PARIS—When the 28-year-old man charged with murder in the terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand posted a manifesto on social media claiming responsibility, he described himself as “just a ordinary White man” from a working-class family in Australia.
What fueled his animosity to Muslims, he wrote, was a 2017 visit to Western Europe and, in particular, France. Many of the ideas contained in the lengthy screed—including its title “The Great Replacement”—echo the writings of 72-year-old French author Renaud Camus.
The Christchurch attacks are a sign of how France has become an incubator of white nationalism across the West, from its struggle to integrate one of Europe’s largest Muslim populations to the rise of the anti-immigrant firebrand Marine Le Pen.
Mr. Camus has argued in lectures and a book that white Europeans are facing reverse-colonization by immigrants arriving on the continent from Africa and the Middle East, a notion he described in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday as “genocide by substitution.”
WSJ
writers who spout hateful trash/can take credit for the splash/of the blood in carnage when/monsters idolize their pen/no amount of prating silt/can erase their awful guilt.
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