![]() ![]() In court for this first arrest, Brittenden pleaded guilty but said his celebration of mass murder was because he was drunk. While the discussion progressed, three women told the officers the defendant had earlier been repeatedly shouting “f*** the Muslims”. Brittenden argued he was exercising his freedom of speech and called police “right-wing fascists”. Police were clearing Castle St when the teen approached their patrol vehicle and said words to the effect of: “Muslims are not welcome in our country. ‘Brittenden - a law student at the University of Otago - was partying on the streets of Dunedin with other students on March 15. Despite being widely believed to have posted the image in Telegram, he was not charged with the threat but rather with not complying with a search warrant allowing police access to his encrypted device.īrittenden was previously arrested in March 2019, the day after the original attack, for celebrating it in the street. Three days later, police raided Brittenden’s home. This was taken seriously by authorities as an extremist threat, unsurprising given the context. “The same mosque, shitskins are still there, waiting to say hello brother for very last time” ![]() Selfie threat alledged to have been posted by Sam Brittenden outside the Al Noor mosque close to the first year anniversary of members of the mosque being murdered. And the case of high profile extremist Sam Bittenden helps us understand what this looks like in 2022. Anti-democratic and ultranationalist white supremacy ideas exist, migrate and take many different forms in different contexts. Instead, it situates such patterns of extremist violence within specific worldviews that are extensively networked, transnational in nature, and to a large degree are post-organisational.įar right political organisations still matter in understanding far right organising. While the full report is worth a read, section 5: ‘ Harmful behaviours, right-wing extremism and radicalisation’ dispels the myth of ‘lone wolf’ explanations of right-wing political violence. Leader of the IFP, Hermann Kelly has also consistently promoted ‘the great replacement’įollowing the 2019 attacks, the New Zealand government held a public inquiry and produced perhaps one of the most thoughtful and holistic examinations of not just a specific attack, but the wider context of far right radicalisation, extremism and nationalism. A former prominent member of the IFP has spoken at public meetings in different parts of the county about the evils of ‘cultural marxism’, before leaving the party and joining Gript, the political propaganda wing of Youth Defence. Those paying attention to the Irish far right will recognise these conspiracy theories deployed many times by leaders and members of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) and the National Party (NP). Indeed, the shooter named his manifesto ‘The Great Replacement’ Minutes before he published a manifesto seeking to justify his actions using conspiracy theories ‘cultural marxism’ and ‘the great replacement’. ![]() The killer livestreamed his Islamophobic mass shooting spree on Facebook to maximise its propaganda effect. On the 15th March 2019, news reverberated out from Christchurch, New Zealand following a terrorist attack on two mosques, which killed 51 people and injured another 40.
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