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The Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar is coming along beautifully. It will be published here on 8 March, International Women’s Day. If you are submitting a photo, it has to be in no later than tomorrow morning. This is your last chance to submit one. By the way, thanks to all those who have submitted photos [...]
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February 29th, 2012 
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The 99% movement is different
February 29th, 2012 Maryam Namazie Here’s a brief commentary from Hamid Taqvaee on the 99% movement: Taqvaee is the WPI leader. He was speaking with some English speaking participants during a break at the WPI’s Eighth Congress. (Via Reza Moradi)
Morbid terms of endearment
February 29th, 2012 Maryam Namazie I usually speak to my 6 year old in English but I noticed that when I want to tell him how much I love him, I say it in Persian. Here are some of the things I say at least 50 times a day: ‘Ghorbanat beram’ – I’ll sacrifice myself for you ‘Bemeeram basat’ – [...]
The world pledge of the 99%
February 28th, 2012 Maryam Namazie As I mentioned earlier, I just returned from the Eighth Congress of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. Here’s one of the documents that was adopted there – the world pledge of the 99% and what a good pledge it is! Here it is: The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and then the revolutionary risings against [...]
A debate with ‘Human Rights’ Watch
February 27th, 2012 Maryam Namazie 
If you recall, a while back, I and a number of other campaigners and rights organisations wrote an open letter to ‘Human Rights’ Watch Director Kenneth Roth criticising his apologetic stance towards Islamism. The letter was recently published in the New York Review of Books Blog along with a response from the organisation. It’s basically [...]
I’m back
February 27th, 2012 Maryam Namazie 
I’m back from the 8th congress of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. It was a brilliant congress, which focused on the new situation globally to people’s advantage – what with the revolutions in the Mideast and North Africa and the occupation movement in the West – and the tasks that lie ahead. I’ll report back [...]
What I’m doing this month
February 23rd, 2012 Maryam Namazie I am away from tomorrow until Sunday as I am going to the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s congress. I won’t be blogging for that period as we won’t have personal access to phones and the internet. Try not to miss me too much. Other things I am doing this month are: 3 March 2012, 10.00am [...]
Now you know why women are worth half of men
February 23rd, 2012 Maryam Namazie Man asks Mullah: Why do you consider women only half that of men? Mullah: Because we are only concerned with her bottom half; the top half is useless to us. So now you know. (Via Afshin Azizian on Facebook)
Now Iran’s a state ‘contemplating’ terrorism?
February 23rd, 2012 Maryam Namazie UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned about Iran’s ‘increasing willingness to contemplate’ terrorism around the world. He cited an attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US, plus alleged involvement in recent attacks in New Delhi, Georgia and Bangkok. Increasing willingness to contemplate – is that what they call it nowadays? What about [...]
We have more in common as people than with governments of Iran and USA
February 21st, 2012 Maryam Namazie Persepolis author, Marjane Satrapi, says: The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between [...]
They will never learn
February 21st, 2012 Maryam Namazie Multi-culturalism – not as a positive lived experience – but as a social policy is a politics of division. I agree. It divides people into cultures and puts cultures (the most regressive aspects) before citizens. But in response, Minister Eric Pickles says a return of Christianity in Britain’s public life will bring about the community [...]
Prayers at council meeting is less messy than looking at sheep entrails
February 21st, 2012 Maryam Namazie The excellent National Secular Society has won a legal challenge to prayers during local government council meetings. Nonetheless, the government is activating powers it says will allow councils to hold prayers. Well I suppose you can’t blame them for hoping that prayer will succeed where they have failed. But seriously, the NSS is not saying [...]
And your point is?
February 21st, 2012 Maryam Namazie The Telegraph (which must give away a free bottle of water that costs more than the paper with every issue) has a piece on the ‘slave roots’ of Richard Dawkins. This ‘awkward revelation’ is yet another fine piece of journalism. I suppose since my grandfather led Friday prayers and was an ‘Islamic scholar’, I have an [...]
In case you don’t know the worth of women’s lives and men’s testicles
February 20th, 2012 Maryam Namazie Just in case you didn’t know how much you were worth under Islamic Diyeh or blood money (paid to the victim or victim’s family), here’s a reminder: Article 300: The blood money for first or second degree murder of a Muslim woman is 50 camels. Article 435: The blood money for a Muslim man losing [...]
In defence of militant secularisation
February 19th, 2012 Maryam Namazie In a recent speech the Tory Party Chairperson Lady Warsi said: ‘My fear is that, today, militant secularisation is taking hold of our societies. We see it in a number of things: when signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings, and where religion is sidelined and downgraded in the public sphere. [...]
Richard Dawkins
February 19th, 2012 Maryam Namazie Here’s Dawkins speech at the 11 February free expression rally. Best lines: A scholar usually needs to have read more than one book, people need to ‘stop being so damn respectful’ and that without freedom of speech, society would be a ‘scientific, technological, moral dark age’. By the way, here’s Richard Dawkins’ comment on the [...]
Books on atheism and Islam
February 19th, 2012 Maryam Namazie I just received a request for a list of books on atheism and also atheism and Islam. Can anyone help with putting together a list, which I can send on? Thanks for any help on this. Here’s the email: Hello. I am interested in getting a thorough education about atheistic and agnostic thought. My interest [...]
The Saudi government will be held accountable for Hamza Kashgari’s life and security
February 19th, 2012 Maryam Namazie 
We demand immediate freedom for Hamza Kashgari! Open letter to the Saudi Embassy in London-UK To Whom It May Concern: We are outraged to learn that 23 year old writer Hamza Kashgari is in prison after being deported to Saudi Arabia from Malaysia where he had fled in fear of his life. The deportation of [...]
We are here for Hamza Kashgari, Alex Aan and others like them
February 18th, 2012 Maryam Namazie Here is my speech at the 11 February free expression rally. We were there for the likes of Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari, Indonesian atheist Alex Aan and others whose lives are intertwined with ours, even if we do not realise it:
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