All these Muslims had become at one in their new home country. It was their home. It was who they were. The kind of bigotry that led to the killings in Christchurch was fueled by the idea that this had not happened. That Muslims can never fully integrate. That they are permanently the “other.”

XREF: Connects to the Christchurch mosque shootings of March 2019 and broader patterns of far-right violence justified by anti-integration rhetoric.

XREF: Connects to broader discussions of immigrant assimilation, belonging, and the 'other' framing in anti-immigrant ideology.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 234