The attack on innocent Muslims in New Zealand by white nationalist terrorists was a horrible thing.
I make no excuse for white nationalist terrorists, or any other kind of terrorist.
But I also note that many more innocent Muslims have been killed as a result of the U.S. war on terror than by all individual white nationalist terrorists combined.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been killed, and millions made homeless as a result of the U.S. regime change wars. Many more have died in Libya and Syria as a result of regime change rebellions backed by the United States. The Saudi attack on Yemen, with U.S. advisers and U.S. weapons, has produced the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. The Trump administration has decided to stop reporting on civilian casualties from U.S. air strikes.
This is not, of course, to make light of the Christchurch attack. The blood on the hands of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump does not wash any blood off the hands of Brenton Tarrant.
LINKS
Circles of Identity, Circles of Violence by Ian Welsh.
Eight Thoughts on the Christchurch Attack by Caitlin Johnstone.
Fear of White Genocide: the underground stream feeding right-wing causes by Doug Muder for The Weekly Sift. Good insight into Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto.
Radicalization and Degeneration by Rod Dreher for The American Conservative. More insight.
Tags: War on terror, White Nationalism
Phil Ebersole's Blog 
March 18, 2019 at 12:04 pm |
Excellent point. People in glass houses should not throw stones. Perhaps we need to get our own house in order.
It is easy to point fingers over there rather than look right here.
In A Course In Miracles it teaches that we project our guilt by playing the game of “one or the other.” One of us must be guilty and if I say it’s you, then it’s not so much me.
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