White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims

Evidence

The terror attacks that would quickly culminate in Christchurch did not only target Muslims. This is because in the mythological narrative of the murderous and hate-filled, any minority group can be implicated when it suits the purposes of white supremacists. A mass murderer can reconcile striking at a different group as a “roundabout way” of striking at Muslims. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 75

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the interchangeability of hate targets reveals that Islamophobic violence is really about a broader white-supremacist worldview, not Muslim identity per se.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 75
• XREF: connects to: White nationalists frame Muslim demographic change as an existential threat — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 11; White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480; Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210 (+2 more)

Related

• The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract. (similarity 0.87)
• Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence (similarity 0.84)
• Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.84)
• The Great Replacement narrative exposes Muslims to threat from any direction worldwide (similarity 0.83)
• The Christchurch shooter targeted Muslims tactically as the most flammable group (similarity 0.82)
• Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone (similarity 0.82)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist murders in the US more than doubled in 2017 (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are (similarity 0.80)
• Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion (similarity 0.79)
• The Muslim-terrorism conflation distanced white wars and white terror from scrutiny (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #corroborates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480
• The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract. #expands (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 815
• Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action #complicates (0.35) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221
• Anti-Muslim hate replicates anti-Semitic tropes and spreads between targeted groups #qualifies (0.30) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 210