The New English Review is an online monthly magazine of cultural criticism, published from Nashville, Tennessee, since February 2006.[1] Scholars note the magazine to have platformed a range of far-right Islamophobic discourse including conspiracy theories. An eponymous press is run by the same publisher.[1]
| Discipline | Literature |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Rebecca Bynum |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2006–present |
| Publisher | World Encounter Institute |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | New Engl. Rev. |
| Indexing | |
| OCLC no. | 608163485 |
| Links | |
Profile
editThe magazine was funded by Roy Bishko, owner of Tie Rack.[2] Editor Rebecca Bynum was a long-time collaborator with Robert Spencer, a noted far-right Islamophobe activist, before heralding NER.[2][3]
Reception
editSveinung 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]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mission Statement". New English Review. World Encounter Institute. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Smietana, Bob. "Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear". The Tennessean. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bagstad, Sindre (2014). Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia. London: Zed Books. p. 149.
- ^ Joel Busher (October 23, 2015). The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest. Taylor & Francis. p. 85.
- ^ Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (2020). Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Princeton University Press. p. 181.
- ^ Turner, Joe (2020). Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family. Theory for a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 149.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ The American far-right origins of Pauline Hanson's views on Islam. The Australia Institute, 29 January 2017