The world responded. Profiles of tribute and touching commemorations were made by millions of people around the world in the days that followed. They did so on social media platforms, the modern forums of popular speech and protest, and in parks, squares, and schools. Mainstream media outlets—which had dedicated their pages to profiling the terrorist in the wake of his carnage—also turned a new page, honoring the victims and reclaiming the media terrain they had dedicated to the terrorist. Thanks to Ardern's call, faceless statistics were fleshed out into compelling elegies for readers across the world.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 983