Douglas Murray (giornalista)

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Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray (Londra, 16 luglio 1979) è un giornalista e commentatore politico britannico.

Ha fondato il Center for Social Cohesion nel 2007, che è entrato a far parte della Henry Jackson Society, dove è stato direttore associato dal 2011 al 2018. È anche editore associato della rivista politica e culturale britannica The Spectator.

Murray ha scritto articoli per pubblicazioni come Standpoint e The Wall Street Journal.

Biografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

All'età di 19 anni, mentre frequentava il secondo anno all'Università di Oxford, Murray pubblicò Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas[1]. Dopo aver lasciato Oxford, Murray scrisse un'opera teatrale, Nightfall, sul diplomatico svedese Raoul Wallenberg[2].

Nel 2006, Murray ha pubblicato una difesa del neoconservatorismo, Neoconservatism: Why We Need It e ha fatto un giro di conferenze per promuovere il libro negli Stati Uniti. Nel 2016, Murray ha organizzato un concorso attraverso The Spectator in cui i partecipanti sono stati invitati a presentare poesie offensive sul presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, con un primo premio di £ 1.000 donato da un lettore[3].

Nel 2017 ha pubblicato The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, in cui sostiene che l'Europa "stia suicidandosi" attraverso l'immigrazione non europea. Il titolo è rimasto per quasi 20 settimane nella lista dei best seller del Sunday Times ed è stato pubblicato in più di 20 lingue in tutto il mondo.[4]

Posizioni politiche[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Murray è stato descritto come un conservatore[5], un neoconservatore[6][7][8] e un critico dell'Islam[6][7]. Le sue opinioni e la sua ideologia sono state collegate alle ideologie politiche di estrema destra da fonti accademiche[9] e giornalistiche[10][11][12].

È stato anche accusato di promuovere teorie cospirative di estrema destra[13][14][15], e di essere islamofobo[16], sebbene lo stesso Murray lo abbia negato e abbia espresso critiche a determinate figure e partiti politici di estrema destra[17].

Il suo libro La strana morte dell'Europa, in cui si prefigura la distruzione dell'Europa a causa della diffusione dell'Islam, viene frequentemente citato da gruppi anti-immigrati e da politici di estrema destra come Viktor Orbán[11][18].

Pubblicazioni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  • Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005),
  • Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011)
  • La strana morte dell'Europa (The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Neri Pozza, 2017)
  • La pazzia delle folle (The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, 2019)
  • Islamophilia: A Very Metropolitan Malady (2020)

