Maryam Namazie joins Richard Dawkins, Schools Select Committee chairman Barry Sheerman, and others on a debate regarding religion and schools on January 16, 2008 on Teachers TV. To see the one hour programme, click here:
http://www.teachers.tv/video/24057. Future events: The Power of Religion in Society, 24 January 2008, 6:30-8pm, LSE, LondonThe London chapter of the Dutch Labour Party will host a debate with British and Dutch guest speakers to discuss the role of religion in our society, for example in the education system (the discussion on Islamic Schools) or the delivery of public services (think of the recent debate on Catholic adoption agencies refusing to offer services to gay couples). What lessons can we learn from the Dutch and British experiences? And how powerful is religion in our society nowadays?
Chair: Lord Harrison; Speakers: Cecile Laborde (Politics, University College London); Paul Kalma MP (Dutch Labour MP & former director of the Wiardi Beckman) and Maryam Namazie
Vera Anstey Room
Main Builing LSE Campus
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Ex-Muslims and the challenge to political Islam, 30 January 2008, 7:30pm, Cambridge UniversityMaryam Namazie will be speaking at a Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society on the ex-Muslim movement and its challenge to political Islam on January 30, 2008 at 7:30pm. For more information, go here:
http://www.cuaas.org.uk/events.htm
Press Conference, February 27, 2008, BerlinMaryam Namazie will be attending a press conference in Berlin on the Council of Ex-Muslims on February 27, 2008. More details to follow.
Religion and radicalism, 6 March 2008, 7pm, Bishopsgate Institute, London"We're told that religion today is radical. Islamic extremists, evangelical fundamentalists, Catholic militants - the threat that faith poses to secular society is an aggressive, assertive and vehement one. But historically, the faithful were slated by humanists for their conservatism - where religion went wrong was its opposition to change, not its advocacy of it. So are the religious now radical - or has secular society simply taken on the conservatism of its God-fearing forebears?" Maryam Namazie will be debating with other panellists on this issue.
International Women’s Day seminar, March 10, 2008, LondonThe Council of Ex-Muslims and Equal Rights Now, an organisation for women’s rights in Iran are holding a seminar in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day on March 10, 2008 from 6-10pm at Conway Hall. The seminar will focus on Sexual apartheid, Islam and political Islam and Women's Rights. Confirmed speakers at the seminar are: Louise Couling, Chair of the Regional Women's Committee and member of the National Executive Council of Unison; Joan Smith, Independent Columnist; Maryam Namazie and Mina Ahadi, the Councils of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Germany and National Secular Society Secularist of the Year award winners in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and Houzan Mahmoud, spokesperson of the Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq. The event will be chaired by Hanne Stinson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association. The seminar has been endorsed by the National Secular Society.
International Conference on Apostasy, Ex-Muslims and the challenge to political Islam, October 10, 2008 at Conway Hall, London
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain is holding an international conference on Apostasy, Ex-Muslims and the challenge to political Islam. Confirmed speakers include: Mina Ahadi, Mahin Alipour, Ehsan Jami, Maryam Namazie, and Ibn Warraq.
Topic: Calender of upcoming events (plus a video).