by Heather Hastie | Apr 2, 2019 | New Zealand, Religion, Terrorism
It was two weeks on Friday since a self-confessed white supremacist changed New Zealand forever. Friday 15th March 2019 is a day many New Zealanders, including me, naïvely thought would never come to this country. It’s the day a terrorist committed mass murder...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 4, 2018 | Terrorism, US Politics
If you’re a Trump supporter, you’re probably thinking this will be a liberal hit piece. However, my conclusion has the support of all the data. Many commentators, including myself, have been writing about the dangers of Trump’s hateful rhetoric for some time. On...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 29, 2018 | Human Rights, Terrorism, US Politics
Most days I see examples of the fact of the high level racism in the US*. In particular, there is plenty of exposure of the racism against African-, Hispanic-, Latino-, and Native-Americans on my TV screen. When it comes to the sites I look at on the internet, the...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 15, 2016 | Terrorism
Professor Martha Crenshaw of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford is an expert on terrorism. Following are three videos produced in 2014 that make up one lecture, jointly titled Understanding Terrorism. The first video, What is...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 7, 2016 | Religion, Terrorism
I saw this Letter to the Editor in George Takei’s Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not sure which newspaper it’s from, but it’s probably an Australian one because the writer is from Kalangadoo, which is a tiny settlement in South Australia....
by Heather Hastie | Jun 20, 2016 | Middle East, Religion, Terrorism
Qatari professor Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari appeared on Saudi Arabia’s Rotana Khalijiya TV on 3 June 2016 as an advocate for the more modern form of jihad that many Muslims today are embracing. I found it particularly interesting as he is saying the same thing I...
