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| Richard Fernandez: New Zealand Attack Shows Us That Tribal Score-Settling Has Infected the West |
| 2019-03-17 |
[PJ] he attack on the mosques, like Anders Breivik's murderous rampage in idyllic Norway, happened in New Zealand, ironically rated in 2017 the safest country in the world after Iceland. It's a sad reminder that no place is exempt from ethnic conflict. Et in Arcadia ego sum, whether Arcadia is Africa, Burma, or Western China. Wherever populations mix under pressure there's the potential for volatility. As a New York Times article reminded its readers in 2014, the Rwandan massacre had its roots in the population policies of European governments.In 1884, 130 years ago, European powers gathered in Berlin for a conference under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck that historians depict as setting the rules for the scramble for Africa among outside powers that soon fractured it into a jigsaw of new nations. If tribal patchworks were the legacy of 19th-century European imperialism, then multicultural populations are the consequence of the global world. Economic advantage demands them but there are dangers lurking in those arrangements. For example, the inclusion of the Muslim parts of Mindanao into the predominantly Christian Philippines under the Treaty of Paris caused mischief beginning with the U.S. vs Moro Wars that continues to this day. After the Muslim insurrection in the early 1970s, the mayhem became chronic, with gangs shooting up mosques, rebels kidnapping school children, and warlords killing journalists en masse. The latest chapter, the Battle of Marawi, had hardly ended before the NYT was warning that Mindanao may be the next stronghold of ISIS. It's now a conflict whose end no one knows. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Churches congregants in Africa are attacked all the time by Muslims but that is not considered major news here. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-03-17 17:46 |
| #8 Per Wiki: Pew research official statistics put the figure at under 1,000, or approximately 0.3% of the total population of Iceland. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-17 14:47 |
| #7 How many Muslims in Iceland? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-03-17 14:30 |
| #6 Man, human bites dog back. Thus the PMS MSM news leader. Piece of pork be upon them. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-03-17 13:04 |
| #5 And what does it say that they have to go back to Brevik for an example? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-03-17 11:31 |
| #4 Roosting chickens. |
| Posted by: charger 2019-03-17 11:29 |
| #3 The left has a massive guilt for this. Hyphenating nations into competing victim groups. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-17 11:00 |
| #2 After a massacre of Muslims committed by non-Muslims: Politicians publicly declare their solidarity with Islam and Muslims. This solidarity is also extended to Muslim organizations who are promoting totalitarian theocracy. Mosques get police protection. Political and social concessions to Muslims are made. Critics of Islam are pressured to shut up. If guns were involved there are calls for increased gun control. After a massacre of non-Muslims committed by Muslims: Politicians publicly declare their solidarity with Islam and Muslims. This solidarity is also extended to Muslim organizations who are promoting totalitarian theocracy. Mosques get police protection. Political and social concessions to Muslims are made. Critics of Islam are pressured to shut up. If guns were involved there are calls for increased gun control. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-03-17 10:47 |
| #1 New Zealand Muslims warned the New Zealand government to not send troups to fight ISIS in the ME or there could be a backlash. The mosque shootings were wrong, but these Muslims do support ISIS. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-03-17 07:26 |