Hundreds will be demonstrating in London against Sharia and religious laws and in support of secularism and universal rights on Sunday 20 June 2010. The rally organised by the One Law for All Campaign will be held from 1400-1600 hours at Richmond Terrace junction with Whitehall opposite Downing Street (SW1A 2). (Please note venue change from Trafalgar Square made by police; closest underground: Westminster.)
On the day, the Campaign will make public its new report entitled: Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights. In the report One Law for All outlines what Sharia law is, how it is practised in Britain and exposes the way in which Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are circumventing British law and human rights legislation. The report also reveals the gross injustices to women and children in particular and reiterates the need to end Sharia and all religious courts on the basis that they work against, and not for, equality and human rights.
After the One Law for All rally, there will be a march organised by Iran Solidarity from 1600-1700 hours. The march will move from Richmond Terrace Junction to a protest at the embassy of the Islamic regime of Iran. According to Spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, “whilst racist and far Right groups like the English Defence League and the British Nationalist Party blame ‘Muslim immigration’ for Sharia law in order to further their inhuman agenda, it is people living under Islamic laws or the many who have fled Sharia and sought refuge here who are the principal victims of Islamism, and in the forefront of the struggle against it. Within this context, the One Law for All Campaign and the fight against Sharia law in Britain is an important front in the ongoing battle of people in Iran and everywhere against Islamism and for freedom, equality and secularism.”
The march will culminate in a protest rally in front of the embassy of the Islamic regime of Iran (16 Prince’s Gate, London SW7 1PT; closest underground: Knightsbridge). The event will end at 1730 hours.
Notes:
1. Confirmed speakers and performers at the London rally include: AK47 (Street Poet); Asad Abbas (Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain); R Y Alam (Poet); Adam Barnett (Musician); David Fisher (Singer/ Songwriter); Lilith (Street Poet); Lyrical Agent (Emcee); Rony Miah (Lawyers’ Secular Society); Maryam Namazie (One Law for All and Iran Solidarity); Gerard Phillips (National Secular Society); Naomi Phillips (British Humanist Association); Fariborz Pooya (Iranian Secular Society); Brent Lee Regan (Emcee); Yasmin Rehman (Women’s Rights Campaigner); Gita Sahgal (Activist); Muriel Seltman (Activist); Sohaila Sharifi (Equal Rights Now); Peter Tatchell (Human Rights Campaigner); and others. We will also screen a segment of a major new film for HBO called For Neda by director Anthony Thomas.
2. June 20 marks the day when 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead by the Islamic regime of Iran’s security forces at a protest in Tehran. Her demand for freedom in the face of all-out repression has made her a symbol of people everywhere. According to Maryam Namazie, “It is very apt for us to remember Neda in our battle for equal rights in Britain or wherever we happen to live. Neda’s murder and Sharia law in Britain are intrinsically linked; both are the result of the rise of the political Islamic movement of which the Islamic regime of Iran is a cornerstone.”
3. To read responses to Frequently Asked Questions, go to:
http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/about/faq/. The responses are entitled:
The affinity between the far right and the Islamists; Islam matters because of political Islam; Secularism is an important vehicle to protect society; We will have nothing to do with the English Defence League; Criticising Islam is not racist; Laws should safeguard rights not violate them; There’s no place for Sharia law in Britain; The right to asylum is a basic human right; and many more.
4. To donate to the crucial work of One Law for All, please either send a cheque to our address below or pay via Paypal by visiting: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/donate/. We need regular support that we can rely on and are asking for supporters to commit to giving at least £5-10 a month via direct debit. You can find out more about how to join the 100 Club at the above link.
5. For more information, contact:
Maryam Namazie
One Law for All and Iran Solidarity
BM Box 2387
London WC1N 3XX, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731
onelawforall@gmail.com
iransolidaritynow@gmail.com
www.onelawforall.org.uk
www.iransolidarity.org.uk
http://iransolidarity.blogspot.com
Comments
15 responses to “London June 20: Rally against Sharia and religious laws”
Maryam Namazie is a Communist. When will the protest take place against North Korea’s cold blooded murder of 46 south Korean sailors? That is five times the number Israel killed in its Gaza flotilla relief attack. If I could I would assassinate Kim Jong Il. North Korea’s government is the world’s worst. Iran’s rigged presidential election is more than exists in any Communist country. If any countries are theocracies it sure is Communist ones. You must an atheist or else.
