My TakeWhite supremacists the new face of terror
- In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, those who shout loudest about ‘Islamofascism’ and ‘Islamic terrorism’ should reconsider who the fascists and terrorists are now
The United States has declared war on terror for more than two decades. Will it now do the right thing and expand its scope to include itself and much of the Western world?
The massacre that killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, is the most horrible reminder that white supremacy, as an ideological movement, is now a potent source of global terrorism.
In a lengthy anti-Muslim manifesto, Brenton Tarrant, the alleged perpetrator of the Christchurch massacre, reportedly called Donald Trump a “symbol of white supremacy”.
The US president, of course, denies that white nationalism is even a problem. When asked about it in the context of the Christchurch massacre, he said: “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”
In 2017, he said there were “very fine people on both sides” after a self-identified white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing one person and injuring nearly 40 at a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.