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ism, published from

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, since February 2006. Scholars note the magazine to have platformed a range of

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Islamophobic Islamophobia is the fear of, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or a source of terrorism. The scope and precise definition of the term ''Islamophobia'' ...

discourse including conspiracy theories. An eponymous press is run by the same publisher.

Profile

The magazine was funded by Roy Bishko, owner of

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. Editor Rebecca Bynum was a long-time collaborator with

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, a noted far-right Islamophobe activist, before heralding NER.

Reception

Sveinung Sandberg, a criminologist at the University of Oslo, notes

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to have been inspired and motivated by anti-Islamic discourse on sites including NER. Sindre Bangstad, a social anthropologist at University of Oslo, described the site as a "

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ist publication" in discussing how the spread of Islamophobia within right-wing political networks of Norway had birthed Breivik. Joel Busher, a sociologist at the

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, 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

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, a far-right, Islamophobic organization in the United Kingdom. Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociologist at

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who specializes in far-right extremism, notes the journal to have platformed favorable reviews of

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's works propounding

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— a far-right anti-Muslim

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, involving globalist entities allegedly led by French and Arab powers, to Islamise and Arabise Europe. Joe Turner, a political scientist at the

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, 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. Ella Cockbain, a criminologist at

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, 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". Bynum's monograph on why Islam is not a religion, published by the press in 2011, has been noted to fuel Islamophobia. Lorenz Langer, a professor of law at

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, noted her to be among those who made a living by "churning out alarmist accounts of the threat that Islam poses to the Occident".

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, while describing the attempts by

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to have Islam unconsidered as a religion, found synonymities with Bynum, editor of the "far-right" NER.The American far-right origins of Pauline Hanson's views on Islam
''The Australia Institute'', 29 January 2017

References

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