White supremacist terror unites indigenous and Muslim victims in shared resistance

Evidence

One photo, captured in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacres, brought it all together, tying New Zealand’s bloody beginning with its dark present. A Maori man, with a traditional face tattoo and eyes closed in mourning, locked noses with a Muslim man in the indigenous tradition called the hongi. The Muslim man, his baseball cap tilted back, stared ahead as if piercing the face of the Maori man who knew his pain, as if he had seen it before. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 951

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the hongi, the Maori nose-pressing greeting, through a concrete historical image.
• CANDY: The hongi image is a vivid, self-contained visual worth sharing.