New Zealand mosque shooting: Piers Morgan asks Donald Trump to denounce white supremacists or "be damned by his silence"
The mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque in Christchurch in New Zealand by suspected gunman Brenton Tarrant, 27, left 49 dead and at least another 20 injured. The suspect has been charged for murder and appeared in court on Saturday over them.
Before carrying out the shooting, Tarrant uploaded a 74-page, 16,500-word manifesto onto social media websites such as 8chan and Twitter in which he explained his motivations and reasoning behind the attack, including as revenge for "the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by foreign invaders in European lands," "the enslavement of millions of Europeans taken from their lands by Islamic slavers," and "the thousands of European lives lost to terror attacks."
Slamming Tarrant, Piers Morgan called the attack "an act of terrorism by a white supremacist that hates people not like him," pointing to a line in the manifesto where the 27-year-old had written he wanted to "ensure the existence of our people, and a future for white children’ and to ‘directly reduce immigration rates to European lands" as proof for his assertion.