Christchurch and Norway shooters were linked through shared online extremist culture

Evidence

It’s worth noting that “The Great Replacement” was also peppered with racist jokes and references to right-wing internet message boards like 8chan. It made references to the Crusades and the Barbary Pirate War—invoking conflicts involving Muslims that are both centuries old and long-settled—just as posts and memes on those message boards often do. Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever. In the Christchurch terrorist’s manuscript, he credits Breivik as an inspiration for his own mass killing spree. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 58

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kumar’s and Beydoun’s accounts of transnational far-right Islamophobic networks, and shows the online connective tissue single-nation studies underplay. — connects to: War on Terror policies inspired the Christchurch terrorist’s attacks — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1039; The Christchurch gunman framed Muslims as invaders echoing political rhetoric — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 876; US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648
• SEED: The online message-board ecosystem (8chan, Breivik hero-cult) as the transnational pipeline carrying Islamophobic memes across borders.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 58

Related

• The Christchurch gunman framed Muslims as invaders echoing political rhetoric (similarity 0.83)
• US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks (similarity 0.83)
• War on Terror policies inspired the Christchurch terrorist’s attacks (similarity 0.82)
• Christchurch shooter’s framing borrowed directly from political rhetoric branding Muslims invaders (similarity 0.80)
• The Christchurch killings were rooted in the denial that Muslims can integrate and belong. (similarity 0.79)
• The Christchurch terrorist staged his violence to achieve immortal notoriety (similarity 0.79)
• A US shooter emulated Christchurch against a mosque and synagogue (similarity 0.78)
• The Christchurch shooter targeted Muslims tactically as the most flammable group (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Christchurch gunman framed Muslims as invaders echoing political rhetoric #expands (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 876
• War on Terror policies inspired the Christchurch terrorist’s attacks #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1039