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Douglas Murray
Murray in 2019
Murray in 2019
BornDouglas Kear Murray
(1979-07-16) 16 July 1979 (age 45)
London, England
Occupation
  • Author
  • political commentator
Education
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Period2000–present
Subject
  • Politics
  • culture
  • history
Notable works
Website
douglasmurray.net

Douglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979)[1] is a British intellectual, author, and political commentator.[2][3][4][5] He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. He is also an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.[6][7] Murray has also written columns for publications such as The Wall Street Journal.

Murray's books include Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005), Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011) about the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017), The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019), and The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022).

Ayaan Hirsi Ali[8] and Sohrab Ahmari have praised Murray's work and writing on Islam in Europe.[9] French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has said of Murray, "Whether one agrees with him or not" he is "one of the most important public intellectuals today."[10] Critics claim his views and ideology are linked to far-right political ideologies[11][12] and accuse him of promoting far-right conspiracy theories.[13][14][15] Murray has rejected descriptions of his politics as far-right[16] and believes that the term "far-right" is overused by the political left.[17]

Early life

Murray was born and raised in Hammersmith, London, by an English, civil servant mother, and a Scottish, Gaelic-speaking school teacher father. He has one elder brother.[2][18][dead link]

Murray was educated at West Bridgford School in Nottinghamshire and was awarded a music scholarship at St Benedict's School, Ealing[19] and later at Eton College,[18][20] before going on to study English at Magdalen College, Oxford.[21]

Publications

At age 19, while in his second year at the University of Oxford, Murray published[22] Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas,[21] which was described by Christopher Hitchens as "masterly".[23] Bosie was awarded a Lambda Award for a gay biography in 2000.[24] After leaving Oxford, Murray wrote a play, Nightfall, about the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.[25]

In 2006, Murray published a defence of neoconservatism – Neoconservatism: Why We Need It – and went on a speaking tour promoting the book in the United States.[25] The publication was subsequently reviewed in the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat by the Iranian author Amir Taheri: "Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas."[26] In 2007, he assisted in the writing of Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership by Gen. Dr. Klaus Naumann, Gen. John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal The Lord Inge, Adm. Jacques Lanxade, and Gen. Henk van den Breemen.[27] His book Bloody Sunday was (jointly) awarded the 2011–2012 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.[28] In June 2013, Murray's e-book Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady was published.[29]

In 2017, Murray published The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, which spent almost 20 weeks on The Sunday Times bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide.[30][31] In The Strange Death of Europe, Murray argued that Europe "is committing suicide" by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its "faith in its beliefs".[32] The book received a polarized response from critics. Juliet Samuel of The Telegraph praised Murray, saying that: "His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute."[33] An academic review in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs acclaimed the book as "explosive" and "an elegantly written, copiously documented exposé of Europe's suicidal hypocrisy".[34] Rod Liddle of The Sunday Times called the book "a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book".[35] Conversely, other reviews of the book were highly negative. Writing in The New York Times, Pankaj Mishra described the book as "a handy digest of far-right clichés".[36] Mishra accused Murray of defending Pegida, of writing that the English Defence League "had a point", and of describing Viktor Orbán as a better sentinel of "European values" than George Soros.[36] Writing in The Intercept, Murtaza Hussain criticised what he called the "relentlessly paranoid tenor" and "apocalyptic picture of Europe" portrayed in the book, while challenging the links Murray makes between non-European immigration and large increases in crime.[37] In Middle East Eye, Georgetown professor Ian Almond called the book "a staggeringly one-sided flow of statistics, interviews and examples, reflecting a clear decision to make the book a rhetorical claim that Europe is doomed to self-destruction".[38]

