Christchurch: The 'how' is explainable. The 'why' is harder to digest

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OPINION: Christchurch: The 'how' is explainable. The 'why' is harder to digest.

But lax gun laws are arguably the only area in which blame can be laid in New Zealand. Ardern, together with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, was also right to refer to this barbaric act of cold-blooded murder of people in prayer as right-wing extremist terrorism driven by Islamophobic hatred.

In 2017, it is calculated that there were 950 attacks on Muslims and mosques in Germany alone. Many of last year’s attacks in America involved a common right-wing extremist hatred of Islam, and a targeting of Muslims, joining a long-standing enmity towards Jews.Almost all recent terrorist attacks have been lone-actor attacks. They are notoriously difficult to predict.

Donald Trump can be deservedly singled out for making the unspeakable the new normal in mainstream right-wing politics, but he is hardly alone in this. And sadly, for all of the relative civility and stability of Australian politics, we too have now come to normalise the toxic politics of fear..

Both major parties, it must be said, succumbed to the lure of giving focus groups and pollsters the tough language and inhumane policies the public appeared to demand and reward. We are now beginning to see the true price that we have paid with the demonising of those arriving by boat seeking asylum, or looking too dark-skinned, or appearing too religious.

 

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yes 'why' - why was he in north korea, pakistan, turkey - why is turkey painting him as a serbian nationalist, why did he have cyrillic on his guns when he can barely string a sentence together - why why why - so many whys? Why is the muslim brotherhood propaganda machine up

It was always going to come to this... sadly. But no one really listened anymore and abuse of others with opposite opinion, or not even that, not agreeing with the progressive is enough for them to abuse others and ban free speech. They have the audacity to call themselves pro..

How about this? A great many people resent the social engineering being forced upon them. Deeply. Some frown, some talk about it over a beer some vote against it an a tiny minority act violently. Still they are ignored. Not learning are we?

When a govts strategy is to blame the other, minorities, the powerless and impose austere measures, is it really surprising some folk believe killing groups they hate is a reasonable solution?

Is this a parody piece?

but but but they said white western people were civilized & them brown people were dangerous

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