Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) Thread: Another terrorist attack in NZ

This happened just a few hours ago at 2.40pm. It's 7pm now.

(2) The only fatality was the attacker, who was shot by police, after injuring 6 people. He was:

>known to police and the courts as an ISIS supporter
>a Sri Lankan national who arrived in NZ in 2011
>on a watchlist since 2016

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(3) I've said for years a jihadist attack was inevitable one day in NZ. Relieved no innocents died but the 6 injured are forever changed.

The first NZ terrorist attack in my lifetime was the far right fascist targeting of two mosques on March 15, 2019.

51 people killed.

(4) The 2019 Christchurch attack was a major event in NZ history and I try to educate people in other countries about it as much as I can.

It was the first major far right fascist attack in the world, in the past decade, as far as I could tell.

It's going to happen in the US.

(5) I mean, it's inevitable there will be a major attack in the US by one or more far right fascists, given the way they've been radicalized in recent years especially.

I hate to be proven right all the time with this stuff.

(6) Obviously the targeting or killing of innocents in the name of an extremist ideology is despicable regardless of being far right or far left.

Too many Republican elected officials refuse to admit their own complicity in this phenomenon.

#NeverForgetJan6

(7) The 2019 attack targeted the people at the mosques because they were brown or black and Muslim.

The attacker referred to these New Zealanders and welcome visitors as "kebabs."

The attacker will hopefully die in prison one day. We don't want to deport the attacker to AU.

(8) The attacker believed in "The Great Replacement" and "White Genocide" ideologies.

These are linked to antisemitism and the hatred of Muslims, and of socialists/communists.

The hard core of the 1/6 attackers do too. And Trump knew that all along.

(9) One of the Big Lies that led to the Trump win in 2016 was the hatred of Muslims. Granted, most Trump voters didn't and don't hate Muslims. But the fact is, Trump seems to, and he made use of the hard core far right networks to spread the ideology and radicalize followers.

(10) "Alt right" is a silly term; I don't use it. They are far right fascists. Most of them were radicalized by Trump. And I'm sure Vladimir Putin is pleased about it, too.

Yes, all the jihadist attacks we can think of were hate crimes & must be addressed.

(11) I'm heartbroken for the 6 injured people in Auckland tonight. 3 of them are in critical condition. And all the supermarket workers and shoppers - Auckland is stressed to the max at the moment because of the Delta variant outbreak up there. Poor souls.🙏

(12) I had to curtail my viewing and reading about this terrorist attack. Too triggering for me. Especially seeing the arrogant cover-up attempts already underway by a very unpopular police commissioner. I can't anymore.

(13) IDK what it's like where you live but in this pandemic it's our supermarket and other retail workers that are hardest hit.

From the outset in NZ they have been verbally and physically abused. It's outrageous.

(14) Foreign news coverage about NZ is usually inaccurate. If you want to ask about the terrorist attack here today, our justice system, or anything else about our country, #AMA.

Thanks.