Whitney Webb schreef een uitgebreid
artikel over de terreuraanslag in Christchurch, Nieuw-Zeeland. Webb
gaat in op de 74 pagina’s tellende motivatie en ideologie van dader
Tarrant en stelt daarbij dat de westerse politiek, zeker na de komst
van Trump als VS president, taal gebruikt tegen moslims waarmee zij
worden gedemoniseerd……… Terwijl in werkelijkheid regeringen als
die van Trump de ene massamoord na de andere begaan op moslims, zo vermoordde de VS in een aantal illegale oorlogen alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5 miljoen, voornamelijk moslims…… Dan is er nog de samenwerking van de Trump
administratie, de westerse media en het militair-industrieel complex,
tegen moslimlanden die niet braaf doen wat de imperialistische VS van
hen eist….
De westerse reguliere media steunen tegen beter weten in de illegale oorlogen van
de VS en verkopen deze als onvermijdbaar aan
de de westerse bevolkingen, zoals de VS dat in eigen land doet….. Vreemd genoeg geldt die in feite
mobilisatie van westerse bevolkingen tegen moslimstaten niet, als het
gaat om terreurstaten als Saoedi-Arabië en de Verenigde Arabische
Emiraten (VAE), terwijl daar dezelfde zaken ‘mis zijn’ die worden genoemd door die
media en de Trump administratie als het gaat om VS onwelgevallige regeringen, dus dictaturen die
terreurgroepen steunen en het volk onderdrukken, sterker nog: de landen die de VS niet welgevallig zijn worden gedemoniseerd als dergelijke regimes, terwijl daar in de praktijk vaak helemaal geen sprake van is…..
Zie wat betreft het voorgaande Syrië, waarover dit niet eens gezegd kon worden, echter tot op de dag
van vandaag houden de westerse massamedia en het grootste deel van de
westerse politici die leugens hoog…. (vergeet niet dat onder Assad alle geloven hand in hand naast elkaar leefden en het volk gemiddeld een redelijk inkomen had….) Door de acties van de VS, die de opstand op poten zette en regisseerde, waarna deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde een oorlog ontketende tegen het regime Assad, ligt het land voor een groot deel in puin…… Gelukkig leven de teruggekeerde vluchtelingen, in de door het reguliere Syrische leger bevrijdde gebieden, nu weer hand in hand met buren die een ander geloof aanhangen…….
De reli-fascistische dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië, dat een bloedig beleid voert tegen Saoedische sjiieten en in buurland Jemen een genocide uitvoert op de sjiitische bevolking, wordt nog steeds
gesteund door het westen (Nederland levert zelfs nog steeds
wapenonderdelen aan die reli-fascistische dictatuur)….. Nogmaals: terwijl dat
land een genocide uitvoert in buurland Jemen……
Ook de taal die bij e.e.a. wordt
uitgeslagen heeft ervoor gezorgd dat de westerse bevolkingen achter
de illegale oorlogen van de VS en de NAVO-lidstaten tegen
moslimlanden staan. Moslims worden aangewezen als de terroristen van
de wereld, terwijl er amper of geen aandacht is voor de waanzin van
westerse landen die illegale oorlogen tegen moslimlanden voeren,
waarbij onnoemelijk veel meer moslims werden en worden vermoord, dan die door alle
‘moslimaanslagen’ in het westen bij elkaar opgeteld, sterker nog, dat aantal moorden kan daarbij zelfs niet in de schaduw staan…..* Niet vreemd dus dat die grootschalige westerse terreur, aanslagen uitlokken op de Europese straten……
Voorts wijst Webb op de andere
fascistische aanslagen op moslims en hun gebedshuizen (of andere instellingen van moslims, Ap), immers de aanslag van afgelopen maandag op de 2
moskeeën in Christchurch waren bepaald niet de eerste. (ook in Nederland werden er aanslagen op moskeeën gepleegd, al waren die niet in gebruik ten tijde van de aanslagen)
De motivatie van fascisten die aanslagen plegen zoals die in Christchurch, is
gericht tegen vluchtelingen uit moslimlanden, zonder aandacht te
schenken aan het feit waarom zij zijn gevlucht: grootschalige
westerse terreur o.l.v. de VS, waarbij zoals eerder opgemerkt alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5 miljoen
moslims zijn vermoord…….
Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel
en zegt het voort! (het is de hoogste tijd dat de reguliere media
stoppen met hun leugens, stemmingmakerij, angstzaaien en zelfs
haatzaaien tegen moslimlanden die niet braaf aan de westerse leiband lopen, hetzelfde geldt voor het haatzaaien tegen moslims in westerse landen. Het volgende artikel verscheen eerder op MintPress News en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media (de getoonde foto’s komen van MintPress):
The
Christchurch Shooting and the Normalization of Anti-Muslim Terrorism
March
18, 2019 at 7:24 am
Written
by Whitney
Webb
(MPN) — What
is without question the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s
history took place on Friday when shooters, 28-year-old Australian
Brenton Tarrant among them, opened fire at two Christchurch mosques.
