Christchurch shooter’s framing borrowed directly from political rhetoric branding Muslims invaders

Evidence

That white gunman, a terrorist with the aim of slaying as many Muslims as he could on that unholy Friday, saw them as intruders, interlopers in a land that was not theirs to live or pray in. And he assumed the call of duty from presidents and politicians who flagged all Muslims as “invaders.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 876

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• XREF: Directly illustrates the global Islamophobia-as-transnational-manufacture thesis Beydoun shares with Kumar Iftikhar — ‘invader’ rhetoric traveling from politicians into a gunman’s motive.