![]() Uber-twit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet mocking people for offering prayers after Muslims were killed…while at Friday prayers. ![]() Media coverage is predictably intense, dominating every media site and almost all of Twitter trending topics, and the recriminations from prominent voices in America followed the usual pattern with people blaming Trump, guns and anyone who is insufficiently enthusiastic about mass immigration. His arrest, identification and listed motivation happened lightning fast in contrast to many, many other terrorist attacks where we often see someone yelling “Allahu Akbar” but we aren’t allowed to speculate about motives (“His motives may never be known…”). ![]() I haven’t read it yet so I am going off of media reports, always a risky proposition. Tarrant allegedly released a manifesto that expressed “anti-immigrant” and “white supremacist” sentiments. ![]() The reports are still pretty scattered as is often the case but a man named Brenton Tarrant has apparently been arrested for the shooting and we are being told that at least 49 people are dead, presumably all of them Muslims, at two mosques. ![]() Overnight the news was filled with reports from New Zealand that a gunman had killed a number of people in Christchurch. ![]()
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