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A jury has been unable to decide whether Jack Renshaw, a neo-Nazi who admitted a terrorist plot to kill an MP, remained a member of a banned terrorist group. At the end of his fourth and final trial of the past two years, the full story of those cases can now be told – Daniel De Simone/BBC News Continue reading UK’s neo-Nazi paedophile who plotted to kill
The only thing New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern asked of President Trump was to ‘send sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.’ Continue reading Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern: the face of sincere and compassionate leadership in times of crisis
U.S. Right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson claimed Muslims in America are “treated better” than white people as he expressed concern that repressed white Americans may be incited to carry out an attack in the U.S. similar to the recent massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left at least 50 dead.
Peterson said during his Friday radio show that “white people are getting angry rather than speaking up prior to anger” because “normal whites” and Christians are treated more poorly in the U.S. than Muslims are. Continue reading ‘MUSLIMS TREATED BETTER THAN CHRISTIANS, WHITE PEOPLE’: RIGHT-WING RADIO HOST WARNS ‘ANGRY WHITES’ MAY COPY NEW ZEALAND ATTACK
THE BIG IDEA: The white supremacist who live-streamed his Friday rampage at a New Zealand mosque posted a manifesto online that said the attack was partly inspired by Dylann Roof’s 2015 massacre of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina, police said.
Globalization has had positive impacts, but it’s also empowered evildoers. Friday’s terrorism underscores how much the contagion of white nationalism has spread internationally. Christchurch, New Zealand, is 8,545 miles from Charleston, S.C., but social media helps make the world more interconnected than ever. In this case, 21st-century technologies fostered kinship between people across borders and oceans over their shared hatred of Muslims and immigrants. Continue reading Terrorist attack at New Zealand Mosques shows the dangers of the ever shrinking global village