Four, including Tarrant, have been arrested for the heinous act,
which claimed at least 49 innocent lives. Tarrant was responsible for
killing more than 40 victims, among them several children, in a
rampage he live-streamed on Facebook, sending chills throughout the
Muslim community, particularly Muslims living in Western countries.
Tarrant’s
motives and ideology, laid bare in a 74-page
manifesto,
show a concern over the fertility rates of non-white groups as well
as the immigration of non-whites to countries like New Zealand and
Australia, which he likened to an “invasion” that threatened the
white majority in those countries. However, Tarrant — in his
ignorance — failed to grasp that many of the Muslim immigrants he
targeted had come to New Zealand after fleeing Western-backed
invasions, occupations, or persecution in their home countries.
Notable
among Tarrant’s views is the fact that he is a clear
ethno-nationalist, promoting his view that different ethnic groups
must be kept “separate, unique, undiluted in [sic] unrestrained in
cultural or ethnic expression and autonomy.” Tarrant also claimed
that he doesn’t necessarily hate Muslims and only targeted those
Muslims {i.e., immigrants) that chose “to invade our lands, live on
our soil and replace our people.”
He
also stated that he chose to target Muslims because “Islamic
nations, in particular, have high birth rates, regardless of race or
ethnicity” and to satiate “a want for revenge against Islam for
the 1,300 years of war and devastation that it has brought upon the
people of the West and other peoples of the world.” His views are
remarkably similar to those of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik,
which is unsurprising given that Tarrant named him as an inspiration
for the shooting.
Though
many — in the hours after the shooting — have sought to place
blame and point fingers at notable demagogues like President
Donald Trump or “counter-jihad”
alt-right figures like
Laura Loomer and Jacob Wohl, it is important to place Tarrant’s
motivations in context.
A
body lies on the footpath outside a mosque in central Christchurch,
New Zealand, March 15, 2019, following a mass shooting. Mark Baker |
AP
Indeed,
while Trump’s rise to political power has brought Islamophobic
rhetoric into the public sphere in an undeniable way, it is a symptom
of a much broader effort aimed at propagandizing the people of the
United States and other Western countries to support wars in and
military occupations of Muslim-majority countries. This manufactured
Islamophobia, largely a product of Western governments and a
compliant mass media, has sought to vilify all Muslims by maligning
the religion itself as terrorism, in order to justify the plunder of
their countries and deflect attention from their suffering.
It
is a classic “divide and conquer” scam aimed at keeping
Westerners divided from Muslims in their own countries and abroad.
The horrific shooting in Christchurch is a testament to its
unfortunate success and pervasiveness, as well as a potent reminder
that it must be stopped.
Indeed,
this manufactured Islamophobia has made it so that Muslims in their
home countries are in danger of dying from Western-backed wars and,
if they flee to the “safer” West, they have targets on their
backs painted by the very war propaganda used to justify Western
military adventurism in Muslim-majority nations.
Islam,
the media and “Forever Wars”: Who’s the “real” terrorist?
Since
September 11th and the advent of the “War on Terror,” mass media
reporting increasingly began to conflate Muslims and Muslim-majority
nations with war, terrorism and violence in general. Indeed, 9
out of 10 mainstream
news reports on Muslims, Islam, and Islamic organizations are related
to violence and Muslims who are named on mainstream media are
all-too-frequently warlords or terrorist leaders.
This
near-constant association of Islam and violence has created the false
perception that the religion of Islam, by its very nature, is violent
and that Muslims too must then be violent and thus dangerous. This
media-driven association has had very real and troubling
consequences. For instance, a
2010 study by
the University of Exeter found “empirical evidence to demonstrate
that assailants of Muslims are invariably motivated by a negative
view of Muslims they have acquired from either mainstream or
extremist nationalist reports or commentaries in the media.” In
other words, Islamophobic media reports are directly related to hate
crimes targeting Muslims.
This
is no accident, as such biased reporting on Muslim-majority nations
also began as Western-backed wars in countries like Iraq and
Afghanistan sought to put these countries’ natural resources,
namely their oil and mineral wealth, into the hands of American
corporations. It should be no surprise then that top funders of media
outlets that have routinely promoted Islamophobic narratives are also
those who have
profited considerably
from the “War on Terror” and Western-backed regime-change wars in
other countries.