Murray wrote about social justice and identity politics in his 2019 book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity which became a Sunday Times bestseller.[39][40] It was also nominated as an audio book of the year for the British Book Awards.[41] In the book, Murray points to what he sees as a cultural shift, away from established modes of religion and political ideology, in which various forms of victimhood can provide markers of social status.[42] He divides his book into sections dealing with different forms of victimhood, including types of LGBT identity, feminism and racial politics.[43] Murray criticises the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault for what he sees as a reduction of society to a system of power relations.[44] Murray's book drew polarized responses from critics. Tim Stanley in The Daily Telegraph praised the book, calling Murray "a superbly perceptive guide through the age of the social justice warrior".[45] Katie Law in the Evening Standard said that Murray "tackled another necessary and provocative subject with wit and bravery".[46] Conversely, William Davies gave a highly critical review of Murray's work in The Guardian, describing the book as "the bizarre fantasies of a rightwing provocateur, blind to oppression".[47]

In 2021 Murray published The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason. The book was characterised by Gerard Baker as an examination of attempts to destroy Western civilisation from sources within.[48] The book also argues that westerners are waging war against whiteness.[49]

Media career

Murray being interviewed on the Mark Steyn Show in 2019

Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator.[50][51]

In 2016, Murray organised a competition through The Spectator in which entrants were invited to submit offensive poems about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a top prize of £1,000 donated by a reader.[52] This was in reaction to the Böhmermann affair, in which German satirist Jan Böhmermann was prosecuted under the German penal code for such a poem.[53] His book Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry, had been longlisted for the 2012 Orwell Book Prize.[54] He announced the winner of the poetry competition as Conservative MP Boris Johnson (former editor of the magazine, former Mayor of London).[55]

In April, 2019, Murray spent weeks urging New Statesman journalist George Eaton and editor Jason Cowley to share the original recording of an interview between Eaton and Roger Scruton, with Murray branding the published interview – which attributed a number of controversial statements to Scruton – as "journalistic dishonesty".[56] Murray eventually managed to acquire the recording, which formed the basis of an article in the Spectator defending Scruton, arguing that his remarks had been misinterpreted.[57][58] It is unclear how Murray obtained the recording.[59] The New Statesman subsequently apologized for Eaton's misrepresentation.[60][61][62]

Murray has written columns for The Daily Telegraph,[63] National Review[64] The Wall Street Journal,[65] UnHerd,[66] and New York Post.[67] In February 2022 Murray became a Fox News contributor.[68]

Political views

Murray has been described as a conservative,[69] a neoconservative[70][71][72] a regular critic of Immigration,[73] and Islam.[74]

Islam

Murray is a frequent critic of Islam, saying that there is "a creed of Islamic fascism – a malignant fundamentalism, woken from the Dark Ages to assault us here and now".[75] In the wake of the 2017 London Bridge attack, Murray stated in a radio interview:

We've fallen into the idea that answer [to terrorism] is more Islam. This is the argument of the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups. 'You don't like this Islam? Well we've got some other Islam, or different Islam.' And I just say, look, we need a bit less Islam.[76]

In 2008, Murray listed the cases of 27 writers, activists, politicians and artists – including Sir Salman Rushdie, Maryam Namazie and Anwar Shaikh, all three of whom had received death threats due to their criticism of Islam. Murray said that "Unless Muslims are allowed to discuss their religion without fear of attack there can be no chance of reform or genuine freedom of conscience within Islam."[77]

In February 2006, speaking at the "Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference on Europe and Islam", Murray said that the "crisis in Islamic-Western relations" lay in:

a putting onto the right track of the fundamental problems of the Islamic world – the reasons, after all, why so many Muslims come to the West in the first place. Foremost among those reasons are the fact that (with the exceptions of the fledgling democracies of Iraq and Afghanistan) their own historical lands are presently run by despots, crackpots and crime-syndicate families. Until the Middle East and other Islamic lands have a greater measure of freedom, the West can barely be surprised that even fairly hardline Islamists will continue to be desperate to join the welfare-wagon in the West.[78]

He continued:

Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition… From long before we were first attacked it should have been made plain that people who come into Europe are here under our rules and not theirs… Where a mosque has become a centre of hate it should be closed and pulled down. If that means that some Muslims don't have a mosque to go to, then they'll just have to realise that they aren't owed one.[78][79]

