Maryam Namazie مریم نمازی
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Iranian-born writer & campaigner. Called 'immoral, corrupt & a harlot’ by Islamic regime of Iran; ‘distressing & objectionable’ by @TedX . #WomanLifeFreedom
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I will be speaking at
@NatSecSoc
conference on 19 October in London on: Confronting Identity Politics, A Breeding Ground for Division and Dehumanisation
More info on event:
I will be speaking at
@NatSecSoc
conference on 19 October in London on: Confronting Identity Politics, A Breeding Ground for Division and Dehumanisation
More info on event:
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Iran regime will no longer arrest "bad-hijabi" women because there are too many women to arrest. Unveiling and refusing to submit to misogynist rules bringing regime to its knees. Long live women's liberation movement in Iran.
Police in Iran's capital say they will no longer arrest women for failing to observe the Islamic dress code imposed since the 1979 revolution.
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After liberation, a female peshmarga destroys ISIS signboard ordering women to cover themselves with a niqab.
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One of the iconic photos of yesterday's protest was a young woman with her compulsory hejab on a stick...
What a wondrous site. Viva the protesting people of Iran. Long Live!
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#I_Support_People_of_Iran
No more Islamic regime
Secularism Now
Women's Liberation Now
#IranProtests
نه به حكومت اسلامى
سكولاريسم الان
رهايى زن همين الان
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@NazShahBfd
Neither statues nor your prophet or anyone else’s need protection. Human rights do. Imprisoning people for 10 years for defacing a statue or executing people for blasphemy or apostasy as in Islamic states is the real harm, not free expression & your fragile sensibilities.
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Luke Perry: can you make sculptures ‘celebrating’ FGM, chastity belt, foot binding, breast ironing, suttee too? Must be nice for a man to celebrate male control on women’s bodies, esp at time when women & girls being killed for
#hijab
in
#Iran
#Afghanistan
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Today in solidarity with women who defy compulsory hijab rules in Iran and elsewhere.
@RehmanYasmin
and I at
#WomensLib2020
#NoToCompulsoryHijab
#NoHijabDay
#FreeFromHijab
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URGENT ACTION: Tanzanian government must drop all the politically-motivated charges against
@zarakayk
immediately and unconditionally
#JusticeForZara
#ReleaseZara
#FreeZaraKay
@MagufuliJP
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در دفاع از نیلوفر فولادی و اعتراض عریان بعنوان یک اعترض سیاسی
#ایران
#مهسا_امینی
#انقلاب_زنانه
#اعتصابات_سراسری
#زن_زندگی_آزادی
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When speaking for Zahra & Elham facing execution for their
#LGBT
activism, a group started shouting Allah o Akbar because they were offended by
#AllahIsAWoman
. Not offended by 2 women being executed in Iran but by a sign.
#savezahrasedighihamedani
#saveelham
#loveisnotacrime
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The Islamist rent-a-mob that converge on schools to feign insult when the real insult is mob rule at school gates and threatening teachers. The point of a cartoon is satire. When you must apologise for satire to those who threaten loudest, things are upside down.
A teacher has been suspended for showing his class a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
Gary Kibble, the headmaster offered his “sincere and full apology”, adding that the picture was “completely inappropriate.”
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Cartoons are an excuse. If you think killings will stop if you stop drawing cartoons, you cannot see innumerable in prisons & on death row in Iran, Asia, Mid East, N. Africa for “provoking” Islamic fascists by living 21 century lives
#JeSuisSamuel
#JesuisSamuelPaty
#JeSuisCharlie
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We must target Islamism - not just jihadis - if we are to win this battle against fascism of our era.
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Islam is a belief that can and should be open to criticism. It is sacred to you and misogyny to me. How can one criticise an Islamic state and the veil and not Islam. Lots of people in Iran atheists and anti-Islam. Get used to a little thing called freedom of expression.
2/ Dangerously framing this as assault on Islam would alienate millions of Iranian Muslims in Iran & around the world. This is KEY right now because the Iranian gov is also trying to polarize the mvmt to divide protestors & allies (that are LED BY MUSLIM and non-Muslim women)
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@cjwerleman
Actually apostates and rights activists are the resistance, the Islamists are the Nazis and you are what uses to be called a collaborator.
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Offence is an excuse.
#Islamists
kill to maintain power through sheer terror, decapitation and murder.
