Maryam Namazie Azar Majedi and Homa Arjomand have now written two lengthy articles in response to my criticism of their position on Islamism. The remarkable feature of this exchange is that the more they write, the further they move away from the argument itself. Their most recent intervention relies on distortion, deception, guilt by association, character assassination and insinuation. Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) protests outside the Iranian, Saudi, Moroccan and Pakistani embassies in solidarity with those persecuted for eating during Ramadan is equated with French colonial officers drinking wine in Algerian mosques. An award from a French secularist…