Helle Merete Brix

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Helle Merete Brix
Born (1959-12-30) 30 December 1959 (age 64)
NationalityDanish
Occupations
  • Author
  • journalist
  • literary critic
Website hellemeretebrix.com/english/

Helle Merete Brix (born 30 December 1959) [1] is a Danish author, journalist and literary critic. [2] She has been noted as a critic of Islam since the late 1990s, and was formerly associated with the Danish Free Press Society as editor of its online magazine Sappho until 2010, and was later a part of the Lars Vilks Committee. [2]

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Activities and writings

Brix has been noted as a writer strongly critical of Islam since at least 1999, [3] [4] although she was a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party until 2002. [5] She co-authored the book I krigens hus: Islams kolonisering af Vesten about Islam's "colonisation of the West" with Lars Hedegaard in 2003, [6] [7] which has been described as a part of the "Eurabia narrative". [3] She was formerly a member of Danish PEN, but left the organisation in 2004 after it objected to admit Hedegaard as a member. [8] Along with Hedegaard, Brix was later involved with several groupings, [9] as part of the counter-jihad movement. [10] [11]

She was on the board of advisors for Hedegaard's Danish Free Press Society from 2005 to 2007, chief editor of its online magazine Sappho from 2005 to 2010, and on the board of advisors of the International Free Press Society founded in 2009. [12] In 2008 she wrote the book Mod mørket. Det Muslimske Broderskab i Europa discussing the Muslim Brotherhood's activities in Europe. [13] [14] [15] She had left the Danish Free Press Society by the early 2010s, after considering it too irreconcilable to differing viewpoints, [16] and became a literary critic for Weekendavisen . [17]

Brix co-founded the Lars Vilks Committee in 2012, which was established in support of Swedish artist Lars Vilks, known for his Muhammad drawings controversy. [18] In 2015, she was an organiser of the cultural event that was attacked by an Islamist terrorist in the Copenhagen shootings at the Krudttønden cultural centre, during which she hid under a table and in a storage room together with Vilks. [19] [20] [21] The Lars Vilks Committee was dissolved in the late 2010s. [18]

She published the book Gud og Profeten tilgiver ikke. En personlig beretning om terrorangrebet på Krudttønden in 2016 as a personal account of the terror attack at Krudttønden, and in 2018 published the book Blandt kolibrier og kalsjnikover. Om terrorens ofre about victims and people affected by terror attacks. [22]

Personal life

Brix is a Buddhist, who converted to the religion after an interview with Lama Ole Nydahl in 1994, who she also says inspired her criticism of Islam. [23]

Bibliography

Theatre plays

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  2. 1 2 Gargiulo, Susanne; Botelho, Greg; Almasy, Steve (15 February 2015). "Copenhagen attacks: Police kill man during shootout". CNN.
  3. 1 2 Doyle, Natalie; Ahmad, Irfan, eds. (2019). (Il)liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization. Routledge. pp. 125, 146. ISBN   9781351850896.
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