Maryam Namazie is an international activist, atheist, feminist and secularist who with her family had to flee Iran after the Islamic revolution there. She is now based in the United Kingdom with the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Namazie campaigns to end apostasy and blasphemy laws, to defend secularism and universal rights and equality. She hosts the weekly “Bread and Roses” TV show, produced in both English and Persian. Maryam Namazie has received many awards and recognitions for her activism, including from the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
“I think the reality is that we are faced with very brutal religious right movements; we’re faced with the Islamists, but you have the rise of the Christian right, for example, in the United States,” Namazie tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “We’re seeing religious right movements in various countries, like the Hindu right, a Buddhist right, the Jewish right. They have hugely negative effects on people’s lives, and they target and come for women first.”
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Upcoming guests include former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and Tia Levings, author of “A Well-Trained Wife.” You can catch interviews from earlier this fall, including with Rep. Jared Huffman, and from previous seasons here, including with Gloria Steinem, Ron Reagan, author John Irving, actor John “Q” de Lancie and award-winning columnist Katha Pollitt.
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