After Murray refused Paul Goodman's offer to disown these comments, the Conservative Party frontbench severed formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion.[80]

In 2010, Murray argued against the motion in an Intelligence Squared US debate titled "Is Islam a Religion of Peace?"[81]

Murray has described Islamophobia as a "nonsense term" and in 2013 argued "a phobia is something of which one is irrationally afraid. Yet it is supremely rational to be scared of elements of Islam and of its fundamentalist strains in particular. Nevertheless, the term has been very successfully deployed, not least because it has the aura of a smear. Islamophobes are not only subject to an irrational and unnecessary fear; they are assumed to be motivated (because most Muslims in the West are from an ethnic minority) by "racism". Who would not recoil from such charges?"[82]

In 2009, Murray was prevented from chairing a debate at the London School of Economics between Alan Sked and Hamza Tzortzis on the topic "Islam or Liberalism: Which is the Way Forward?", with the university citing security concerns following a week-long student protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza. The debate took place without Murray chairing.[83] The move was criticised by the conservative press such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.[84][85][86]

In June 2009, Murray accepted an invitation to a debate with Anjem Choudary, leader of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, on the subject of Sharia law and British law at Conway Hall. Members of Al-Muhajiroun acting as security guards tried to segregate men and women at the entrance of the event. Clashes broke out near the entrance between Choudary's and Murray's supporters and Conway Hall cancelled the debate because of the attempted forced separation of men and women. Outside the building, a confrontation between Choudary and Murray over the cancellation of the event occurred.[87] Murray's Centre for Social Cohesion later published a study arguing that one in seven Islam-related terrorist cases in the UK could be linked to Al-Muhajiroun.[88]

Murray has argued in defence of Muslim reformers in his writing.[89][90] In 2021, he criticised Islamists who celebrated and supported the demise of the counter-extremism Quilliam Foundation thinktank in Britain, claiming "Some of this country's best citizens, who happened also to be Muslims, gave Islamic reform a good shot here. But it was they – and not their critics – who as a result became the principal target."[91]

Brexit

Murray supported the 'Leave' side in the UK's 2016 EU referendum, citing concerns with the Eurozone, immigration and the prospect of ever-closer union.[92] In a 2016 article for The Spectator, Murray asserted "I am not the world's most ardent Brexiteer. I voted to leave because I could see what the EU now wanted to become, and whether or not that direction was right for the rest of the continent, it was not right for the UK." In the wake of the Brexit vote, Murray expressed concern that the result "has just not been accepted by an elite" and said that the result "should be celebrated by anybody who actually believes in democracy".[93]

Immigration

Murray has been described as a vocal critic of immigration.[94] In March 2013, Murray claimed that London was a foreign country due to "white britons" becoming a minority in 23 of 33 London boroughs.[95][96] In Murray's book The Strange Death of Europe, he writes that Europe and its values are dying due to mass immigration and in the opening pages calls for halting Muslim immigration. In the book Murray also details crimes committed by immigrants in Europe and writes favourably of immigration hard liner Viktor Orban.[97][98]

In 2018, Murray filmed a video for PragerU entitled "The Suicide of Europe". Writing in the news website Sludge, journalist Alex Koch described the video as "evok[ing] the common white nationalist trope of white genocide with its rhetoric of 'suicide' and 'annihilation'."[99] Koch interviewed a senior editor at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, Mark Pitcavage, who stated that there was "almost certainly prejudice in the video" and that it was "filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric".[99] Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center described the video as a "dog whistle to the extreme right".[100]

In September 2016, Murray supported Donald Trump's proposal for a wall along the southern border of the United States.[101] In January 2017, Murray wrote an article defending Executive Order 13769 which banned entry to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.[102] In September 2022, Murray supported Florida governor Ron DeSantis sending illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and criticised vice President Kamala Harris for saying the border is "secure" despite the fact 2 million illegal migrants entered the US.[103]

