Petition launched to allow secular activist Maryam Namazie's speech at Warwick University, following 'ban'

A petition has been set up to campaign against Warwick University’s alleged decision to bar secular activist Maryam Namazie from speaking at the Student Union. The President of Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists (WASH) society – the group who had booked Ms Namazie to speak –started the petition.
Benjamin David wrote on the petition’s page: “The restriction of free-thought and non-violent free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.”

The petition defends Ms Namazie, who fled Iran in 1980 following the revolution and is the leader of the council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, saying: “Maryam often describes the true facts concerning her own experiences and those of people she works with in relation to radical forms of Islam – not all forms of Islam, just those pernicious radical strands of the religion – things that most peaceful Muslims would also condemn.” The union reportedly told Mr David they rejected the request for Ms Namazie to speak as they had concern her appearance would “incite hatred” against Muslim students. After hearing of the decision, Ms Namazie told The Independent on Friday: “If people like me who fled an Islamist regime can’t speak out about my opposition to the far-right Islamic movement, if I can’t criticise Islam… that leaves very [few] options for me as a dissenter because the only thing I have is my freedom of expression.”


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/maryam-namazie-petition-to-allow-maryam-namazie-speech-at-warwick-university-following-alleged-ban-a6668406.html

Much back tracking going on. Prof Cox angry at the "bloody" huffington post because they said he was boycotting Warwick.

the university heads seem like morons.

Unsurprisingly, the university have changed their stance and declared themselves all for free speech.

ms namazie is a vile islamophobe who is trying to incite hatred against all Muslims by criticising islam

right walter??

Really Dutchman
I think you will find she is a human rights activist:



Namazie was born in Tehran, but left with her family in 1980 after the 1979 revolution in Iran. She has subsequently lived in India, the United Kingdom and the United States, where she began her studies at the age of 17. Maryam Namazie (Persian: مریم نمازی) (born 1966 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born secularist and human rights activist, commentator and broadcaster. She is spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, One Law for All^[ and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain



She also thinks people like you are idiots:


Namazie strongly distances herself from far-right anti-Islamic groups, whom she doesn't regard as allies, but enemies as well.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Namazie

smelly-bandit wrote:ms namazie is a vile islamophobe who is trying to incite hatred against all Muslims by criticising islam

right walter??

On the contrary. She's more known for being anti-Semitic for anti Zionist stance.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:ms namazie is a vile islamophobe who is trying to incite hatred against all Muslims by criticising islam

right walter??

On the contrary. She's more known for being anti-Semitic for anti Zionist stance.

You clearly do not know anything about discrimination:
I may may not share her views on Israel, but anti-semnitism?
You really are one tital idiot:

Robert Spencer should be more honest and own up to his far-Right politics

Robert Spencer has responded to One Law for All's report Enemies not Allies: The Far-Right by saying: 'If Maryam Namazie's One Law For All claims to oppose the jihad while attacking anti-jihadists and supporting the genocidal jihad against Israel, then it is simply a false-flag operation. He links to a press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq posted on my blog as proof of ‘anti-Semitism’.

On charges of ‘anti-Semitism’

I find it interesting how Spencer uses the tactics of Islamists. Islamists will often say any criticism of Islam and Islamism is an attack on Muslims and racism in order to silence opposition and in fact bulldoze over the rights of Muslims and others. Spencer labels any criticism of Israeli government policies as anti-Semitism in order to do the same. Needless to say, it is ironic to see the far-Right oppose anti-Semitism – at least tactically for now - when anti-Semitism has always been one of its important cornerstones.

The December 2008 press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq that Spencer is referring to opposes the ‘brutal airstrikes of the Israeli government’ and its having ‘dropped more than 100 tons of explosives on Gaza in the deadliest bombing campaigns’.

