re: "NZ horror began and ended online" (BP, March 15)
Dear editor,
The livestreamed evil from the zealously devoted fanatics of their ugly white supremacist ideology says it all too clearly.
It is precisely to escape such deadly ideological zealotry at home that many moderate, peace loving Muslims, democrats, Christians, atheists, republicans, Buddhists and others migrate to better countries, such as New Zealand. It does not matter what inspires the hate that sees violence as a solution, good people speak out against such use of force against demonized groups in society, not only those hated for their religion or atheism, or for their ethnicity, but also the gays and differently gendered, and those demonized because of their political views, even communists, monarchists and republicans.
It is an ugly fact that religion has always been a powerful force for hate that inspires violence, whether the Christian crusaders and inquisitors, the ideological purists of communism reeducating in their gulags, the Islamic jihadi, the zealous fascism of the Nazis, the toxic nationalist monks of Burmese Buddhism, Maoists disappearing critical thinkers, the hate-filled Hindu nationalists of India and so on. Atheists and the non-religious can also commit evil, but it takes religious fervour to kill in the name of your chosen ideology that demonizes others.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on March 17, 2019, under the title "Killing in the name" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1645984/shopping-for-a-judge
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