Gender and sexuality

Murray is gay and is a supporter of same-sex marriage.[104][105] However, Murray has said that he believes that homosexuality “is an unstable component on which to base an individual identity and a hideously unstable way to try and base any form of group identity".[106] In his book Madness of crowds, Murray defends voluntarily conversion therapy and asserts that Homophobia has mostly been vanquished.[107][108]

Murray has said that it is a lie that a man can become a woman.[109] In September 2020 during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast Murray compared accepting trans people to “late-empire sign of things falling apart”.[110] Murray opposes gender pronouns, transgenders competing in sports, and trans surgeries for children.[111][112] Murray has stated that he thinks there is no such thing as non-binary gender. In September 2019 Murray said in a interview that women are held to a different standard than men when he comes to sexual behavior citing instances involving Drew Barrymore, Jane Fonda, and Mayim Bialik making unwanted sexual advances towards men without backlash from the media.[113] In his book Murray has said that women want to be sexy without being sexualized and has called this an "unresolvable challenge and an impossible demand".[114] Murray is a critic of feminism and has said that “feminism isn’t producing guides for helping men. It is producing manifestos for torturing them”.[115][failed verification]

Foreign policy

In his book Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, Murray argues that neoconservatism is necessary for fighting against dictatorships and human rights abuses.[116] Murray has called for continuing the War on terror on Iran, Syria, and any regime which supports terrorism.[117] He has also said that he believes that the political left or right have no desire for foreign interventions since John McCain's death.[118]

Murray supported the Iraq War and wrote in 2004 "Iraq may be the big intervention of this generation. Success means the success of the Iraqi nation in a region of failing states and unprecedented freedom for a nation previously cowed by brutalism and ignored by pacifism. Failure means not only the failure of the Arab world to allow freedom and democracy to stick, and the failure of the civilized world to stand up to tyranny, but the failure and loss of many more lives in a country which finally found hope and a future".[119] On December 16, 2017, Murray criticised a decision by the High Court to award large payments to Iraqi civilians who claimed they had been mistreated while detained by British soldiers.[120]

On June 24, 2013, Murray wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal opposing the U.S intervention in the Syrian civil war.[121] In 2021 Murray chastised the Biden administration for withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and for attempting to portray the withdrawal as a success.[122][123]

In 2013, Murray criticised reporter Owen Jones for mistakenly saying that Israel had killed a 11 month old child in a military strike. Jones responded by criticizing Murray for ignoring a UN report which reported an Israel airstrike had killed numerous innocent civilians.[124] In 2014, Murray defended and supported Israel during 2014 Isreal-Gaza conflict.[125] Murray also defended Israel right to defend itself saying "If you don't believe that Israel has the right to stop a group that has proposed repeatedly since its existence that it wants to annihilate Israel, if you believe that Israel doesn't have the right to try and stop this enemy, then of course you don't believe Israel has the right to exist, you believe Israel has the right to die".[126] During a visit to Israel in 2019, Murray praised Israeli society, saying that Israel "has a healthier attitude towards nationalism than Europe" and lauded Israel's restrictive approach to immigration.[127] In 2019 Murray supported the Trump administration's decision to formally recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.[128]

In May 2020, Murray rebuked people labelling the COVID-19 lab leak theory, a theory which states that COVID-19 came from a lab in China, as a Conspiracy theory.[129] Murray has advocated for punishing China for their role in allowing COVID-19 into the United States.[130] Murray has also criticised TikTok referring to it as "a piece of malware from China" and accused the Chinese Communist Party of using it to corrupt society.[131]

Donald Trump

In November 2016 Murray questioned US Democrats calling Trump sexist, homophobic, and racist as they had also attempted to portray Mitt Romney and John McCain in the same way. Murray also said that Trump's foreign policy plans were less provocative than Hillary Clinton's would have been.[132]

