Brenton Tarrant was just another regular white man. So regular that he believed that a country where he was not a resident or a citizen was his own. … So regular that he walked into two mosques and massacred fifty-one people. Innocent people he called “intruders” and “invaders.” “Intruders” in a country that they lived in and were born in. “Invaders” in a city where they owned homes and held passports that he did not.

XREF: Connects to discourse on settler-colonial logic and the normalization of white terrorism as discussed by Pankaj Mishra or Ece Temelkuran.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 942