Douglas Murray (Author)

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Douglas Murray

Douglas Kear Murray (born July 16, 1979 ) is a British author and publicist . He deals with political issues and has emerged as a critic of Islam . He describes himself as a neoconservative and a staunch Zionist .

Life

Douglas Murray - The migrant crisis of 2015 and its ongoing effects

Murray attended St Benedict's School in Ealing in West London , Eton College in Eton, Berkshire , and Magdalen College at Oxford University , where he studied English.

At the age of 20, Murray published a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas and was subsequently referred to by British newspapers as England's youngest biographer. A short time later he wrote a play called Nightfall on the attempts of Raoul Wallenberg , Adolf Eichmann of the implementation of the Final Solution dissuade.

In 2007 Murray founded the Center for Social Cohesion (literally: "Center for Social Cohesion"), a think tank in London with a political focus. He headed this organization until it merged in April 2011 with the Henry Jackson Society named after Henry M. Jackson , another think tank in London that is particularly concerned with international politics. Since then he has been co-director of the Henry Jackson Society. He is also a member of the international advisory board of the “NGO Monitor”, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Jerusalem , which analyzes and evaluates the activities of other non-governmental organizations.

Murray is a sharp critic of Islam . Speaking at an event to commemorate Pim Fortuyn in 2006, he said cultural relativism was the main problem in Western Europe - relativism was the " primary disease " of the West that "made the opportunistic infection of Islam so deadly". Murray called " Islamophobia " a "nonsensical term" because there are "a considerable number of reasons to fear some - though certainly not all - aspects and versions of Islam". In 2017 his book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam was published , which topped the Sunday Times bestseller list. The first sentence of the foreword reads: “Europe is committing suicide” (in the German edition: “Europe commits suicide”). The reason for the imminent decline of Europe lies in the interplay of several factors: including the low birth rate of the indigenous population, massive immigration of people with different values, the cultivation of self-doubt and self-contempt or the lack of strong self-confidence in Europe as well as the inability to Admitting the failure of multiculturalism .

Murray has appeared on BBC's Question Time, Newsnight , HardTalk, Today Program, The Big Questions, and BBC Wales, and has written articles for The Guardian , The Sunday Times , NPR's Intelligence Squared US, and Standpoint.

Douglas Murray was originally a practicing Anglican . However, in 2008, in an article in The Spectator magazine, he explained how studying Islam and the Koran resulted in the loss of his own faith. Since then he has represented an atheistic worldview. Atheists, too, should recognize, according to Murray, that religion is not worthless or exclusively harmful. Believers asked the great questions of life that concern all people. In contrast to religion, atheism has so far had few answers to the important questions, such as human suffering and death, repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation.

Douglas Murray is openly gay . His biography Bosie about the life of Lord Alfred Douglas won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award in the gay biography / autobiography category.

Works

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mugged by Reality Short portrait in the New York Sun on the occasion of a US tour to present his book on neoconservatism, August 17, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b Review of Murray's biography on Lord Alfred Douglas nytimes.com, July 18, 2000.
  3. ^ A b c Douglas Murray on immigration, Islam and identity Evening Standard , May 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Henry Jackson Society: Professional Staff henryjacksonsociety.org
  5. ^ NGO Monitor: International Advisory Board ngo-monitor.org
  6. ↑ What are we to do about Islam? Speech by Douglas Murray at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference 2006 militantislammonitor.org, March 5, 2006. Quotation: “At the heart of this problem is the primary disease - the AIDS of the West - the disease which has made the opportunist infection of Islam so deadly. That disease is relativism. "
  7. ↑ Douglas Murray: The Outsider's Diary ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Standpoint Magazine, August 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.standpointmag.co.uk
  8. ↑ Information on the book The Strange Death of Europe on the Bloomsbury website.
  9. ↑ Information on the German edition, Der Sumord Europa, on the website of FinanzBook Verlag
  10. ^ Douglas Murray: Studying Islam has made me an atheist spectator.co.uk, December 29, 2008.
  11. ^ Douglas Murray: Atheists vs Dawkins spectator.co.uk, February 9, 2013.
  12. ^ The 2009 Charles Douglas Home Memorial Trust Award essay The Times, December 30, 2009
  13. ↑ The 2011-2012 Prize ewartbiggsprize.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Douglas Kear (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1979