The Christchurch massacre was a reckoning produced by the War on Terror itself
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Ardern could not end a War on Terror started by men, or preempt the terror it incited in white supremacist vigilantes who preyed on mosques in her country and Muslims beyond it. But as prime minister of a nation that endured the lethal reckoning of the War on Terror’s ugliest spawn, she could steer a new course for her nation and offer a model for others to emulate. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1046
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- QUESTION: Worth pursuing: the claim that white-supremacist mosque attacks are causally spawned by the state’s War on Terror (not merely its rhetoric) — what evidence does Beydoun marshal later?
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s guiding question about states exporting Islamophobic logics transnationally.