@Barry Kendall
Why on earth do you think the obvious agression from mad, nepotic North Korea should be addressed in a rally against Sharia and religious laws?
You are free to make your own rally against pseudo-religious communist regimes whenever you like.
Cassanders
In Cod we trust
@Barry Kendell,
yes – and those deaths in the Gaza Flotilla attack were caused by islamic ‘activists’ attacking relatively harmless customs & excise officers.
It is because Islam condones attacks such as those of the flottilla against the israel officers that this march is necessary.
Nothing to do with communism at all in fact.
Nothing to do with North Korea, either.
The term Communist is almost beyond meaningless in the modern era. Its very similar to the word socialism, both taken beyond their real meanings.
@Shane; So what is their real meaning then ? Would a true Scotsman know ?
Communist: a political theory favouring collectivism in a classless society
Besides calling somebody a “Communist” isn’t itself a criticism of Communism. People just assume Communism is unsound regardless of whether it is, or it isn’t.
May I ask what a “true” Scotsman is…
@Shane. ” a political theory favouring collectivism in a classless society”. Nice and vague that and only “favouring” eh ? Communism and Socialism are just like religion they mean whatever anyone adopting them wants them to mean, that way they can never be pinned down and they never fail since the “true” version has never been tried and any wrongdoing on their behalf is only due to the “others” who just aren’t doing it right.
You may indeed ask what a true Scotsman is, unfortunately neither I nor anyone else will ever be able to provide you with an answer, see above.
[…] If you’re in London, or say maybe Dorking, or St Albans, or High Wycombe, or what the hell, Manchester, or Bristol, or Norwich, get yourself to Hyde Park for the rally against sharia and religious laws in the UK. […]
I do so wish organisations like you would arrange demonstrations elsewhere than London sometimes so that the rest of us in the north of the country may have the chance to be involved.
I wish you all the best and do hope there are some videos of the speeches and demos going to be uploaded.
Equality for all, with one law for all
How long before OneLawForAll is lambasted by the UAF and the pro-Islamists who want Sharia?
The EDL is trying to achieve exactly the same as One Law For All. They just have a bad reputation as fascists and far-right, which is untrue, but which OLFA has bought into.
I hope OLFA is able to achieve the right result without hitting the same barriers the EDL has had to fight, unsuccessfully
It’s irritating that Namazie deploys the usual ‘racist’ smear against native Britons who don’t like seeing their country Islamised. She is a Communist which predictably means that she wishes to see the same social system in every country. Well, you cannot force countries to give up their beliefs and cultures, you can only persuade through setting a positive example that others wish to emulate. Namazie’s ‘internationalist’ stance sets us on the road to World War III. Much as I dislike sharia and all things Islamic, it’s best not to meddle in the affairs of other countries and to concentrate on solving the problems arising from Islamisation that we have in our own.
Let’s de-Islamise our traditionally non-Muslim Western societies and deploy moderate nationalism (i.e. not xenophobia, not jingoism and not imperialism) to achieve this goal. Anyone who wishes to follow Islam should be encouraged to leave (indigenous converts included). Our outlooks simply do not mix. If we do not effectively establish some states as refugia in which non-Islamic Western traditions are free to thrive, we will eventually all go under and our civilisation will be lost, at one with Ninevah and Tyre. It’s the only way to prevent sharia from taking hold: the assertion of a moderate nationalist culturist platform in Western societies as exemplified by the PVV.
Still, I’m glad to see that the French are developing innovative an anti-Islamisation movement. Witness last night’s sausage and wine protest/party in Paris. As you can see from the following video footage, the numbers were higher than those initially reported: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-footage-of-paris-counter.html
How about a dogwalking protest somewhere in Britain with “seeing-eye dogs” (i.e. guide dogs) taking the lead (please excuse the pun) in a mass dogwalk through a park that has effectively become a no-go zone because of Islamic colonisation?
Waraq – well maybe you could organize such a rally! Somebody has to do it; maybe you’re that somebody. Or maybe you know somebody, or several, who could and would do it.
I am not a defender of Communism, Thornavis I agree with you 100% about such belief systems.
Im glad people are starting to oppose shiara law, I thought the whole of Europe would be under it soon but freedom is fighting back