This
concerted effort to vilify Muslims has had the potent effect, likely
by design, of reducing empathy among Westerners for the largely
Muslim victims of Western military adventurism in Muslim-majority
countries. Indeed, while mainstream news outlets often trumpet the
imminent dangers Americans face from “radical Islamic terror,”
the death toll of innocent people — most of them Muslim — that
have been killed by the U.S.-led “War on Terror” is several
orders of magnitude greater than the number of Americans who have
died from all terror attacks over that same period.
Residents
carry the bodies of several civilians killed in a US air strike in
Mosul, Iraq on March 24, 2017. Felipe Dana | AP
For
instance, from 2001 to 2013, an estimated 3,380
Americans died from
domestic and foreign terrorism, including the September 11 attacks as
well as acts of domestic terrorism carried out by white nationalists
and supremacists. If one excludes the September 11 death toll, the
number of American deaths over that same period stands at around
400, most of
them victims of mass-killers who were not Muslim.
By
comparison, an estimated 8
million innocent people in
Muslim-majority nations died as a result of U.S. policies and wars in
the Middle East and North Africa from 2001 to 2015. Yet, the
magnitude of this loss of life of these “unworthy victims” is
minimized by media and government silence, and the creation of a
climate of Islamophobia in the West has only served to deepen the
ease with which mass murder is accepted by the aggressor countries’
populations.
Beyond
the staggering disparity in the death tolls caused by terror groups
and Western-backed imperialist wars is the fact that many of these
very Western governments that purport to be so concerned with
“radical Islamic terror” have often created and funded the most
notorious terror groups of all. Indeed, the U.S. government helped to
create Al Qaeda and continues
to protect its
Syrian branch — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — in Syria’s Idlib
province to this day. In addition, the CIA was just recently
revealed to
be helping the Islamic State regroup in Syrian refugee camps.
Furthermore, the U.S. has long turned a blind eye to the funding
of terror groups by
allied states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The
role of Western money, arms and policy in the creation and
maintenance of radical Wahhabi terrorist groups is often entirely
ignored by Western media portrayals of Muslim-majority nations,
thereby creating a false image that such violence is endemic to these
nations when, in fact, it is often imported state-sponsored terror.
These
nuances of the situation are rarely heard in the narratives parroted
out on mainstream media and those who regularly consume mainstream
news sources are more likely than not to support those narratives.
For that reason, it is easy to see how someone like Donald Trump —
who is said to watch television for eight
hours every day,
much of it Fox
News —
has espoused the views that he has. Thanks to the manufacturing of
Islamophobia of mainstream media, racist policies like the so-called
“Muslim ban” have found wide support, as this false narrative has
conflated Islam with violence so often that many have come to believe
that only by banning Islam can violence and terrorism in the U.S. be
reduced.
However,
the recent shooting in Christchurch, as well as the Tree of Life
Synagogue shooting and other recent acts of domestic terrorism,
should alert us to the fact that it is the hate manufactured by this
false narrative that is itself endangering American lives while also
covering up the mass murder that has been perpetrated by the U.S. and
other governments around the world for decades.
Israel’s
leading role in stoking ethnonationalism
While
the realities of post-9/11 America, as well as the rise in visibility
of white ethnonationalism during the Trump Era, have done much to
normalize attacks on immigrants, the country that has done the most
to normalize anti-Muslim terrorism over this same time frame has been
the state of Israel.
Israel,
from its founding days, has long been steeped in neocolonialist
ideology that is remarkably similar to the ideological basis behind
other settler states like the United States, Australia and New
Zealand. This system of beliefs holds that the native inhabitants of
the land — whether the Palestinians, the Sioux or the Maori — are
“primitive” and incompetent and that the land would have remained
“wild” and undeveloped were it not for the “fortunate”
appearance of European settlers. As MintPress noted
in a
previous report on
the subject, such narratives cast these settlers as both superior and
normal while the natives become inferior and abnormal, thus
obfuscating the settler’s status as foreigner and conqueror.
In
Israel’s case, this ideology has promoted the idea that all Arabs
are “sons of the desert” while the desert simultaneously
represents a barbaric obstacle to “progress” and development.
However, the state of Israel, under the lengthy tenure of current
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has seen these long-standing and
somewhat hidden underpinnings of the Zionist state burst out into the
open.
The
result has been the overt expression of ethnonationalism in such a
way that Israel has become an inspiration to white nationalists in
the United States, like Richard Spencer, and far-right ethno-fascist
leaders like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and India’s Narendra Modi.
The inspiration has been mutual, according to reports
and testimonials published
by Jewish newspaper The
Forward.
For
years, through its military occupation of Palestine, Israel’s
government and military have sought to paint all Palestinians,
including children, as “terrorists” or “terrorist
sympathizers.” Take, for example, current Justice Minister Ayelet
Shaked, who
wrote in
2014, “This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The
Palestinian people …”
A
more recent example came from former Defense Minister Avigdor
Lieberman, who asserted just
last year that
“no innocent people” live in the Gaza Strip and that every
inhabitant in the enclave is somehow connected to Hamas, even though
nearly half of Gaza’s population are children and teenagers. Such
rhetoric has become par for the course and numerous examples show
that Shaked and Lieberman’s views are increasingly accepted and
“normal” in today’s Israel.
