"In the face of inhumanity, we have to be more human. Because there is only this one world, brutal and beautiful, and we only have one fragile life to make our difference in the world we all share as home." ~~ Erik Abild, coordinator for Myanmar and the Occupied Palestinian Territories at the Norwegian Refugee Council, in Al Jazeera.
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| Photo by Jens Rost |
My thoughts:
(1) The terrorist was not Muslim.
(2) The terrorist's mental illness and hatred was fueled by anti-Muslim rhetoric and right-wing extremism that cast anyone involved with the Labor party as some kind of devils.
(3) If you go around spewing rhetoric and hatred against any group of people, if you go around calling any group names or blame any group for your condition or for the local, national or global state of affairs - based only on their nationality, religion, gender, sexual preference, age, race, etc. - I consider you guilty by association. I do. You are guilty. You stoke the fire that sets guys like this one off. Do not let yourself off the hook, this person did NOT "act alone".
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