They need no excuses to murder.
See
#Iran
, Middle East, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh... for examples aplenty.
#FranceBeheading
#franceattack
#NiceTerrorAttack
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Sorry Goldmiths Student Union we can't take down video of my talk
It's in the public interest.
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#HandsUpForApostasyDay
22 August,
#ApostasyDay
Apostasy not a crime; murdering, shunning, threatening, torturing, imprisoning humans for non-belief is.
ارتداد جرم نیست؛ قتل ،اعدام، طرد کردن ، تهدید ، شکنجه ، زندانی کردن انسانها برای خداناباوری جرم واقعی است.
#مرتد #روز_ارتداد
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The focus on limits to free speech when a teacher has been decapitated is like focusing on a woman's skirt when she has been raped. One does not cause the other...
The problem is murder not speech.
#JeSuisSamuel
#JesuisSamuelPaty
#JeSuisCharlie
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#ExMuslimBecause
I have lived in an Islamic state in Iran. Nothing could be worse
@CEMB_forum
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In a week, 13,000 have watched
#WomenLeavingIslam
since it premiered on 1 Feb as challenge to
#WorldHijabDay
.
#FromHijabToFreedom
If you haven’t seen it, please watch it & publicise.
You won’t regret it. ❤️
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Actually apostates and rights activists are the resistance, the Islamists are the Nazis and you are what is called 'a collaborator'.
"Ex-Muslims" not only adopt the same tactics as Nazis, they're also supported by Nazis and white supremacists.
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ISIS defeated and on the run in Shingal (Sinjar)
"Down oppressor man, where will you run to?"
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Today is the first
#AtheistDay
#AtheistBecause
I am woman
#AtheistBecause
Mohammad didn’t split no moon or fly on no winged horse
#AtheistBecause
I am not a source of fitnah to be veiled & hidden
#NoGodNoProphets
#AtheistDay
Why are you
#AtheistBecause
?
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Women are not extensions of the male guardian, family, ‘community’ or society. We are not property to be veiled, erased, shunned, threatened and killed in name of honour, religion, nation... We are individuals with rights, hopes and dreams.
#HappyWomensDay2020
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If a religious bigot doesn’t want to sit next to a women - maybe he can be moved or taken off the plane instead. Women are not second class citizens to be moved like pawns to appease the misogynist demands of fanatics and fundamentalists.
A woman is suing EasyJet after the airline asked her to move following objections from Orthodox Jewish men who refused to sit next to a female passenger.
#SexNotGender
#SexMatters
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This is my letter to you, not you the racist or Islamist but you who I should call friend: I Accuse
@sister_hood_mag
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Stop whatever you are doing please and raise your voice against the execution of three young men - Amir, Said and Mohammad - in Iran. Their "crime"? Enmity against a non-existent God and for being allegedly involved in the Nov/Dec protests in Iran.
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Bodypainted and getting ready to join
@LondonLGBTPride
to highlight murder of LGBT under Islamic rule.
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In 2015 Goldsmiths Islamic Society tried to cancel, threaten, disrupt my talk on apostasy. So many of us have faced death threats, harassment, shunning for non-belief. On
#ApostasyDay
, we remember those who are no longer with us and we fight for the day we can think as we choose.
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Thanks
@TEDxWarwick
for inviting me to speak on ‘creativity in protesting Islamic Fundamentalism’, not censoring my slides even after petition by Islamic Society and letting me tell my story and story of
#exMuslims
#kafirs
#freefromhijab
#harlots
#blasphemers
#apostates
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For
#AtheistDay
by
@CEMB_forum
@AtheistRepublic
& others
Our day to rage against regime in Iran, Islamism, religious rules & beliefs that kill & silence atheists. Song:
I detest your religion, loathe your faith,
From callus on your forehead [from prayer] & your hearts of stone.
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Yesterday at a feminist protest in London for Iran’s women’s revolution. Fight against
#veil
is a fight for women’s bodily autonomy. Nothing wrong or shameful with our bodies.
#WomanLifeFreedom
#MahsaAmini
#womansrevolution
#IranProtests
#OpIran
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Today is
#BlasphemyDay
. A quarter of world's countries have anti-blasphemy laws. 14 Punish it with death - all under Islamic laws.
Blasphemy is integral to freedom of conscience and expression.
