A white New Zealand woman embraced the Muslim community her nation’s history displaced

Evidence

Linda was white. Her forebears were from the very continent that had come crashing down on New Zealand and wiped out its native population hundreds of years earlier. Her skin was the same color as that of the terrorist who crashed into the Linwood mosque she attended. But those he saw as invaders, Sister Linda embraced as family, opening “her heart and home” to them. And the faith the terrorist and the War on Terror marked as “savage,” she clung to for salvation. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1007

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in Islamophobia as a global condition — the settler-colonial irony that a descendant of colonizers adopted the faith of the colonized.