We were experiencing technical difficulties due to a change of servers. Everything is back up and working now But If you have gotten in touch with us in the last 2-3 weeks through any of our emails including our spokespersons’, please get back in touch as we/they might not have received it at all. You can also reach us through our social media https://www.facebook.com/exmuslims/ https://twitter.com/CEMB_forum https://twitter.com/MaryamNamazie https://twitter.com/apostateali As well as our emails at: info@ex-muslim.org.uk hello@ex-muslim.org.uk ali.malik@ex-muslim.org.uk info@maryamnamazie.com ..read more

More than 50 freethinkers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia (including Cape Malay), Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, France, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA and the Diaspora will gather in Oslo during 31 August – 1 September 2024 for Celebrating Dissent Oslo. The two day conference is a continuation of the hugely successful Celebrating Dissent conferences held in London (2014), London (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2 ..read more

CEMB organised fast-defying protests by staging picnics outside the embassies of countries that prosecute people for eating outdoors during the fasting hours of Ramadan. Fast-defying picnics were first started by feminist activist Ibtaissame Betty Lachgar and her organisation MALI in Muhammadiya Morocco in 2009. They were met with severe backlash, greeted by at least 100 police officers, media people, and a mob of Islamists ended up threatened and then dispersed by the police, sighting their safety.       Betty was visiting London, and as it happened to be in Ramadan, we at CEMB ..read more

More than 50 freethinkers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia (including Cape Malay), Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, France, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA and the Diaspora will gather in Oslo during 31 August – 1 September 2024 for Celebrating Dissent Oslo. The two day conference is a continuation of the hugely successful Celebrating Dissent conferences held in London (2014), London (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2 ..read more

Labour’s Islamic blasphemy law, Spiked, 26 February 2024 ..read more

Maryam Namazie speaks to CFI podcast on The Paris Appeal, 24 February 2024 ..read more

Home Office humiliation after it is mocked for marking World Hijab Day, Express, 10 February 2024 ..read more

Hidžab: nametanje ili izbor? Slučajevi Mahse Amini, Fairouz Mouradi i Armite Geravand, Rijeka Danas, 2 February 2024 ..read more

World Hijab Day, uno strumento di repressione può diventare simbolo di orgoglio? Sky Italy, 1 February 2024 ..read more

Today is #WorldHijabDay #veiledinstrength #unveiledinstrength #no2hijabday See World Hijab Day, uno strumento di repressione può diventare simbolo di orgoglio? Sky Italy, 1 February 2024 Fighting religious intolerance is important, as is fighting intolerance against those who have no religion and are being killed for apostasy and blasphemy in countries under Islamic rule. But you cannot fight religious intolerance by normalising misogyny. This year’s World Hijab Day’s theme is Veiling is Strength but it doesn’t take strength to do as you are told. The veiling of women is a religious imposition ..read more