Note[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  1. ^ A Look at the Other Central Figure In the Famous Case of Oscar Wilde, su nytimes.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  2. ^ Mugged by Reality, su nysun.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale il 6 ottobre 2020).
  3. ^ Introducing ‘The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition’, su spectator.co.uk. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  4. ^ he Strange Death of Europe, su jewishbookweek.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  5. ^ Meet the conservative activists who want to override the Supreme Court, su timesofisrael.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  6. ^ a b Douglas Murray on immigration, Islam and identity, su standard.co.uk. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  7. ^ a b The Neo-Conservative Speaker, Douglas Murray, Is Simply Wrong It Comes to British Muslims and Extremism, su huffingtonpost.co.uk. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  8. ^ How US Neocons Inspired the Netherlands’ New Radical Right, su jacobinmag.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  9. ^
    • Blake Stewart, The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism (ePub), in Critical Sociology, vol. 46, 7–8, 2020, pp. 1207–1220, DOI:10.1177/0896920519894051. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 2021.
      «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.»
    • Arun Kundnani, Blind spot? Security narratives and far-right violence (XML), in Security and Human Rights, vol. 23, n. 2, 2012, pp. 129–146, DOI:10.1163/18750230-99900008. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 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.»
    • Julia Lux e John David Jordan, Alt-Right 'cultural purity' ideology and mainstream social policy discourse - Towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology, in Heins Elke e Rees James (a cura di), Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019, Policy Press, 2019, DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447343981.001.0001, ISBN 978-1-4473-4400-1. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 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.»
    • Joel Busher, Grassroots activism in the English Defence League: Discourse and public (dis) order, in Max Taylor e Donald Holbrook (a cura di), Extreme Right Wing Political Violence and Terrorism, A&C Black, 2013, p. 70, ISBN 978-1-4411-4087-6. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 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.»
    • Jon Bloomfield, Progressive Politics in a Changing World: Challenging the Fallacies of Blue Labour, in The Political Quarterly, vol. 91, n. 1, 2020, pp. 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.»
  10. ^ Who Funds PragerU’s Anti-Muslim Content?, su readsludge.com. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale l'8 novembre 2020).
  11. ^ a b The Far Right is obsessed with a book about Muslims destroying Europe. Here's what it gets wrong, su web.archive.org. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  12. ^ White supremacists at the heart of Whitehall, su middleeasteye.net. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale il 1º novembre 2019).
  13. ^ Murray e la teoria complottistica Eurabia:
    • Ed Pertwee, Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution, in Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 43, n. 16, 2020, pp. 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...»
    • Ilgın Yörükoğlu, We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security, in Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2 luglio 2020, pp. 27–51, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1_2, ISBN 978-3-030-45172-1. URL consultato il 6 gennaio 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 e la teoria complottista della sostituzione etnica:
    • Kumar Ramakrishna, The White Supremacist Terrorist Threat to Asia, in Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, vol. 12, n. 4, 2020, pp. 1–7, JSTOR 26918075. URL consultato il 7 gennaio 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 e la teoria complottista del Marxismo Culturale:
    • Blake Stewart, The Rise of Far-Right Civilizationism (ePub), in Critical Sociology, vol. 46, 7–8, 2020, pp. 1207–1220, DOI:10.1177/0896920519894051. URL consultato il 2 gennaio 2021.
      «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.»
  16. ^
    • Matthias Ekman, Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare, in Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 38, n. 11, 2015, pp. 1986–2002, DOI:10.1080/01419870.2015.1021264. URL consultato il 3 gennaio 2021.
      «Important Islamophobic intellectuals are, among others, Melanie Phillips, Niall Ferguson, Oriana Fallaci (d. 2006), Diana West, Christopher Hitchens (d. 2011), Paul Berman, Frank Gaffney, Nick Cohen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Douglas Murray (Kundnani 2012b, 2008; Carr 2006; Gardell 2010).»
    • William Allchorn, Beyond Islamophobia? The role of Englishness and English national identity within English Defence League discourse and politics, in National Identities, vol. 21, n. 5, 2019, pp. 527–539, DOI:10.1080/14608944.2018.1531840. URL consultato il 3 gennaio 2021.
      «In addition, in Busher’s (2015) ethnographic study of EDL activism in the South East, he confirms that – while EDL activists’ ideological sources were largely drawn from ‘esoteric [Counter-Jihad] authors’ – they also ‘extended well beyond this niche’ to include mainstream ‘Islamophobes’ such as Douglas Murray and prominent New Atheists Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins (p. 84), whose characterisation of the Muslim faith as ‘evil’ or ‘mad’ adds grist to the group's Islamophobic cause.»
    • Stuart Chambers, Islamophobia in western media is based on false premises, su The Conversation, 22 gennaio 2021. URL consultato il 24 febbraio 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale il 23 gennaio 2021).
      «The rhetoric of Canadian conservative author Mark Steyn is typical of right-wing Islamophobia. For instance, Steyn claims that “most Muslims either wish or are indifferent to the death of the societies in which they live.” Likewise, Dutch politician and right-wing populist Geert Wilders refers to the Qur’an as “a source of inspiration for, and justification of, hatred, violence and terrorism in the world, Europe and America.” British conservative political commentator Douglas Murray suggests that to reduce terrorism, the United Kingdom requires “a bit less Islam.”»
  17. ^ Why I’ll never become an MP, su spectator.com.au. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.
  18. ^ Dio, Onore, Nazione: Salvini e Meloni star dell’evento della destra mondiale a Roma, su fanpage.it. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2021.

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