Ahead of the 2020 United States presidential election, Murray argued that while Trump had personality flaws and enacted certain policies he didn't agree with, his re-election would be more beneficial for the United Kingdom in terms of foreign policy and Brexit over a Biden administration.[133] Murray praised Trump for having brokered the Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement,[134] and wrote of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani: "American forces took out Iran's leading general, a man who had overseen the deaths of countless numbers of British and American troops, not to mention Iraqi and other civilians in the area, and Iran took it. Not least because they seemed to fear that they were dealing with a madman".[134]

In 2021, Murray criticised the January 6 United States Capitol attack perpetrated by supporters of Trump and said that Trump alone was responsible for stoking the riot.[135]

In 2022, Murray reiterated his criticism of Trump's behaviour following the Capitol riot but argued some Democratic Party politicians were contradictory in condemning the violence and claiming the riots were a danger to democracy after they had endorsed the rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement during the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd and Hillary Clinton's claims that the 2016 election had been stolen. Murray also argued that the Trump administration had enacted strong policies in regard to immigration, Iran, and China and it would be a strategic mistake of the Biden administration to reverse them.[136] However, Murray has also asserted that the Republican Party should distance itself from Trump's stolen election theories and not seek 2024 primary candidates based on Trump's personal approval if it is to win the next presidential election.[137]

Viktor Orbán

Murray is known for his association with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In March 2018, Orbán posted a photo on his official Facebook account of himself reading the Hungarian-language edition of The Strange Death of Europe.[138][139] Murray has disputed the claim that Hungary is experiencing significant democratic backsliding under Orbán, and has called Freedom House's comparisons of Orbán's government to a dictatorship as "increasingly off-kilter".[140] In May 2018, Murray was personally received by Orbán in Budapest as part of the "Future of Europe" conference along with other conservative figures like Steve Bannon, and according to Hungarian state media had an individual discussion and photograph with Orbán.[141][142]

Other activities

Murray is on the international advisory board of NGO Monitor,[143] a Jerusalem-based NGO which was founded in 2001 by Gerald M. Steinberg[144] and is described as pro-Israel and right-wing.[144][145] As of 2022, he is also one of the directors of the Free Speech Union,[146] an organization which was established by Toby Young in 2020, which speaks out against Cancel culture.[147]

Murray participates in the Intellectual Dark Web, a loosely affiliated group of commentators including Bret Weinstein, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, and Sam Harris.[148]

Criticism

A number of academic and journalistic sources have linked Murray's ideology and political views to the far right[149][150] the alt-right,[151] the Islamophobic[152] right or some combination thereof. Murray has also been accused of being xenophobic, chauvinist and racist, while he is regarded by others as "a great defender of free speech".[153]

Critics accuse Murray of putting a socially acceptable face on what would otherwise be considered fringe ideologies. In 2012, Arun Kundnani, who has written on radicalization, wrote in an article for Security and Human Rights that the "counterjihadist" ideology expressed by Murray and other conservative intellectuals was "through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse... able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence".[154] Nafeez Ahmed argued in Middle East Eye that Murray's support for free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks was "really just a ploy for far-right entryism".[155] In 2019, an article in Social Policy Review described Murray's views as a kind of "mainstreamist" ideology that defies easy categorization as extremist while remaining "entangled with the far right".[156]

Critics accuse Murray of promoting far-right conspiracy theories, including the Great Replacement theory,[157] the Eurabia conspiracy theory[158][159] and the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.[160] However, he has indicated that he dislikes the term "Cultural Marxism".[161]

Rebuttal by Murray

Murray has contended that he is frequently mislabelled politically, and that the mainstream right are unfairly conflated with the far-right in modern political discourse: he wrote in 2020 that in modern politics "up is down, [and] right is far-right".[16] In 2017, Murray argued in The Spectator that the term 'far right' is used far too often by the political left. He also has said that political parties previously identified as far-right should be recognised as being able to moderate their politics over time but has criticised some European parties that espouse what he considers to be genuinely extremist or hard-line policies.[17]

