see for yourselves [...]

Passion for Freedom: Breaking the last taboo The recent murders of Syrian poet and song writer Ibrahim Qashoush and Iraqi playwright and filmmaker Hadi al-Mahdi, as well as the sentence of one year in jail and 90 lashes to actress Marzieh Vafamehr, and the six-year jail sentence and 20-year filmmaking and travel ban against international [...]

I’ve started my TV programmes again – yaay. They will be broadcast weekly on Thursday via New Channel TV. In this week’s programme, I speak to the brilliant Hamid Taqvaee on the 99% movement, on the economic system, parliamentary democracy and socialism. If you have any comments, post them here or email me so I [...]

See a wonderful protest of Tunisian for secularism and free speech against the Islamist attempts to silence free speech by attacking the broadcast of the film Persepolis via a TV station:

Revolution against Capitalism is Raging! The revolution that erupted in North Africa and the Middle East have inspired millions in Europe; In Greece, Italy, Spain, England, France, and in North America; New York, Portland, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, and in Australia in Sydney and in Auckland, New Zealand, and in Tokyo, Japan, and in many [...]

Over 400,000 people have signed the petition to save the NHS. This Thursday, 38 Degrees will meet with key Lib Dem members of the House of Lords. They’ll be taking their independent legal experts to discuss the alarming impact the government’s plans could have on the NHS and want to hand in a copy of [...]

18 October 2011 Lymington, UK Maryam Namazie will be speaking on Sharia Law and Women’s Rights at a meeting organised by Amnesty International New Forest Group, Lymington Community Centre at 7.30pm.

Below is the text of my speech at the 17 September 2011 rally for a secular Europe in London. You can see video footage of the speech here. Secularism is an important demand. Secularism is the strict separation of religion from the state. There aren’t 20 definitions of secularism. I know religious groups and their [...]

Iran Solidarity has a stall at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair from 12 – 16 of October! After Brazil, we are continuing with our Iran Solidarity Tour, this time in Frankfurt, Germany – raising awareness of the situation of people in Iran and protesting the fact that the Islamic regime of Iran will be present [...]

Press Release 11 October 2011 On Saturday 15 October 2011 a National Conference to Celebrate Diversity and Multiculturalism is being jointly held in London by One Society Many Cultures and Unite Against Fascism. The conference describes its aims as opposing Islamophobia and racism. One Law for All condemns racism and hatred unequivocally, and rejects the [...]

Listen to Hamid Taqvaee’s brief message in Persian to mark the International Day against the Death Penalty. He says: Capital punishment is the state’s act of pre-medidated murder. They call it justice but it has nothing to do with jutice. The aim of capital publishement is to assert control and instill fear in the population [...]

I received this email today from Peter Flack: As a supporter of One Law for all – a colleague and I attended the first demonstration and Maryam attended our union branch in Leicester – I was concerned at a picture circulating on Facebook showing what are clearly EDL supporters standing with One Law for All [...]

One Law for All presents its 2011 Passion for Freedom Art Festival showcasing a shortlist of international artists discussing religion, equality and one secular law for all through painting, drawing, sculpture, film and installation. Exhibited artists are Sandra Ackermann, Karin Roy Andersson, Eskild Beck, Milena Buljan, Victoria Burgher, Edna Cantoral Acosta, Magdalena Czubak Vlasak, Fiona [...]

To see the Persian translation of my speech at the 17 September 2011 rally for Secularism in London, click here.

See today’s article in the Australian ‘Local Islamists draw on British success in bid for sharia law’ here.