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The magazine was funded by Roy Bishko, owner of Tie Rack. [2] Editor Rebecca Bynum was a long-time collaborator with Robert B. Spencer, a noted far-right Islamophobe activist, before heralding NER. [2] [3]

Reception

Sveinung Sandberg, a criminologist at the University of Oslo, notes Anders Breivik to have been inspired and motivated by anti-Islamic discourse on sites including NER. [4] Sindre Bangstad, a social anthropologist at University of Oslo, described the site as a "counter-jihadist publication" in discussing how the spread of Islamophobia within right-wing political networks of Norway had birthed Breivik. [5] Joel Busher, a sociologist at the Coventry University, found NER to be part of the broader counter-jihad ecosystem which lamented the "failings of Western liberalism" to resist the "cultural loss" of Europe in the wake of increasing Muslim immigration; it hosted content that was sympathetic to the English Defence League, a far-right, Islamophobic organization in the United Kingdom. [6]

Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociologist at American University who specializes in far-right extremism, notes the journal to have platformed favorable reviews of Bat Ye'or's works propounding Eurabia — a far-right anti-Muslim conspiracy theory, involving globalist entities allegedly led by French and Arab powers, to Islamise and Arabise Europe. [7] Joe Turner, a political scientist at the University of York, found Peter McLoughlin's monograph on grooming in UK, published by the press in 2016, to be intimately linked with Islamophobia and white nationalism — McLoughlin was more anxious about protecting "white Britishness" from "Islam" than individual bodies. [8] Ella Cockbain, a criminologist at University College London, found the book to be far-right propaganda in that it accused the entire Muslim community of colluding with the groomers and took digs at multiculturalism; NER itself was described as a "conservative magazine heavily involved in the 'counter-jihad' movement". [9]

Bynum's monograph on why Islam is not a religion, published by the press in 2011, has been noted to fuel Islamophobia. [10] Lorenz Langer, a professor of law at University of Zurich, noted her to be among those who made a living by "churning out alarmist accounts of the threat that Islam poses to the Occident". [11] Philip Dorling, while describing the attempts by Pauline Hanson's One Nation to have Islam unconsidered as a religion, found synonymities with Bynum, editor of the "far-right" NER. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mission Statement". New English Review. World Encounter Institute. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Carr, Julie (February 10, 2021). "Nashville Based New English Review Publisher and Editor Rebecca Bynum Talks Business and Conservative Media". Tennessee Star. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  3. ↑ Smietana, Bob. "Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear". The Tennessean. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  4. ↑ Sveinung Sandberg (2013). "Are self-narratives strategic or determined, unified or fragmented? Reading Breivik's Manifesto in light of narrative criminology". Acta Sociologica . 56 (1): 74.
  5. ↑ Bagstad, Sindre (2014). Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia. London: Zed Books. p. 149.
  6. ↑ Joel Busher (October 23, 2015). The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest. Taylor & Francis. p. 85.
  7. ↑ Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (2020). Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Princeton University Press. p. 181.
  8. ↑ Turner, Joe (2020). Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family. Theory for a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 149.
  9. ↑ Cockbain, Ella; Tufail, Waqas (January 2020). "Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the 'Muslim grooming gangs' narrative". Race & Class. 61 (3): 9, 25. doi:10.1177/0306396819895727. ISSN   0306-3968. S2CID   214197388.
  10. ↑ Ul-Haq, Shoaib; Westwood, Robert (March 2012). "The politics of knowledge, epistemological occlusion and Islamic management and organization knowledge". Organization. 19 (2): 251. doi:10.1177/1350508411429399. ISSN   1350-5084. S2CID   146456601.
  11. ↑ Langer, Lorenz (2014), "Defining defamation", Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 245, ISBN   978-1-107-03957-5
  12. ↑ The American far-right origins of Pauline Hanson's views on Islam. The Australia Institute, 29 January 2017
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