El Paso shooting comes amid global rise in white nationalist violence
More than 175 people
have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks linked to white
nationalism around the world since 2011
The Canadian man who
opened fire at a mosque in Quebec
in January 2017. The American man who plowed
his car into a crowd of protesters after a white supremacist rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, later that year. The 46-year-old American who
allegedly attacked a Pittsburgh
synagogue in 2018. The Australian man who allegedly killed 51
people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, this March.
Supporters of a white nationalist political group give Nazi salutes
in Georgia, 21 April 2018. Photograph: Go Nakamura/Reuters
Many of these attacks inspired even more acts of violence. The suspected Christchurch shooter, who is accused of livestreaming his murder of dozens of innocent people in New Zealand in March, appears to have inspired at least two additional mass shootings in the United States within five months. In April, another young white man opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one woman and injuring three other people. He cited the Christchurch attacks as his model, prosecutors said. On Saturday, the manifesto linked to the El Paso shooting, too, referred to the Christchurch massacre as an explicit inspiration.
El Paso shooting is Trump-inspired terrorism
in Georgia, 21 April 2018. Photograph: Go Nakamura/Reuters
Many of these attacks inspired even more acts of violence. The suspected Christchurch shooter, who is accused of livestreaming his murder of dozens of innocent people in New Zealand in March, appears to have inspired at least two additional mass shootings in the United States within five months. In April, another young white man opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one woman and injuring three other people. He cited the Christchurch attacks as his model, prosecutors said. On Saturday, the manifesto linked to the El Paso shooting, too, referred to the Christchurch massacre as an explicit inspiration.
El Paso shooting is Trump-inspired terrorism
“Too many people still
think of these attacks as single events, rather than interconnected actions,”
the historian Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home: The White Power
Movement and Paramilitary America, wrote in an opinion column on Sunday. “We spend
too much ink dividing them into anti-immigrant, racist, anti-Muslim or
antisemitic attacks. True, they are these things. But they are also connected
with one another through a broader white power ideology.”.. read more:
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