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Related: About this forumYAHNA: Maryam Namazie
Namazie has not limited her activism for secularism to her country of birth: she has also campaigned in Canada and Britain, where she currently lives. She has, by writing numerous articles and making public statements, specialised into challenging cultural relativism and political Islam. These activities were recognised by the National Secular Society with the 2005 Secularist of the Year award, making Namazie its first recipient.[2][10] During the Danish cartoon riots, she was also part of the twelve signers of Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism together with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Shahla Chafiq, Caroline Fourest, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Irshad Manji, Mehdi Mozaffari, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Sfeir, Philippe Val, and Ibn Warraq. The manifesto starts as follows: "After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism."[11] Namazie said in a 2006 interview that the response by the public 'has been overwhelming. Many feel such a manifesto is extremely timely whilst of course there is the usual hate mail from Islamists.'[12]
Namazie has denounced the discrimination women have to endure under the Islamic regime: From the very fact that you are a second-class citizen, even your testimony legally is worth half that of a man's, you get half what a boy does in inheritance if you are a girl. You have to be veiled if you're a girl or a woman, and there are certain fields of education or work that are closed to you because you're considered emotional.[13] She compares women's situation under Islamic regimes today to the social inequalities under the apartheid in South Africa, and she cites as examples the existence of separate entrances for women into government offices and the separation of men and women on swimming areas in the Caspian Sea by a curtain.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Namazie
Funny how when it is time to Bash Those Horrible New Atheists, her name never comes up.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)E.g., it's not a disgrace or an indication of second class status that women must cover up. It's to honor them plus it's an ancient tradition and probably not due to religion at all you know. And some other reasons. And DAWSNIK!!!111
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)( , for the jury)
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)and has not one fucking thing to do with any of the ludicrous evidence for so-called "gods".
Or so we've been told by the gang down at the yacht club.
rug
(82,333 posts)No comparison.
MellowDem
(5,018 posts)But has she passed Reza Aslan's test of who is or isn't an atheist?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)So, by the Reza Aslan metric of who-should-and-who-should-not-be-talking-about-religion, she should probably keep quiet.
MellowDem
(5,018 posts)I think you're getting confused with he very explicit ban on women in leadership positions in the Catholic Church. They don't even have to rely on technicalities, it's just straight up bigoted as fuck.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)"From the birth of the Church, out of the womb of Fear and the fatherhood of Ignorance, it has taught the inferiority of woman. In one form or another through the various mythical legends of the various mythical creeds, runs the undercurrent of the behef in the fall of man through the persuasion of woman, her subjective condition as punishment, her natural vileness, total depravity, etc.; and from the days of Adam until now the Christian Church, with which we live specially to deal, has made Woman the excuse, the scapegoat for the evil deeds of man."
-Voltairine de Cleyre