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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 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. Editor Rebecca Bynum was a long-time collaborator with Robert Spencer, a noted far-right Islamophobe activist, before heralding NER.

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. 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 Eurabia — 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". Philip Dorling, 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

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