Shared status as targets of white supremacy unites Maori and Muslims

Evidence

The image was soul moving and embodied how indigenous Maori stood by Muslims during that nation’s darkest hour. Moments when they came together as one against a white supremacist front that counts them both as inferior and expendable. There was boundless empathy, and immense power, between those two men. Power that overpowered and outsized that photo, power that almost pulls them together into a singular entity. … Power you can feel more profoundly than you can see, that fuses two Brown men—one Maori and one Muslim—against that monster of white supremacy rooted in New Zealand’s history that rises again. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 952

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: colonial-settler histories of erasure create natural solidarity between indigenous peoples and present-day Muslim minorities facing the same white supremacist ideology.