Western populist leaders’ anti-Muslim rhetoric directly armed Christchurch’s white supremacist terrorist

Evidence

Ardern’s sincerity streamed from a place of empathy, empathy that absorbed the full violence of Islamophobia. The massacres at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques highlighted the reach and realness of that evil. They also revealed its relationship to the loaded rhetoric unleashed by divisive populists, most notably the United States’ Donald Trump, France’s Marine Le Pen, India’s Narendra Modi, and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, whose brazen demonization of Islam and its adherents have armed white supremacist vigilantes to permanently ban Muslims with loaded guns instead of rhetoric. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Iftikhar’s argument that Islamophobic rhetoric from leaders normalized violence; the reader is reading this alongside Iftikhar for the global-synthesis view.
• SEED: Could seed an essay tracing the trail from Le Pen/Modi/Trump rhetoric to Tarrant’s manifesto citations as state-to-state ripple effects of hate speech.