{"id":399870,"date":"2019-03-17T01:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/npr-source-cant-recall-people-ever-being-murdered-in-a-mosque-before\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T01:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T00:56:03","slug":"npr-source-cant-recall-people-ever-being-murdered-in-a-mosque-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/npr-source-cant-recall-people-ever-being-murdered-in-a-mosque-before\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Source Can\u2019t Recall People Ever Being Murdered in a Mosque Before"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On <\/span>NPR\u2019<\/em>s <\/span>Morning Edition<\/em> <\/span>(3\/15\/19<\/a>), Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, was interviewed by host David Greene about the mass murder of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Asked by Greene \u201chow common\u201d it is for online hate speech to turn into a \u201cmass shooting this terrible,\u201d Greenblatt responded:<\/p>\n

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Well, I think this act of violence really doesn\u2019t have a precedent as far as we know, murdering people in a mosque like this, and the social media dimension is something new. However, hate speech online is an increasing problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Greene didn\u2019t react on the air to Greenblatt\u2019s claim that there\u2019s never been a mass murder in a mosque before. But of course, this is far from the first Islamophobic murder to take place in a mosque.<\/p>\n

A little more than two years ago, on January 29, 2017, six people were killed by a gunman at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City in Canada. Last year, covering the sentencing of murderer Alexandre Bissonnette, the <\/span>New York Times<\/em> <\/span>(5\/5\/18<\/a>) reported that<\/p>\n

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