#EndBlasphemyLaws
#BlasphemyNotACrime
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@DillyHussain88
I think you must be living under a rock? People’s rights trump your homophobic, misogynist, medieval beliefs. Unless you like under your caliphate, which last time we looked, Britain is not.
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22 August 2020 – First
#ApostasyDay
Take a selfie of yourself with hashtag
#HandsUpForApostasyDay
to commemorate victims of apostasy laws, demand end to criminalisation, death penalty & shunning for apostasy and affirm freedom of conscience
#روز_ارتداد
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#MahsaAmini
sparked
#womensrevolution
we have been speaking of. ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ its slogan. A new dawn in women’s liberation movement. Women taking lead, removing & burning veils, united with men against the
#Islamic
regime in
#Iran
. Viva
#IranRevolution
#OpIran
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22 Aug, 1st Intl
#ApostasyDay
#ApostasyNotACrime
Join
#ApostasyDay
to commemorate victims of apostasy laws, call to end criminalisation & death penalty in countries under Islamic laws, end shunning, & affirm freedom of conscience
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Gender Segregation is Apartheid
Separate is not equal
At Royal court today opposing gender segregation in schools
@SBSisters
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We’re going to wash the
#Islamic
regime of
#Iran
right out of our hair
#MahsaAmini
#OpIran
#WomensRevolution
#IranProtests
#مهسا_امینی
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A
#hijabday
is shameful. Should be
#NoHijabDay
#BodyRiot
London for
#WomanLifeFreedom
#1Feb
#FreeIran
#JinaAmini
#MahsaAmini
#No2Hijab
#Iran
#بدن_می_آشوبد برای #زن_زندگی_آزادی د# #روز_حجاب #نه_به_روز_حجاب #ایران
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Solidarity with you
@AlinejadMasih
& innumerable others. For 40 years, this regime has taken our loved ones hostage, threatened them, tortured them, terrorised them and us to silence resistance and dissent. Some of us never saw our families again. But the struggle continues.
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.
@instagram
had initially hidden
#ExMuslim
; now apparently “No Results Found”. Discriminating against
#Islam
’s
#atheists
& non-believers & erasing our existence only aids the
#Islamists
& furthers persecution we face.
@OversightBoard
must correct & apologise.
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At
#FiLiA
, largest feminist conference in Europe - thousands of
#women
chanting
#WomenLifeFreedom
for
#Iran
#womensrevolution
#mahsaamini
#مهسا_امینی
در فیلیا، بزرگترین کنفرانس فمنیستها در اروبا هزاران زن شعار زن، زندگی، آزادی
ژن، ژیان، آزادی در دفاع از انقلاب زنانه در #ایران
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I have been told my
@TEDxWarwick
talk on ‘creativity in protesting Islamic fundamentalism’ in Jan 2020 won’t be published by
@TEDGlobal
.
Can I ask once more the reason and also why I cannot have the talk to publish myself?
Is a response not basic manners / professionalism?
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Islamists kill with impunity and complete disregard for human life. Remember always Avijit Roy.
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Islamists behead more than 50 in Mozambique
They turned a football pitch in a village into an "execution ground", where they decapitated and chopped bodies.
From
#France
to
#Austria
to
#Afghanistan
to
#Mozambique
,
#Islamism
is a killing machine.
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Global protest movement against Islamism. Last week, Afghans came out against stoning of 19 year old Rokhshana
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Taliban have banned female bodies, faces, voices, education, dignity, humanity.
Sex apartheid is a crime against humanity, extreme violence, terrorism & misogyny.
Women in Afghanistan, Iran... can only breathe with the downfall of Islamic theocracies &
#WomanLifeFreedom
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#SaveAyazNizami
It is not crime to criticise religion. This is an important aspect of free expression and belief. It's a crime to kill.
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In 1991, I was beaten by NYPD at anti-Iraq War protest. Undercover agents threw something into parade, 18 of us were dragged over barricades fencing protesters in. One cop kicked me in face while I was on the ground; another jumped on my stomach with his knee.