In another Spectator article in August 2019, Murray again criticised what he perceived as the overuse of terms like "far-right", this time in reference to commentators, saying that since the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote "there has been an acceleration in claimed sightings [of the far right] and a blurring of the definitions". He contended that this was "wrong not just because it means that perfectly decent people are maligned, but also because distinctly dangerous groups are confused with harmless ones".[162]

Personal life

Murray was a friend of late journalist Christopher Hitchens. After his passing he praised Hitchens as a writer, thinker, and speaker.[163]

Murray has described himself as atheist,[164] having been an Anglican until his twenties,[18][25] but has described himself variously as a cultural Christian[165] and a Christian atheist,[166] and believes that Christianity is an important influence on British and European culture.[18][167]

Works

  • Brandon, James; Murray, Douglas (2007), Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism (PDF), Westminster, UK: Centre for Social Cohesion.
  • Murray, Douglas (2000), Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, ISBN 0-340-76771-5.
  • ——— (2005), Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, ISBN 1-904863-05-1.
  • ——— (2007), Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership (PDF)
  • ———; Verwey, Johan Pieter (2008), Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech Within Europe's Muslim Communities (PDF), London, UK: Centre for Social Cohesion.
  • ——— (2011), Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry, London: Dialogue, ISBN 978-1-84954-149-7.
  • ——— (2013), Islamophilia: A Very Metropolitan Malady, emBooks, ISBN 978-1-62777050-7.
  • ——— (2017), The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-47294224-1.
  • ——— (2019), The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-47295995-9.
  • ——— (2022), The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, Harper Collins, ISBN 978-0063162020.

