The Christchurch massacre of Friday worshippers in two
mosques on March 15 focuses attention as never before on festering racial
hatreds and the rising tide of violence that gives expression to them. This
small New Zealand city was considered a most unlikely location for mass murder,
especially targeting Muslims. New Zealand, unlike Australia and other
white-dominated societies further west, is well integrated with its non-white
population and a stranger to the kind of systematic carnage le