Christchurch terreuraanslag: de normalisatie van anti-moslim terreur en westerse oorlogsvoering in moslimlanden

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 a typo

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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)