Murray's work has been perceived as putting a socially acceptable face on what would otherwise be considered fringe ideologies. Arun Kundnani, who has written on radicalization, said in an article for "Security and Human Rights" that the "counterjihadist" ideology embodied by Murray and other conservative intellectuals is, "through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse... able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence". Similarly, Murray's views have been described as a kind of "mainstreamist" ideology that defies easy categorization as extremist while remaining "entangled with the far right".