#BlackLivesMatter
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On
#hijabday
#1Feb
say
#NoHijabDay
#iran
. Write hashtags on paper or on your bodies. Join global
#bodyriot
for
#womanlifefreedom
to rage against
#veiling
rules. For
#womensrevolution
come into streets & social media topless or with bras.
more info:
@MaryamNamazie
@69procentJenny
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Intl Coalition of Ex-Muslims is calling on public to contact Tanzanian embassies in countries of residence and call on government to drop all charges President John P. Magufuli, ikulu
@ikulu
.go.tz,
@MagufuliJP
#JusticeForZara
#ReleaseZara
#FreeZaraKay
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It is not a crime to criticise, mock, ridicule, renounce,, reject, dislike religion - any religion - and that includes Islam.
#AtheismNotCrime
Persecuting, imprisoning, killing critics of religion, atheists, freethinkers is the real crime.
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I'm not angry w Muslims; my family are Muslims and v supportive of me. Criticising Islam/islamism not anti-muslim
@verityns
@farzana_versey
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I shout I am
#AtheistBecause
there are too many atheists being threatened and murdered for their beliefs All over the world.
#AtheistDay
#NoGodNoProphets
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Whilst I don't agree with a lot of what
@NoraMulready
says, it is getting tiresome explaining how criticism of Islam & Islamism, the veil, Sharia courts, gender segregation... are not the same as being anti-Muslim. The conflation of criticism/anti-clericalism with racism absurd
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East London Mosque wants us to apologise for condemning their incitement to violence against us? I don't think so.
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Thousands killed & wounded by
#Islamists
this year in Mid East, Asia, Africa. What has attacks in bus, marketplace, mosque, maternity ward or school got to do with
#France
? Or do our deaths in third world not matter? Islamists are our Fascists. Why justify them & blame victims?
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#WorldHijabDay
celebrates misogyny & sexism. I will, instead, celebrate
#women
facing long-term prison, acid attacks for removing veils like in
#Iran
not
#hijab
, symbol of women's oppression.
#WomenLeavingIslam
#FromHijabToFreedom
#NoForcedHijab
#NoHijabDay
#FreeFromHijab
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Welcome to Brexit
from the brilliant
@Charlie_Hebdo_
"At least the English are masters of their own house."
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#ExMuslimBecause
Islamists need to learn that people have a right to leave Islam and criticise it - and we will teach them.
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To me, hijab is the fabric erasure of women’s bodies. It is religion’s policing of women and her sexuality with the unveiled woman always protrayed as the whore and source of chaos and fitnah.
To me, the hijab means power, liberation, beauty, and resistance.
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Neither statues nor your prophet or anyone else’s need protection. Human rights do. Imprisoning people for 10 years for defacing a statue or executing people for blasphemy or apostasy as in Islamic states is the real harm, not free expression & your fragile sensibilities.
Today the Government proposed a bill to protect the emotional harm connected with the damaging of statues.
If people can understand the emotional connections to statues, then they can understand the connection Muslims have with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
#NotJustACartoon
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#Islamic
regime of
#Iran
Morality police trying to take an unveiled
#woman
away. She refuses to go. Viva
#WomansRevolution
.
#WomanLifeFreedom
#MahsaAmini
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On way to Trafalgar square from Islamic regime embassy in London for
#mahsaamini
#womensrevolution
#iran
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Problem is not criticism of Islam or its prophet. Islam is a belief like all others.
The problem is murder.
If you are so concerned about defending Islam, maybe focus on the Islamists killing for your religion and prophet.
It will be a better use of your time and ours.
My letter to leaders of Muslim states to act collectively to counter the growing Islamophobia in non-Muslim states esp Western states causing increasing concern amongst Muslims the world over.
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Most killed by
#Islamist
#terrorism
worldwide are Muslims or presumed Muslim. Focus on
#StopMacron
all you want, but no justification can erase the thousands killed every year by Islamist terrorism or Islamist states in
#Iran
, Mid East, Africa, Asia...
We won't forgive or forget.
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"Le droit de critiquer l'islam est crucial pour nous athées de culture musulmane".
@MaryamNamazie
appelle la gauche à voir la nature réelle des islamistes : une force politique d'extrême-droite.
voir l'interview complète ici - sans paywall
"Le droit de critiquer l'islam est crucial pour nous athées de culture musulmane"
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It's opposite of
#HappyRamadan
#RamadanKareem
#RamadanMubarak
.
#Ramadan
's a bleak month where people are tortured, beaten, shunned, imprisoned for not submitting to fasting rules like in
#Iran
.
