Ingrid Carlqvist
Ingrid Carlqvist is a Swedish journalist and counterjihad activist.
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History
Accordinig to Carlqvist's LinkedIn page, she previously worked at Punkt SE from 2006 to 2008 and Aftonbladet, 2010 - 2011.[1]
Activities
Carlqvist founded the Swedish Free Press Society, an offshoot of the original Danish Free Press Society, started by her close associate Lars Hedegaard.[2]
She spoke at the Brussels Counterjihad 2012 conference.
At the conference the launch of Dispatch International, intended to be a mouthpiece for the counterjihad movement, was announced. It is believed to have been founded by Carlqvist with Lars Hedegaard.[3] Carlqvist's LinkedIn page states that she had been 'editor in chief' since 2012.[1]
She has interviewed many other counterjihad activists for Dispatch International, including Henrik Rönnquist[4] and Tommy Robinson.[5]
In June 2014, she chaired an event in Copenhagen to launch a Swedish edition of Lars Hedegaard’s book 'Muhammad’s Girls: Violence, Murder and Rape in the House of Islam' that also featured Anne Marie Waters, from Sharia Watch UK and Nicolai Sennels, who would later start Pegida Denmark.[6]
Views
In an interview with the website Jihad Watch in February 2012 Carlqvist reportedly claimed that 'Islam is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the world today.'[2]
Affiliations
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ingrid Carlqvist, LinkedIn, accessed 13 January 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hope Not Hate, Ingrid Carlqvist, Counterjihad Map: Sweden, accessed 13 February 2015
- ↑ Torbjörn Jerlerup, Dispatch International: CounterJihad Publishes a Paper, LoonWatch, 6 September 2012, accessed 13 February 2015
- ↑ Ingrid Carlqvist, Gallery owner in shock – wants to leave Sweden, Dispatch International, 5 July 2014, accessed 13 February 2015
- ↑ Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard, Tommy Robinson’s long journey has only begun, Dispatch International, 5 November 2013.
- ↑ Sharia Watch UK and the metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters, Institute of Race Relations, 21 January 2015
