The shooter’s white, Islam-free Europe is imaginary. But European islamophobia is very real | Opinion NewZealandShooting
The massacre of 49 worshippers in two mosques in New Zealand was accompanied by the release of a 74-page manifesto. Tiresome and self-aggrandizing though it is, it does what it says on the tin— sets out the killer’s rationale for his actions. In his mind, he was defending a “white” European culture from “invaders” of a different color and creed, who are threatening the author’s self-proclaimed tribe simply by having the audacity to migrate and to breed.
As recently as 2011, rants about the threat of immigration to"white""civlilization" were the purview of the likes of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian homegrown terrorist by who massacred young progressive activists on an island retreat and blew up a car bomb in the heart of Oslo. . Today, in 2019, right-wing populism can be found mainstreamed completely in Hungary, most visibly, of course, in the person of Viktor Orban.
And it’s not just the jackboot thugs on the street corner. In the U.K., noted public philosophers like Roger Scruton and the “radical orthodox” of English Anglicanism, John Milbank, can hardly be described as rabble rousers. But their public interventions, when it comes to Islam and Muslims,, echoe those of far less sophisticated and more recognizably extreme figures.
Scholars and philosophers in Spain and Portugal; intellectuals and politicians across southern Europe; legal thinkers and theologians in Italy; Tatars in Lithuania and Poland; the Ottoman heritage across much of southern and eastern parts of the continent. That is not even taking into account converts to Islam among the European intelligentsia, including in Britain and France, Switzerland and Germany, in latter modernity, following the fall of Muslim Iberia and the Ottoman state.
Indeed, Milbank compares the presence of Muslim Westerners—who mostly, particularly in the European context, constitute the working class—to the armies of Muslim communities of the past which ruled large parts of Europe. It is hard to see the comparison to be made—but it plays directly into the fear of ‘EurArabia’, that underpins so much of the contemporary right-wing populist discussion around Muslims in Europe.
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