Alexandre Bissonnette obsessively searched for Donald Trump on social media and posed with a MAGA hat in the months before he killed six Muslim men at a mosque in Quebec City.
Alexandre Bissonette wore the hat.
A Canadian, Bissonette hadn’t voted for Donald Trump. He lived in a French-speaking province, far from the U.S. president’s campaign rallies and “America first” appeals. But some of the first photos to emerge of the 27-year-old after he stormed a Quebec City mosque and killed six Muslim men in January 2017 showed him wide-eyed with a slight smirk and a red “Make America Great Again” cap casting a shadow over his pallid face.
“Make America Great Again” has become more than a U.S. political slogan. For Bissonette and other white nationalist, radical right and anti-immigrant extremists all over the world, it’s a symbol; a kind of political messaging that transcends […]
We need to stop writing about these people on the extremes. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet now and the DNA bell-curve is very broad now. This means that the extremists are becoming more extreme, and this is just a natural occurrence due to our large population base. They are not monsters, they are not to be feared, they are among us due to the imperfections of the DNA. The world is the safest it has ever been; no use to sensationalise a single instance of a DNA-merge.