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https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/18/robert-mercer-is-fueling-a-multimillion-dollar-anti-muslim-propaganda-industry/Carolyn Orr
Trumps top donor, Robert Mercer, is at the centre of a multimillion-dollar anti-Muslim propaganda industry responsible for creating and spreading the same Islamophobic rhetoric found in the New Zealand shooters manifesto.
While much remains to be learned about the terrorist attack targeting worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the 17,000-word manifesto posted online by suspected gunman Brenton Tarrant makes it clear that far-right internet culture and white supremacist propaganda played an integral role in radicalizing the 28 year-old attacker.
In the manifesto, Tarrant made frequent reference to the white genocide conspiracy theory, which claims (falsely) that white people are being replaced by non-whites through changes in birth rates, mass immigration, and forced assimilation. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the belief system surrounding so-called white genocide represents one of the most deeply held white supremacist convictions.
More than $200 million was pumped into the anti-Muslim propaganda industry between 2008 and 2013.
The manifesto is riddled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, mostly in reference to the beliefs associated with the white genocide conspiracy theory. Throughout the document, Tarrant repeatedly referred to Muslims as invaders trying to take over the West, and lamented the high fertility rates among Muslim populations.
Tarrant frequently returned to the conspiratorial idea that whites are facing an existential threat due to increasing numbers of Muslims and other immigrants coming to predominantly white countries and destroying the culture. The word destroy appears 25 times in the document, while references to birth rate (or birthrate) and fertility appear 43 times, and references to Western or European culture appear 47 times.
malaise
(268,885 posts)This is the source of international Islamophobia and more than a few have enriched themselves from it.
Get thee to the greatest page
0rganism
(23,937 posts)just put the ideas out there, the perpetrators will follow eventually
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on religion. So rather than influence public policy, which they cant, they hope to influence radical dipshits who will inevitably take direct action.
Maxheader
(4,371 posts)from the rest of the world..Let those handjobs never receive any
of the benefits our Muslim brothers and sisters have bestowed on the world..
-medicine
-engineering
-compassion...wisdom...friendship...
brer cat
(24,547 posts)many others in the trump circle are terrorists and I wish our media would make that clear. They are encouraging genocide. Tarrant is the result and unfortunately only one of many they have primed.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Whatever happened to that?
SaintLouisBlues
(1,244 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)I don't know much about the man except he is in bed with the devil but I'm sure some well placed rumors might knock him off of his despicable self.
Like maybe he has sex with dogs? Someone would know more about this.
Considering the man is causing the deaths of many many people I think an extraordinary measure is called for to fight him.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)SMoss
(112 posts)Upheavles in Muslim countries and immigration from those countries is being driven by drought, climate change. If we don't do something about climate change, global warming, we are going to see a lot more disparate people heading for Europe, Australia, and North America. We are also going to see a 10% drop in crop production as a result of a 2 degree rise in average yearly temp in the USA.