New English Review

(Not to be confused with The English Review, 1908-1937)
New English Review |Subject |Discipline}}| Literature

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Language| English
Edited by| Rebecca Bynum
Publication details
History| 2006–present
Publisher|

World Encounter Institute

Frequency| Monthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM * MathSciNet
ISO 4| New Engl. Rev.
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR * LCCN
MIAR * NLM * Scopus
OCLC no.| 608163485
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* Journal homepage

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]

## Profile

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]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mission Statement". World Encounter Institute. https://www.newenglishreview.org/world-encounter-institute/. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carr, Julie (2021-02-10). "Nashville Based New English Review Publisher and Editor Rebecca Bynum Talks Business and Conservative Media" (in en-US). https://tennesseestar.com/2021/02/10/nashville-based-new-english-review-publisher-and-editor-rebecca-bynum-talks-business-and-conservative-media/.
3. ↑ Smietana, Bob. "Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear" (in en-US). https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2010/10/24/antimuslim-crusaders-make-millions-spreading-fear/28936467/.
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) (in en). Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia. London: Zed Books. pp. 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. pp. 181.
8. ↑ Turner, Joe (2020) (in en-UK). Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family. Theory for a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 149.
9. ↑ Cockbain, Ella; Tufail, Waqas (January 2020). "Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the 'Muslim grooming gangs' narrative" (in en). Race & Class 61 (3): 9, 25. doi:10.1177/0306396819895727. ISSN 0306-3968. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087386/.
10. ↑ Ul-Haq, Shoaib; Westwood, Robert (March 2012). "The politics of knowledge, epistemological occlusion and Islamic management and organization knowledge" (in en). Organization 19 (2): 251. doi:10.1177/1350508411429399. ISSN 1350-5084.
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): pp. 245, ISBN 978-1-107-03957-5, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/religious-offence-and-human-rights/defining-defamation/F67757AC06912C9CC339FA946F41A7F1
12. ↑ The American far-right origins of Pauline Hanson's views on Islam. The Australia Institute, 29 January 2017

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