The Christchurch terrorist referred to himself as a 'kebab removalist' - a loaded term steeped in racism. This is how 'ethnic' food became a rallying cry for bigots Opinion | ialmarashi
. The song conflates “kebabs” with the Bosniak Muslims, a way of accusing them of being more Turkish than Slavic, painting this community in the same broad brush stroke with the Ottoman army which defeated the Serbian prince Lazar in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. In this case, kebab remover was a song designed to justify the mass murder of Bosniaks during the civil war.
The song was resurrected on the Internet in 2006, and since then had become popular among radical white nationalists. From the war zone in Bosnia, the song travelled to New Zealand. The animus towards the kebab, a pernicious euphemism for Islamophobia, is not just a fixation in the minds of Serbian paramilitaries or Tarrant, but rather is embedded in a sentiment expressed by the European far-right, where all foods coming from the Middle East are equated with Muslim immigration.depicts what is assumed to be Ottoman-era janissaries overrunning eastern and central Europe. Below that image is Europe being overrun by the modern-day janissary.
This political cartoon expresses a motif that has been politicised by the Freedom Party of Austria. In 2010 it issued its ownThe Party campaigned on the claim that the rising number of kebab shops threatened traditional Austrian sausage snack stands. The party used the graphic novel to link the past to the present. The Ottoman janissaries standing outside the walls of Vienna in the late seventeenth century are conflated with the kebab stands in the present.
Like the Freedom Party of Austria, Italy’s right-wing Lega Nord used the same fear of Middle Eastern food in its electoral campaign. One of its most famousreads “Sì alla polenta, no al couscous,” or “Yes for polenta, no to Couscous,” arguing in favour of the northern Italian staple made from boiled cornmeal versus the North African staple of small steamed balls of crushed durum wheat semolina.
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