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- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
- Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- Hamas, Hezbollah, and so-called 'resistance' against Zionist imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Imperialism, as Lenin states, is more progressive than the fanatical religious tendencies that fight to resist it. But to be clear, this does not amount to an endorsement of U.S. or Israeli policies of aggression. All that it means is one should not support tendencies that are even more wretched than foreign, imperialist domination, simply in the name of national self-determination.
- Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
- Islam, Politics and the State
The Pakistan Experience
Resource Type: Book
Mohammad Asghar Khan, prominent in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, has assembled leading Pakistani scholars at home and abroad to assess critically the consequences of Zia's Islamicisation measures, and the relationship between Islam and politics. The history of right-wing Islamic movements and the current Islamicisation drive are examined.
- Sharia 'Courts': Why Regulation is Not the Answer
Resource Type: Article
'Sharia' and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and other minority women to second rate systems of justice. But is regulation the answer?
- The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
- Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
- Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
Resource Type: Article
On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
- Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
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