References

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    • Stewart, Blake (2020). "The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism". Critical Sociology. 46 (7–8): 1207–1220. doi:10.1177/0896920519894051. S2CID 213307100. Acclaim for Murray's thought has been widespread, and ranges from liberal French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, who claimed him to be 'one of the most important public intellectuals today', to authoritarian anti-immigrant hardliners such as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who went so far as to promote The Strange Death of Europe on his Facebook page in Spring 2018... Murray's book [The Madness of Crowds] remodels a much older theory of so-called 'cultural Marxism', which has long history in far-right thought.
    • Kundnani, Arun (2012). "Blind spot? Security narratives and far-right violence". Security and Human Rights. 23 (2): 129–146. doi:10.1163/18750230-99900008. Retrieved 2 January 2021. in January 2011, Douglas Murray, the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, which influences the government on national security policy, stated that, in relation to the EDL: 'If you were ever going to have a grassroots response from non-Muslims to Islamism, that would be how you'd want it, surely.' … these statements suggest that 'counterjihadist' ideologies, through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse, are able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence.
    • Lux, Julia; David Jordan, John (2019). "Alt-Right 'cultural purity' ideology and mainstream social policy discourse - Towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology". In Elke, Heins; James, Rees (eds.). Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019. Policy Press. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447343981.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4473-4400-1. S2CID 213019061. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Media pundit, journalist, and conspiracy entrepreneur Douglas Murray is a prime example of illustrating the influence of an 'organic intellectual'. Murray has written passionately in support of British fascist Tommy Robinson (Murray, 2018) and describes Islam as an "opportunistic infection" (Hasan, 2013) linked to the "strange death of Europe" (Murray, 2017a). Murray's ideas are not only entangled with the far-right (working class or otherwise), but with wider social connections.
    • Busher, Joel (2013). "Grassroots activism in the English Defence League: Discourse and public (dis) order". In Taylor, Max; Holbrook, Donald (eds.). Extreme Right Wing Political Violence and Terrorism. A&C Black. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4411-4087-6. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Popular commentators and public figures among the [EDL] activists that I have met include Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Melanie Philips, Andrew Gilligan, Douglas Murray, Pat Condell, and some of the commentators who contribute to forums like Alan Lake's Four Freedoms website.
    • Bloomfield, Jon (2020). "Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour". The Political Quarterly. 91 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12770. In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that.
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    • Kotch, Alex (27 December 2018). "Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content?". Sludge. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020. "Europe is committing suicide," says British author Douglas Murray in a video published by the far-right educational nonprofit Prager University. The cause? "The mass movement of peoples into Europe…from the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia" who allegedly made Europe lose faith in its beliefs and traditions
    • Hussain, Murtaza (25 December 2018). "The Far Right is obsessed with a book about Muslims destroying Europe. Here's what it gets wrong". The Intercept. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
    • Ahmed, Nafeez (9 March 2015). "White supremacists at the heart of Whitehall". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2021. Murray's screed against the free speech of those asking questions about the intelligence services is ironic given that in a separate Wall Street Journal comment, he laments that the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen prove the West is losing the war on "free speech" being waged by Islamists. But Murray's concerns about free speech are really just a ploy for far-right entryism.
  13. ^ Murray and the Eurabia conspiracy theory:
    • Pertwee, Ed (2020). "Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 211–230. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688. Ye'Or's Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis (2005) is the canonical work of the genre (Bangstad 2013; Larsson 2012), but extemporizations on her basic theme can be found in the work of many conservative writers during the late 2000s and 2010s, such as Melanie Phillips, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Douglas Murray and, more recently, Alt-Right-linked figures such as Lauren Southern and Raheem Kassam. The conclusive differentiator between counter-jihadist and more mainstream conservative laments about Western decline is the former's decidedly conspiratorial framing...
    • Yörükoğlu, Ilgın (2 July 2020). "We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security". Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies (E-Book). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. pp. 27–51. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1_2. ISBN 978-3-030-45172-1. S2CID 226723768. Retrieved 6 January 2021. It is not only far-right political parties and "alt-right" blogs that are fueling the fire of xenophobia. In our century, be it the Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on a Revolution in Europe (2009) that recapitulates the idea of a slow-moving Muslim barbarian invasion, along with the Muslim "disorder, penury and crime", or the works by Douglas Murray and Thilo Sarrazin (which I mention below), a number of European and American best sellers have supplied the emotional force to the Eurabia conspiracy in particular and the alt-right in general.
  14. ^ Murray and the Great Replacement conspiracy theory:
    • Ramakrishna, Kumar (2020). "The White Supremacist Terrorist Threat to Asia". Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses. 12 (4): 1–7. JSTOR 26918075. Retrieved 7 January 2021. This Great Replacement motif articulated by Murray, Camus and other prominent conservative intellectuals has been weaponised as a rallying cry for white supremacists around the world, including Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 and Tarrant, the Christchurch attacker, whose own manifesto posted online is called "The Great Replacement".
  15. ^ Murray and the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory:
