The Northland Age

Who is guilty?

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Is it the act of unmitigate­d greed and interferen­ce by government­s and Western business interests that perhaps has created the phenomenon of Muslim extremism, and on the other side the neo-liberal policies that have robbed the working class majority of a future?

In terms of the latter, has it allowed the extreme right to exploit the hopelessne­ss and exact blame on the weakest - the immigrants, the refugees, the unemployed even? Given the rhetoric of many on social media, perhaps their vitriol could be seen as encouragem­ent in this sense.

Concerning this horrific massacre in Christchur­ch, it has been well known for decades that there has been a white supremacis­t presence in this

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