Maryam Namazie

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Maryam Namazie (2007)
Namazie opens the 2014 Secular Conference in London

Maryam Namazie (* 1966 in Tehran , Iran ) is a civil rights activist . She is active against the Islamist dictatorial regime in Iran and against Islamism worldwide, including as spokeswoman for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain , the British version of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims .

Namazie comes from Iran , but had to leave the country in 1980 because of the Islamic Revolution . She is the founder of the Iran Solidarity Association and an elected board member of the Workers' Communist Party of Iran . The women's rights activist is the spokesperson for Equal Rights Now - Organization against Women's Discrimination in Iran and the International Committee against Stoning.

In the course of the debate about Mohammed caricatures and freedom of the press , she stepped up her engagement against political Islam. She was voted Secularist of the Year in 2005 by the British National Secular Society . In 2006, in response to the controversy over the Mohammed caricatures , she signed the Manifesto of the 12 , which was published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo .

Namazie emphasizes the importance of the One Law For All, the legal uniformity related to the individual, and warns against a religiously based special law that disadvantages atheists or women, for example in family law.

Honors

  • 2016: International Secularism Prize , awarded by the Comité Laïcité République , Paris, November 2nd online (optionally also in French)
  • 2007 One of the Top 45 Women of the Year , voted by Elle magazine Quebec

Publications

  • With Nuala Mahmoud, Atoosa Khatiri: Political and legal status of apostates in Islam. Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain CEMB, London 2013, ISBN 0992603803 (80 pages).
  • With 7 other authors: The struggle for secularism in Europe and North America: Women from migrant descent facing the rise of fundamentalism. Dossier 30/31. Women living under muslim laws WLUML, London 2011, ISBN 1907024220 .
  • With Yassi Atasheen, Anna Waters: Sharia law in Britain. A threat to one law for all and equal rights. One law for all, London 2010 ISBN 0956605400
  • Minorities are not homogeneous communities. Interview with Julia Hoffmann, in jungle world , 50, December 15, 2016, p. 17 (print: with photo Namazies) (text without photo available online, see links below)
  • Afterword The politics of betrayal , to John Miller: Siding with the oppressor. The pro-Islamist left. One law for all, London 2015, p. 57ff. on-line
  • with Adam Barnett: Enemies, not allies: the far-right. One law for all, London 2011 ISBN 9780956605436 online

Web links

Individual references, sources

  1. ^ Enorme druk op liberale moslims (Dutch) , de Volkskrant . July 27, 2007. Retrieved December 4, 2013. 
  2. ↑ One woman's war, Maryam Namazie personifies the gulf between liberal apologists and those who really want equality . In: Observer of October 16, 2005, accessed October 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Maryam Namazie Profil , The Guardian , accessed Oct. 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Namazie, Maryam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran