India, March 21 -- The mass shootings in two mosques in Christchurch , New Zealand, on March 15 have caused 50 deaths. Understandably, these have left the world shocked, grieving and angry. New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Arderne, rightly said, "What has happened here is an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence." Her country has seen nothing like the March 15 massacre.
Horrific savagery accompanied the crime. The gunman, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, killed in cold blood not just men but fleeing women and girls, besides shooting at piles of motionless men and boys. What explains such utter savagery? The obvious answer is hatred for Muslims arising from a White supremacist Christian fundamentalist-racist worldview steeped in Isl...