Media coverage humanized the Christchurch killer but anonymized his fifty-one victims

Evidence

However, the bodies spread across the prayer rooms inside the Al Noor and Linwood mosques were anonymous and unknown. To the outside world, they had no names, no faces, and no individual stories before each of their lives was cut short. … They were merely “victims,” sheep of the same religious flock massacred by a lone wolf who we came to know, and know very well, in the minutes that followed. While their lives in the hours that followed were vulnerable to that permanent death the media casts upon Muslims when victimized by terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 970

Categorization

• XREF: This is the concrete Christchurch case the reader needs for the global-synthesis view — a documentary anchor showing how states and media jointly dehumanize Muslim victims while memorializing white supremacist killers. Pairs with Iftikhar’s analysis of the same episode.