Caroline Cox - Revision history

Matthew Pringle: fixed ref errors

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Melissa Jones: /* Affiliations */ EuroCSE

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Affiliations: EuroCSE

Melissa Jones: /* Sharia Watch UK */

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Sharia Watch UK

Melissa Jones: /* Contact */

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Contact

Clementine Boucher: /* Sharia Law Bill */

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Sharia Law Bill

Clementine Boucher: /* Reactions */

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Reactions

Clementine Boucher: /* Sharia Law Bill */

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Sharia Law Bill

Clementine Boucher: /* Sharia Law Bill */

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Sharia Law Bill

Clementine Boucher: /* Sharia Law Bill */

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Sharia Law Bill

Clementine Boucher at 09:23, 7 October 2016

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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief]] - Vice-chair <ref>[https://freedomdeclared.org/about/appg/ 'Freedom Declared: Who we are'], Freedom Declared website, undated, accessed 6 November 2015 </ref>
-*[[All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan and South Sudan]] - Vice-chair <ref name="November">[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/151113/sudan-and-south-sudan.htm Sudan APPG], ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 November 2015</ref>
+*[[All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan and South Sudan]] - Vice-chair <ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/151113/sudan-and-south-sudan.htm Sudan APPG], ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 November 2015</ref>
-*[[All-Party Parliamentary Group on "Honour" Based Abuse]] - Vice-chair<ref name="November">[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/151113/honour-based-abuse..htm Honour Based Abuse APPG],''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 November 2015</ref>
+*[[All-Party Parliamentary Group on "Honour" Based Abuse]] - Vice-chair<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/151113/honour-based-abuse..htm Honour Based Abuse APPG],''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 18 November 2015</ref>
 *[[One Jerusalem]] Co-founder (2001)
 *[[Freedom Association]] Council member and management committee (1985 -) | [[Galton Institute]], adviser <ref>David Pallister [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/21/themarsbarhasa The numbers game]: David Coleman has become a controversial figure recently, but what is the real agenda of the organisation he helped found, MigrationWatch? The Guardian, Wednesday 21 March 2007 09.30 GMT.</ref>

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 *[[Stand for Peace]] - hosted report launch in House of Lords, November 2013<ref>Richard Bartholomew, [http://barthsnotes.com/2013/11/16/britains-first-counter-extremism-interfaith-organisation/ Britain’s “First Counter-Extremism Interfaith Organisation”], 16 November 2013, accessed 12 February 2015</ref>
 *[[Equal and Free]] -director
 ==Publications==

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 ===Sharia Watch UK===
-In July 2015 Cox made the following statement on her 'position' regarding Sharia Watch, the controversial organisation run by unsuccessful [[UKIP]] candidate [[Anne Marie Waters]] which Cox had helped launch the previous year in the House of Lords, and which had just announced its intention to run a 'Mohammed cartoon' drawing contest in the UK similar to one run by [[Pamela Geller]] in Texas USA:
+In July 2015 Cox made the following statement on her 'position' regarding Sharia Watch, the controversial organisation run by unsuccessful [[UKIP]] candidate [[Anne Marie Waters]] which Cox had helped launch the previous year in the House of Lords, and which had just announced its intention to run a 'Mohammed cartoon' drawing contest in the UK similar to one run by [[Pamela Geller]] in Texas USA in May 2015:
 :I was willing to share the launch of Sharia Watch in a committee room in the House of Lords because of my well-known commitment to the fundamental principle of freedom of speech, concern for religiously-sanctioned gender discrimination and the threats to the essential foundation of democracy of one law for all. I now have no continuing connection or involvement with Sharia Watch'. <ref> Equal and Free website, accessed October 2015 </ref>

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 ==Contact==
-:Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust
+:[[Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust]]
 :1&3 Arnellan House
 :144-146 Slough Lane

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 In January 2016, she gave an interview with ''International Business Times'', where she responded to the accusation that the bill is badly timed given a rise in hostility towards British Muslims:
 :'I am sometimes a little impatient with those who oppose the bill because it is going to generate Islamophobia. It is helping Muslim women. It is not Islamophobic. If the leaders of the communities had done more to help those women and came on board with the bill then I think that would be far more constructive way forward than just using the victim card and saying it is increasing Islamophobia' <ref name=suffragettes> Orlando Crowcroft, [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sharia-law-uk-baroness-cox-suffragettes-will-be-turning-their-graves-1539577 Sharia law UK: Baroness Cox – 'The Suffragettes will be turning in their graves'], ''International Business Times'', January 25, 2016. Accessed 08 October 2016. </ref>
 ====Reactions====

