White supremacist terror mirrors the founding colonial violence of settler nations.

Evidence

Brenton Tarrant was just another regular white man. So regular that he believed that a country where he was not a resident or a citizen was his own. … So regular that he believed them to be terrorists because of their faith and fashioned himself a freedom fighter “protecting” his people. … So regular that the terror he unleashed on March 15, 2019, at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques, the deadliest terrorist attack in New Zealand’s modern history, resembled the very acts that gave birth to that nation and the one he hailed from. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 942

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the settler-colonial framing the reader uses in the US Indian policy context; ties Tarrant to the nation-founding violence thread.