#HappyFastDefying
#FastDefyingKareem
#DontGiveADamnAboutRamadan
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I stand with the people of Afghanistan for
#enlightenment
against those who bring darkness and death
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@POLITICOEurope
Majority of
#Islamist
attacks take place in Middle East, Africa, South Asia. Just this year, thousands killed or wounded in educational centres, farming villages, hotels, temples, maternity wards, mosques, government buildings, marketplaces, on buses and in cars...
#Charlie_Hebdo
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On
#BlasphemyDay
@CEMB_forum
publishes The Woman’s Quran (114 Pages for 114 Surahs). Blank because religion is an offence against women.
#TheWomansQuran
#BlasphemerAtHeart
#EndBlasphemyLaws
Music: Shirin Mehrbod, Poem by Forough Farokhzad
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My
@TEDxWarwick
talk on Creativity in Protesting Fundamentalism finally published without slides: & advisory that it may be distressing or objectionable.' I find erasure of
#exMuslims
'distressing & objectionable.'
Censored slides:
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On this holy month, you will flog, imprison and threaten and kill anyone who does not want to fast and live by your rules. And then after this holy month you will flog, imprison and threaten and kill anyone who does not want to live by your totalitarian rules.
#mullahsgetlost
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Disgraceful that
@bbcasiannetwork
@ShaziaAwan
would ask what 'punishment' should be for blasphemy. You know people get killed for it.
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Throw enough acid in women's faces or imprison enough of them and
@vancouverpride
will tell us to shut up and accept the 'culture'.
.
@vancouverpride
denied Iranians from joining Pride as criticism of veil 'not culturally sensitive'.
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“Nightmare” by
#Afghan
female graffiti artist, Shamsia Hassani. A painting illustrating what so many Afghan
#women
are feeling with the
#Taliban
regaining control of all the country.
#Afghanistan
#AfghanistanBurning
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We are the innumerable
ما بیشمارانیم.
#HandsUpForApostasyDay
#مرتد #روز_ارتداد
#ApostasyDay
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Is
@TwitterSupport
imposing blasphemy laws?
@AtheistRepublic
been suspended without written explanation of which policies the account supposedly violated & were cause for the suspension.
Criticism of religion is a human right and integral to freedom of conscience & expression.
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US helped bring Islamic regime in power via Guadaloupe Conference after 1979 Iranian revolution, not to forget your 1953 coup. Look around Middle East. US brings only death & reaction & other side of Islamist coin. Stay out of Iranian politics. Iran's people will decide not you.
Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching!
#IranProtests
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@POLITICOEurope
Thousands killed/wounded in Islamist terrorism this year in Afghanistan, Chad, Iraq, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Syria… In Bangladesh, a man accused of “disrespecting” Quran was lynched. Not a cartoon in sight.
#charliehabdo
#FranceTerrorAttack
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Shamima Begum isn't innocent. Jihadi wives involved in persecution. But she's British citizen. Britain must take responsibility for its jihadis & not dump them in countries with enough to deal with. Bring her back, prosecute her fairly & imprison her if she has committed a crime.
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Will you help
@CEMB_forum
in raising funds for the first emergency shelter for ex-Muslims in order to provide accommodation and support in the UK to those at serious risk to their lives because of their apostasy from Islam.
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There's difference between criticising beliefs & killing people. Khamenei is last person to give lessons on free expression - he who has ordered murder of dissent in
#Iran
and slaughtered entire generations. You & your Islamist brothers only defend death. We will side with life.
In His Name
Young French people!
Ask your President why he supports insulting God’s Messenger in the name of freedom of expression. Does freedom of expression mean insulting, especially a sacred personage? Isn’t this stupid act an insult to the reason of the ppl who elected him?
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Today is anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of 31 yr old atheist, ex-Muslim M Farooq because of his atheism & Facebook posts pronounced "anti-Islamic." Today we remember him & all those killed because of bigotry & intolerance towards those who think differently.
#Farooq
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Egyptian Atheist Sherif Gaber has disappeared & is most likely arrested when trying to leave Egypt on 2nd May
#FreeSherifGaber
#AtheismNotACrime
#بى_خدايى_جرم_نيست
#الإلحاد_لیس_بجریمة
#الحاد_جرم_نہیں
#নাস্তিকতা_কোন_অপরাধ_নয়
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