Jacinda Ardern’s post-attack tribute gave Christchurch’s fifty-one victims enduring public remembrance

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On March 19, 2019, Jacinda Ardern stood up, and stared down the War on Terror machine that delivered permanent death to Muslim victims while extending immortality to those who mowed them down. One woman, the head of a tiny island nation shaken by its deadliest terrorist attack, uttered a twelve-word elegy that inspired millions around the world to do the same. And, as billions of eyes fixed on her capable shoulders, she set in motion the compositions and vignettes and tributes that gave life to fifty-one Muslims after death and instilled their faces and names and stories deep within us, to live on for as long as we do. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1012

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• XREF: Links the Christchurch response to broader grief-and-remembrance dynamics across Beydoun’s global synthesis; contrasts Ardern’s tribute with state Islamophobia elsewhere.