Dehumanising Muslims played role in mosques atrocity

On Friday morning, Ireland woke to the news that at least 49 people were killed and dozens were seriously injured in a shooting at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.

Those murders were carried out by a white supremacist group that had been preaching anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas.

In the aftermath of such horrifying and tragic killings motivated by such unhinged hatred, it is tempting to avoid commenting at all ...