NZ Massacre & Donald Trump 3-17-2019

17, March 2019                 NZ Massacre & Donald Trump

The terror attack by a white supremacist Australian slaughtering forty nine Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand is an affront to all humanity, and to our common Creator.  Muslim worshipers are not jihadists bent on doing harm.

Photos of the attack and the hate drenched manifesto circulated around the world amplifying its gruesome message.

It is telling that the shooter named President Trump as his white savior who gained power by stoking hate and fear to galvanize his base. He warned that his wall was to protect America from a “caravan” of Central American (brown) migrants seeking asylum. He tossed in bogus stories of “Middle Easterners” in the caravan. He warned that Britain was “losing its culture” and that uncontrolled immigration was changing the fabric of Europe. Digging into his bottomless bag of hate speech he falsely accused Muslims of celebrating the Sept.11 attacks and introduced his travel ban on mainly Muslim countries.   Republicans who failed to condemn his rambling diatribes against immigrants are complicit in his ongoing hate crimes.

The cancer of white nationalism is not limited to the US; its tentacles have spread world-wide threatening immigrant communities desperately escaping conflicts in their home countries.

Muslims could help neutralize white nationalism by condemning all acts of violence committed by Islamic jihadists and fully embracing the laws and Constitution of their host countries. All religious communities should demonstrate their allegiance to God by acts of kindness, compassion and good deeds – not hate.