New English Review
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| discipline = Literature
| language = English
| editor = Rebecca Bynum
| publisher = World Encounter Institute
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| history = 2006–present
| frequency = Monthly
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| OCLC = 608163485
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The New English Review is an online monthly magazine of cultural criticism, published from Nashville, Tennessee, since February 2006.{{cite web |title=Mission Statement |url=https://www.newenglishreview.org/world-encounter-institute/ |website=New English Review |publisher=World Encounter Institute |accessdate=2 March 2019}} 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.
Profile
The magazine was funded by Roy Bishko, owner of Tie Rack.{{Cite web |last=Carr |first=Julie |date=2021-02-10 |title=Nashville Based New English Review Publisher and Editor Rebecca Bynum Talks Business and Conservative Media |url=https://tennesseestar.com/2021/02/10/nashville-based-new-english-review-publisher-and-editor-rebecca-bynum-talks-business-and-conservative-media/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Tennessee Star |language=en-US}} Editor Rebecca Bynum was a long-time collaborator with Robert Spencer, a noted far-right Islamophobe activist, before heralding NER.{{Cite web |last=Smietana |first=Bob |title=Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2010/10/24/antimuslim-crusaders-make-millions-spreading-fear/28936467/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=The Tennessean |language=en-US}}
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.{{cite journal |author=Sveinung Sandberg |year=2013 |title=Are self-narratives strategic or determined, unified or fragmented? Reading Breivik's Manifesto in light of narrative criminology |journal=Acta Sociologica |volume=56 |issue=1 |page=74}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Bagstad |first=Sindre |title=Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia |publisher=Zed Books |year=2014 |location=London |pages=149 |language=en}} 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.{{cite book|title=The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest|author=Joel Busher|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=October 23, 2015|page=85}}
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.{{Cite book |last=Miller-Idriss |first=Cynthia |title=Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2020 |pages=181}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Joe |title=Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2020 |series=Theory for a Global Age |location=Manchester |pages=149 |language=en-UK}} 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".{{Cite journal |last1=Cockbain |first1=Ella |last2=Tufail |first2=Waqas |date=January 2020 |title=Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the 'Muslim grooming gangs' narrative |journal=Race & Class |language=en |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=9, 25 |doi=10.1177/0306396819895727 |s2cid=214197388 |issn=0306-3968|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087386/ }}
Bynum's monograph on why Islam is not a religion, published by the press in 2011, has been noted to fuel Islamophobia.{{Cite journal |last1=Ul-Haq |first1=Shoaib |last2=Westwood |first2=Robert |date=March 2012 |title=The politics of knowledge, epistemological occlusion and Islamic management and organization knowledge |url= |journal=Organization |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=251 |doi=10.1177/1350508411429399 |s2cid=146456601 |issn=1350-5084}} 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".{{Citation |last=Langer |first=Lorenz |title=Defining defamation |date=2014 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/religious-offence-and-human-rights/defining-defamation/F67757AC06912C9CC339FA946F41A7F1 |work=Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions |pages=245 |series=Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03957-5}} 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.[https://apo.org.au/node/72452 The American far-right origins of Pauline Hanson's views on Islam]. The Australia Institute, 29 January 2017