The press release goes on to say that:

‘Israel's bombing of Gaza is a barbaric act of state terrorism that must be met with outrage and protest. This is part of the on-going conflict between the State of Israel and the barbaric Islamic movement Hamas, which spares no opportunity to fire rockets at Israeli populated neighborhoods. The bombing is a vicious attack on over one million defenseless civilians living in Gaza. While it claims its aim is to eliminate Hamas military targets, the purpose of its vicious air campaign is to create terror in the region with the greatest possible destruction and death toll among Palestinians in order to impose its hegemony and power in defiance of all calls and cries of humanity to stop the massacre and to lift the economic blockade on the innocent people of Gaza. Our Party denounces the brutal bombing by the state of Israel against the people of Gaza and considers it as a crime of state terrorism and calls for its immediate and unconditional stop, and to bring those who ordered it to trial as criminals. The end of the brutal conflict between the forces of terrorism on the regional level and the world will only be achieved through the establishment of a Palestinian state with equal rights to the State of Israel, and therefore, put an end to terrorism, racism and fascism, and the religious Right-wing on both sides of the conflict. This is the task of humanity and the Palestinian Left and also the task of civilized humanity around the world.’

The press release ends with the slogans: ‘Stop the Barbaric Bombing of the civilian population in Gaza Now! Freedom and Security for the Peoples of Palestine and Israel! Yes to the establishment of a Palestinian State with Equal Rights to the State of Israel!’

http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.de/2011/08/robert-spencer-should-be-more-honest.html

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:ms namazie is a vile islamophobe who is trying to incite hatred against all Muslims by criticising islam

right walter??

On the contrary. She's more known for being anti-Semitic for anti Zionist stance.

i take it you admire her greatly

Cuchulain wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

On the contrary. She's more known for being anti-Semitic for anti Zionist stance.

You clearly do not know anything about discrimination:
I may may not share her views on Israel, but anti-semnitism?
You really are one tital idiot:

Robert Spencer should be more honest and own up to his far-Right politics

Robert Spencer has responded to One Law for All's report Enemies not Allies: The Far-Right by saying: 'If Maryam Namazie's One Law For All claims to oppose the jihad while attacking anti-jihadists and supporting the genocidal jihad against Israel, then it is simply a false-flag operation. He links to a press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq posted on my blog as proof of ‘anti-Semitism’.

On charges of ‘anti-Semitism’

I find it interesting how Spencer uses the tactics of Islamists. Islamists will often say any criticism of Islam and Islamism is an attack on Muslims and racism in order to silence opposition and in fact bulldoze over the rights of Muslims and others. Spencer labels any criticism of Israeli government policies as anti-Semitism in order to do the same. Needless to say, it is ironic to see the far-Right oppose anti-Semitism – at least tactically for now - when anti-Semitism has always been one of its important cornerstones.

The December 2008 press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq that Spencer is referring to opposes the ‘brutal airstrikes of the Israeli government’ and its having ‘dropped more than 100 tons of explosives on Gaza in the deadliest bombing campaigns’.

The press release goes on to say that:

‘Israel's bombing of Gaza is a barbaric act of state terrorism that must be met with outrage and protest. This is part of the on-going conflict between the State of Israel and the barbaric Islamic movement Hamas, which spares no opportunity to fire rockets at Israeli populated neighborhoods. The bombing is a vicious attack on over one million defenseless civilians living in Gaza. While it claims its aim is to eliminate Hamas military targets, the purpose of its vicious air campaign is to create terror in the region with the greatest possible destruction and death toll among Palestinians in order to impose its hegemony and power in defiance of all calls and cries of humanity to stop the massacre and to lift the economic blockade on the innocent people of Gaza. Our Party denounces the brutal bombing by the state of Israel against the people of Gaza and considers it as a crime of state terrorism and calls for its immediate and unconditional stop, and to bring those who ordered it to trial as criminals. The end of the brutal conflict between the forces of terrorism on the regional level and the world will only be achieved through the establishment of a Palestinian state with equal rights to the State of Israel, and therefore, put an end to terrorism, racism and fascism, and the religious Right-wing on both sides of the conflict. This is the task of humanity and the Palestinian Left and also the task of civilized humanity around the world.’

