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The desperation in Erdogan's actions are there for all to see. Not a single
Turk was killed or wounded as far as I know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/world/asia/new-zealand-shooting-victims-names.html
He has backtracked slightly since but I doubt it has been widely reported
to his domestic audience. Of course around about now is when a lot of young
NZ and Australian travelers go to Turkey to commemorate the Gallipoli
landings of April 25th 1915. Of course this is actually an antipodean
contribution to British imperialist ambitions but it's still presented here
in NZ as the forging of our nation.
Christchurch, and NZ as a whole, has been being defined by the outpouring
of love and support that has occurred. And there has been that. But of
course that hasn't been the whole picture. Being a week now since the
massacre, a lot of women decided to wear hijab in solidarity. A colleague
of mine did her 15 minute duty slot on the school gate this morning wearing
the hijab. In that 15 minutes, she was told to "fuck off" on at least six
occasions by passing drivers; this has never happened to her before. The
school we work at is only 1km from the Linwood Mosque and the cars were
either coming from or driving to the intersection where the cordon still
stands. That suggests the outpouring of love for our Muslim community is
far from unanimous. There have been other moments though that do show that
positive side. Today as I pulled up at that intersection, a woman was
leaving the vigil that has stood outside the mosque every day since last
Friday. She was wearing the hijab. As she walked in front of the car she
stopped, turned and pointed to her skirt. She had written "Christchurch"
across the front. She then turned round and she had written "We stand
together" on the back.
No city is completely free of white supremacists. There's been an
insulation contractor whose vans have been driving around Christchurch with
a Sonnenrad logo and a claim that their pricing starts at $14.88/m2 (14 for
"the 14 words" and 88 for "Heil Hitler"). He's been gaoled for forwarding
the shooter's live streamed video but he's been flaunting his politics like
that for years. One good thing to have come out of this is a heightened
awareness of the discrimination Muslims and other minorities face, which
white New Zealanders have been largely oblivious to, or convinced
themselves was an aberration.
Cheers,
John
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