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 [[Lord Faulks]], the justice minister, highlighted a government review of the operation of Sharia Councils but said in 2015 that new laws were not needed as there are already protections in common law and existing legislation. <ref name=childreneach/>
-Baroness Cox received support and approval, amongst others, from [[Christian Concern]]'s [[Andrea Minichiello Williams]] ('Baroness Cox has taken the hugely courageous step of laying down a Bill to curb the discriminatory practice of sharia law in this nation, [...]. It is a crucial Bill for muslim women who wish to live in freedom and for equality for all before the law. It is also vital in terms of the proclamation of Christian Truth.' <ref> Andrea Williams [http://www.christianconcern.com/blog/no-sharia-here No Sharia Here], ''Christian Concern'', accessed October 3 2016. </ref>), the [[Gatestone Institute]] <ref> Soeren Kern, [https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5512/sharia-courts-muslim-women UK: Sharia Courts Abusing Muslim Women], ''Gatestone Institute'', April 8, 2015. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref> and the [[Clarion Project]] <ref> Soeren Kern, [http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/uk-report-muslim-women-being-abused-sharia-law-courts UK Report: Muslim Women Being Abused By Sharia Law Courts], ''Gatestone Institute'', April 13 2015. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>
+Baroness Cox received support and approval, amongst others, from [[Christian Concern]]'s [[Andrea Minichiello Williams]] ('Baroness Cox has taken the hugely courageous step of laying down a Bill to curb the discriminatory practice of sharia law in this nation, [...]. It is a crucial Bill for muslim women who wish to live in freedom and for equality for all before the law. It is also vital in terms of the proclamation of Christian Truth.' <ref> Andrea Williams [http://www.christianconcern.com/blog/no-sharia-here No Sharia Here], ''Christian Concern'', accessed October 3 2016. </ref>), the [[Gatestone Institute]] <ref> Soeren Kern, [https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5512/sharia-courts-muslim-women UK: Sharia Courts Abusing Muslim Women], ''Gatestone Institute'', April 8, 2015. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref> and the [[Clarion Project]]. <ref> Soeren Kern, [http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/uk-report-muslim-women-being-abused-sharia-law-courts UK Report: Muslim Women Being Abused By Sharia Law Courts], ''Gatestone Institute'', April 13 2015. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>
 ===Meeting with Bashar al-Assad===

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 She gave an interview with ''The Telegraph'' in 2014, in which she was called 'the feisty baroness defending "voiceless" Muslim women', because she claims to 'crusade' against Sharia law in the name of gender equality: 'The suffragettes will be turning in their graves,' she said during the interview. 'It undermines the most fundamental principles of equality enshrined in British law'.
 She responded to accusations of Islamophobia:
-:'Yes, it hurts a little, but I’ve been called Islamophobic many times. It’s rubbish, of course. I’m passionate about Muslim women and yet I am called Islamophobic.' <ref> Peter Stanford [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10778554/The-feisty-baroness-defending-voiceless-Muslim-women.html The feisty baroness defending 'voiceless’ Muslim women], ''The Telegraph'', 22 April 2014. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>
+:'It’s rubbish, of course. I’m passionate about Muslim women and yet I am called Islamophobic.' <ref> Peter Stanford [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10778554/The-feisty-baroness-defending-voiceless-Muslim-women.html The feisty baroness defending 'voiceless’ Muslim women], ''The Telegraph'', 22 April 2014. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>
 In another interview with ''The Telegraph'', this time in 2015, she spoke of her bill again, saying:

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	[[Lord Faulks]], the justice minister, highlighted a government review of the operation of Sharia Councils but said in 2015 that new laws were not needed as there are already protections in common law and existing legislation. <ref name=childreneach/>		[[Lord Faulks]], the justice minister, highlighted a government review of the operation of Sharia Councils but said in 2015 that new laws were not needed as there are already protections in common law and existing legislation. <ref name=childreneach/>
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		+	===Meeting with Bashar al-Assad===
		+	Baroness Cox visited Damascus as part of a British delegation in September 2016, where she met and spoke with [[Bashar al-Assad]] for a 'bid to appeal to protect the lives of Christians in Syria'. <ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37318627 UK peers and Christian leaders met Bashar Al-Assad], ''BBC News'', 9 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>
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		+	She gave an interview with ''RT News'' in which she said that President Assad himself wants to see democratic change and a strong civil society in the country, but believes that’s unrealistic at the moment unless the threat posed by Islamists is eliminated and Western pressure on the government is stopped.
		+	:'We met two of the ministers in the opposition, unarmed opposition – of course they criticize him, they would want to change this – but they support the president at the present time because he protects the country and their freedoms from the Islamist terrorism.'
		+	She continued by saying that 'the people of Syria were immensely grateful for Russian support which helps them to protect themselves from this Islamist terrorism'.
		+	:'Therefore I hope very much that there will be some progress in moving towards the elimination of the Islamist armed groups, [...] [I hope] that Syria can have the peace and help it needs to develop a civil society, and freedom to choose their own leadership and not interference in a very unhelpful way from Western powers.' <ref> [https://www.rt.com/uk/358815-cox-meeting-assad-syria/ ‘Peace in Syria can’t be reached through Western interference’ - UK’s Baroness Cox to RT], ''RT News'', 9 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>

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