Yet,
the clearest indication of anti-Muslim terror’s normalization in
Israel is the recent rise of Otzma Yehudit, or the “Jewish Power”
Party. This party, founded by devotees of radical American-born Rabbi
Meir Kahane, has
now merged —
at Netanyahu’s urging — with the Jewish Home Party and stands to
become part of Israel’s ruling coalition if Netanyahu manages to
win in the country’s upcoming elections.
With
a portrait of late Rabbi Meir Kahane on the wall, left, a Jewish
settler walks inside a building taken from a Palestinian family in
Hebron, Nov. 16, 2008. Dan Balilty | AP
In
the office of Itamar Ben Gvir, one of Otzma Yehudit’s leaders, is a
framed picture of
Baruch Goldstein. In an act that bears a striking similarity to the
events in Christchurch, Goldstein — a long-time devotee of Kahane —
entered a mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron in 1994 and opened
fire, killing 29 and injuring more than 125 worshippers. After the
act, Kahane’s Kach party — the predecessor of Otzma Yehudit —
was labeled a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel.
Despite
official condemnation, Goldstein’s atrocious act has been the
subject of praise and inspiration for subsequent extremists who,
under Netanyahu’s government, have become increasingly normalized.
Goldstein’s gravestone reads “He gave his life for the people of
Israel, its Torah and land” and continues to be used as a site of
pilgrimage and homage by the very extremists that Netanyahu is openly
courting for political gain.
While
the followers of Kahane are making a comeback in Israel, several
notable Arab political parties have
been banned from
participating Israel’s upcoming elections, with some being accused
of “supporting terrorism” owing to their opposition to Israel’s
decades-long military occupation of Palestine. Yet, by elevating
clear terror supporters among the ranks of the Jewish Power Party (Otzma Yehudit), it
has become increasingly clear that openly supporting and advocating
anti-Muslim terrorism is no bar to legitimacy and political power in
today’s Israel.
No
‘clash of civilizations,’ only manipulation and exploitation of
differences
The
tragic and barbaric shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand is yet
another horrific and glaring reminder that the “divide and conquer”
war propaganda that has sought to promote the so-called “clash of
civilizations” between Christianity and Islam, West and East, has
not only been monstrously effective but continues to be monstrously
destructive to people on both sides.
However,
the media’s manufacture of Islamophobia, in seeking to Wite-out
Muslim suffering and reduce Western empathy for innocent Muslim
civilians, has increasingly placed targets on the back of Muslims
everywhere — in the West and the East — making it increasingly
difficult for practitioners of the Islamic faith to feel safe
regardless of where they live.
With
most Muslim-majority countries now killing fields in Western-backed
wars, ruled by oppressive, Western-backed dictatorships, or under
threat of Western-backed regime change, even those Muslims who have
sought a safer, quieter life in the “civilized” West have now
found themselves targets thanks to the very war propaganda used to
justify the destruction of their home countries.
While
the murderer Tarrant had stated that he hoped his horrific crime
would help stoke “civil war” in Western countries, this tragedy
should and must serve as a wake up call for people everywhere that
the real forces responsible for the destruction of many
Muslim-majority countries and the current chaos present in many
Western countries are not generated by civilian populations or
religions but instead by the global oligarchy that engineers and
profits from this chaos. These oligarchs loot from the people of the
West just as they do from the people of the East and it is time to
recognize that they are the real threats to a more peaceful world —
not regular people praying, whether it be in a church, a synagogue or
a mosque.
By Whitney
Webb / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
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* Zie een bijvoorbeeld van een dag of tien geleden: ‘VS vermoordt minstens 50 voornamelijk burgers bij luchtaanval in Syrië‘
Zie ook:
‘Christchurch aanslag: witte nationalistische terreur >> een uitvoerproduct van de VS‘
‘Christchurch terreuraanslag: maatschappij niet gebaat bij censuur op fascisme‘
‘Christ Church >> fascistische terreuraanslag >> 49 doden……‘
Thierry Baudet (FVD) ging ook na de terreuraanslag gisteren door met verkiezingscampagne‘ (met een verwijzing naar de aanslag in Christchurch)
![Journalist Oshrat Kotler [Wikipedia]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Oshrat-Kotler.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
![Palestinian protesters climb wire fences during "Great March of Return" demonstration near Israel-Gaza border, in east of Shuja'iyya neighborhood, Gaza City, Gaza on 8 March, 2019 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190308_2_35329455_42403267.jpg?resize=1200%2C789&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
