Comment: Far-right racists want to destroy open societies
First, they both seek revenge for crimes against "our people". The lead bomber for the July 7 2005 terrorist attacks, Mohamed Siddique Khan, proclaimed in a Yorkshire accent, addressing Brits at the height of the Iraq war, that "until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not stop this fight". Osama bin Laden claimed to avenge Palestine.
Omar Nabi, Yama's brother, holds a photo of their father, 71 year old Haji Daoud who was killed in the Masjid Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch.The "grey zone" is pluralism of peoples and peace. Similarly, the terrorist in New Zealand was direct in his reason for violence: "To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.
The killer in New Zealand explained his aim to "eventually destroy the current nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought".
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