Anne Marie Waters
Anne Marie Walters is the founder and spokesperson of Sharia Watch UK, was briefly a UK Independence Party (UKIP) parliamentary candidate and remained a member in January 2015.
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History
Water previously worked for One Law For All which would later issued a statement condemning her.[1]
She was formerly a Labour Party member and in summer 2013 was nearly selected as a parliamentary candidate. After failing to be selected as a Labour candidate she joined UKIP.
In April 2014 she launched the organistion Sharia Watch UK and in May 2014 announced that she would stand as its candidate for Basildon and Billericay[2] but she appears to have been subsequently de-selected, in approximately October 2014.[1]
Activities
Sharia Watch UK
Waters founded Sharia Watch UK in April 2014. Its launch event took place in the House of Lords, hosted by Baroness Cox, a peer who has previously invited far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders to show his anti-Islam film Fitna in the Lords. Charlie Klendjian of the Lawyers Secular Society also spoke.
Counterjihad connections
Lars Hedegaard
In June 2014, Waters shared a platform in Copenhagen with Lars Hedegaard, the man behind the anti-Islam organisation the International Free Press Society. A video of the event- the launch of a Swedish edition of Hedegaard’s book Muhammad’s Girls: Violence, Murder and Rape in the House of Islam - shows her sitting next to the Dane, who was convicted of hate speech in 2011 after stating that ‘Muslims rape their children’, though he successfully appealed this conviction, on ‘free speech’ grounds, the following year. Chairing the event was Ingrid Carlqvist, a key member of the Swedish counterjihad network. Also on the panel was psychologist Nicolai Sennels of the far-right Danish People’s Party and the video was produced by Dispatch International (DI), a mouthpiece for the counterjihad movement – for which Waters has written extensively – founded by Hedegaard and Carlqvist.[1]
Alan Ayling
In a series of videos taken in October 2014 at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, which show Waters and others delivering diatribes against Islam, former English Defence League financier and strategist Alan Ayling (aka Alan Lake) could be seen in the group that appeared to be supporting her. Waters did not respond to repeated requests to clarify her relationship with Ayling.[1]
Views
In an Oxford Union debate in February 2013 she spoke against the motion 'This house believes Islam is a religion of peace'.[1]
- Sharia Law and Human Rights – Anne Marie Waters at Queen Mary University, personal website, October 2014
Affiliations
- Sharia Watch UK - spokesperson
- UKIP - member and former parliamentary candidate in 2014
- One Law For All - former employee
- Labour Party - former member
- Lawyers Secular Society
- National Secular Society
Contact
- Website http://www.annemariewaters.org/
Resources
- Sharia Watch UK and the Metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters, Institute of Race Relations, 21 January 2015
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sharia Watch UK and the Metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters, Institute of Race Relations, 21 January 2015
- ↑ Why I am proud to stand for UKIP, personal website, July 2014, acc Nov 2014