The press release ends with the slogans: ‘Stop the Barbaric Bombing of the civilian population in Gaza Now! Freedom and Security for the Peoples of Palestine and Israel! Yes to the establishment of a Palestinian State with Equal Rights to the State of Israel!’

http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.de/2011/08/robert-spencer-should-be-more-honest.html

lol! Stop getting wound up on a Monday. Bad weekend? Lol!

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:

You clearly do not know anything about discrimination:
I may may not share her views on Israel, but anti-semnitism?
You really are one tital idiot:

Robert Spencer should be more honest and own up to his far-Right politics

Robert Spencer has responded to One Law for All's report Enemies not Allies: The Far-Right by saying: 'If Maryam Namazie's One Law For All claims to oppose the jihad while attacking anti-jihadists and supporting the genocidal jihad against Israel, then it is simply a false-flag operation. He links to a press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq posted on my blog as proof of ‘anti-Semitism’.

On charges of ‘anti-Semitism’

I find it interesting how Spencer uses the tactics of Islamists. Islamists will often say any criticism of Islam and Islamism is an attack on Muslims and racism in order to silence opposition and in fact bulldoze over the rights of Muslims and others. Spencer labels any criticism of Israeli government policies as anti-Semitism in order to do the same. Needless to say, it is ironic to see the far-Right oppose anti-Semitism – at least tactically for now - when anti-Semitism has always been one of its important cornerstones.

The December 2008 press release of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq that Spencer is referring to opposes the ‘brutal airstrikes of the Israeli government’ and its having ‘dropped more than 100 tons of explosives on Gaza in the deadliest bombing campaigns’.

The press release goes on to say that:

‘Israel's bombing of Gaza is a barbaric act of state terrorism that must be met with outrage and protest. This is part of the on-going conflict between the State of Israel and the barbaric Islamic movement Hamas, which spares no opportunity to fire rockets at Israeli populated neighborhoods. The bombing is a vicious attack on over one million defenseless civilians living in Gaza. While it claims its aim is to eliminate Hamas military targets, the purpose of its vicious air campaign is to create terror in the region with the greatest possible destruction and death toll among Palestinians in order to impose its hegemony and power in defiance of all calls and cries of humanity to stop the massacre and to lift the economic blockade on the innocent people of Gaza. Our Party denounces the brutal bombing by the state of Israel against the people of Gaza and considers it as a crime of state terrorism and calls for its immediate and unconditional stop, and to bring those who ordered it to trial as criminals. The end of the brutal conflict between the forces of terrorism on the regional level and the world will only be achieved through the establishment of a Palestinian state with equal rights to the State of Israel, and therefore, put an end to terrorism, racism and fascism, and the religious Right-wing on both sides of the conflict. This is the task of humanity and the Palestinian Left and also the task of civilized humanity around the world.’

The press release ends with the slogans: ‘Stop the Barbaric Bombing of the civilian population in Gaza Now! Freedom and Security for the Peoples of Palestine and Israel! Yes to the establishment of a Palestinian State with Equal Rights to the State of Israel!’

http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.de/2011/08/robert-spencer-should-be-more-honest.html

lol! Stop getting wound up on a Monday. Bad weekend? Lol!

Desperation, play the emotive card again Twiggy
I told you that your warranty on using the emotive card has expired.

you two are so cute

smelly-bandit wrote:

you two are so cute

Finally coming out of the closet Dutchman?

09.28.2015

Cuchulain wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

you two are so cute

Finally coming out of the closet Dutchman?

Is the wish the father of the thought there Didge?!

Nems wrote:Unsurprisingly, the university have changed their stance and declared themselves all for free speech.

I saw that. Here's the statement - it was all a mistake

https://www.warwicksu.com/news/article/warwicksu/Warwick-SU-to-host-Maryam-Namazie-as-an-External-Speaker/

I knew I'd remembered her name from somewhere. Do not click on this link if you are offended by nudity

http://linkis.com/url-image/http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/files/2015/03/Maryam1b-copy.jpg