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“Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been normalized by mainstream right-wing news outlets, many of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.” washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac… #ChristchurchMosqueShootings
#Australia has history of far-right groups that have targeted immigrants & minorities. From start of 20th C, it adopted policies designed to exclude immigrants of non-Euro origin. These measures, known collectively as White Australia policy, were fully abandoned only in 1973.
In mid-90s,far-right political parties e.g.Pauline Hanson’s One Nation were able to draw on antiimmigrant sentiment vs Asians to gain foothold in national politics. In recent yrs,One Nation & other rightwing groups have gained political relevance by pivoting to Muslim immigration
“Though most of those groups focus on Australian concerns,the manifesto released before Friday’s attack indicated the alleged gunman had moved to New Zealand specifically to carry it out,suggesting it would show that Muslims were not safe “even in the remotest areas of the world”
“But although #Australia may be fertile ground for far-right radicalization, the suspect’s rhetoric — and, notably, the target — also suggests that motivation for the attack was not traditional far-right nationalism, but a newer kind of international, Internet-inspired extremism”
