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    After Christchurch, Commentators Are Imitating Sebastian Gorka

    Everyone seems to have discovered at once that belief systems are behind individual atrocities.
    by Graeme Wood Mar 28, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Edgar Su / Reuters

    After the 2015 Paris attacks by ISIS commandos, Donald Trump’s counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka wrote these notorious lines, blaming the ideology of “radical Islam” for the atrocity:

    These attacks are the latest manifestation of a growing and globalized ideology of radical Islam that must be addressed at its source—which includes the mainstream imams and media personalities who nurture, promote and excuse it … They were inspired by a thriving online ideological structure that recruits and radicalizes mostly men to save “the caliphate” from “the kuffar [infidels]” … The threat we’re facing isn’t just individual terrorists. It’s the global ideology of radical Islam. We have

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