    • Stewart, Blake (2020). "The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism". Critical Sociology. 46 (7–8): 1207–1220. doi:10.1177/0896920519894051. S2CID 213307100. Acclaim for Murray's thought has been widespread, and ranges from liberal French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, who claimed him to be 'one of the most important public intellectuals today', to authoritarian anti-immigrant hardliners such as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who went so far as to promote The Strange Death of Europe on his Facebook page in Spring 2018... Murray's book [The Madness of Crowds] remodels a much older theory of so-called 'cultural Marxism', which has long history in far-right thought.
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    • Stewart, Blake (2020). "The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism". Critical Sociology. 46 (7–8): 1207–1220. doi:10.1177/0896920519894051. S2CID 213307100. Acclaim for Murray's thought has been widespread, and ranges from liberal French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, who claimed him to be 'one of the most important public intellectuals today', to authoritarian anti-immigrant hardliners such as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who went so far as to promote The Strange Death of Europe on his Facebook page in Spring 2018... Murray's book [The Madness of Crowds] remodels a much older theory of so-called 'cultural Marxism', which has long history in far-right thought.
    • Kundnani, Arun (2012). "Blind spot? Security narratives and far-right violence". Security and Human Rights. 23 (2): 129–146. doi:10.1163/18750230-99900008. Retrieved 2 January 2021. in January 2011, Douglas Murray, … stated that, in relation to the EDL: 'If you were ever going to have a grassroots response from non-Muslims to Islamism, that would be how you'd want it, surely.' Both these statements suggest that 'counterjihadist' ideologies, through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse, are able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence.
    • Lux, Julia; Jordan, John David (2019). "Alt-Right 'cultural purity' ideology and mainstream social policy discourse - Towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology". In Elke, Heins; James, Rees (eds.). Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019. Policy Press. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447343981.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4473-4400-1. S2CID 213019061. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Media pundit, journalist, and conspiracy entrepreneur Douglas Murray is a prime example of illustrating the influence of an 'organic intellectual'. Murray has written passionately in support of British fascist Tommy Robinson (Murray, 2018) and describes Islam as an "opportunistic infection" (Hasan, 2013) linked to the "strange death of Europe" (Murray, 2017a). Murray's ideas are not only entangled with the far-right (working class or otherwise), but with wider social connections.
    • Busher, Joel (2013). "Grassroots activism in the English Defence League: Discourse and public (dis) order". In Taylor, Max; Holbrook, Donald (eds.). Extreme Right Wing Political Violence and Terrorism. A&C Black. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4411-4087-6. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Popular commentators and public figures among the [EDL] activists that I have met include Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Melanie Philips, Andrew Gilligan, Douglas Murray, Pat Condell, and some of the commentators who contribute to forums like Alan Lake's Four Freedoms website.
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    • Ahmed, Nafeez (9 March 2015). "White supremacists at the heart of Whitehall". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2021. Murray's screed against the free speech of those asking questions about the intelligence services is ironic given that in a separate Wall Street Journal comment, he laments that the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen prove the West is losing the war on "free speech" being waged by Islamists. But Murray's concerns about free speech are really just a ploy for far-right entryism.
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    • Yörükoğlu, Ilgın (2 July 2020). "We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security". Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies (E-Book). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. pp. 27–51. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1_2. ISBN 978-3-030-45172-1. S2CID 226723768. Retrieved 6 January 2021. It is not only far-right political parties and "alt-right" blogs that are fueling the fire of xenophobia. In our century, be it the Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on a Revolution in Europe (2009) that recapitulates the idea of a slow-moving Muslim barbarian invasion, along with the Muslim "disorder, penury and crime", or the works by Douglas Murray and Thilo Sarrazin (which I mention below), a number of European and American best sellers have supplied the emotional force to the Eurabia conspiracy in particular and the alt-right in general.
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  154. ^ Kundnani, Arun (2012). "Blind spot? Security narratives and far-right violence". Security and Human Rights. 23 (2): 129–146. doi:10.1163/18750230-99900008. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  155. ^ Ahmed, Nafeez (9 March 2015). "White supremacists at the heart of Whitehall". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2021. Murray's screed against the free speech of those asking questions about the intelligence services is ironic given that in a separate Wall Street Journal comment, he laments that the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen prove the West is losing the war on "free speech" being waged by Islamists. But Murray's concerns about free speech are really just a ploy for far-right entryism.
  156. ^ Lux, Julia; Jordan, John David (2019). "Alt-Right 'cultural purity' ideology and mainstream social policy discourse - Towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology". In Elke, Heins; James, Rees (eds.). Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019. Policy Press. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447343981.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4473-4400-1. S2CID 213019061. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Media pundit, journalist, and conspiracy entrepreneur Douglas Murray is a prime example of illustrating the influence of an 'organic intellectual'. Murray has written passionately in support of British fascist Tommy Robinson (Murray, 2018) and describes Islam as an "opportunistic infection" (Hasan, 2013) linked to the "strange death of Europe" (Murray, 2017a). Murray's ideas are not only entangled with the far-right (working class or otherwise), but with wider social connections.
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