Who created Brenton Tarrant?

Repercussions of last Friday's killings in the two New Zealand mosques at Christchurch will be unthinkable--no it's not a prediction but a projection of the horrible reality of a near future. To many it might appear that the systematic killing of 49 innocent Muslim worshippers inside the two mosques was the cruel exposé of an extreme anti-Muslim sentiment. Considering the wide-reaching repercussions of the massacre, it goes far beyond communal hatred.

The killing spree was not executed purely out of hate but to foment the West's misinterpretation of Islam, fuel communal hatred and extremism. The killing method, coupled with its up-to-date GoPro video recording technique was pre-planned. And to make it viral was the most dangerous side of the mayhem. Had it been a suicide bomb blast in the likes of an IS attack, the Islamic world's response would have been different. But since the video was live streamed on the Facebook by the killer and recorded by the social media, its impact will now be colossal and unthinkable. It's right on this point the question is now being repeated many times--why the Facebook allowed the 17 minutes live streaming of the carnage?

The video live streaming is enough to believe that the killer was not alone in his sinister scheme, and if you go through the Senator of Queensland's official press note--one cannot but get horrified how he attempted to justify the killings. His despicable words cut through butter like hot knife, adding salt to communal enmity.

If this is Australasia today, the anti-Muslim elements there, have forgotten that the 'Islamic extremist' forces are far much stronger, dedicated and headstrong to hit back. More than injuring the Islamic sentiment and religious belief, the assassin has harmed the geopolitical stability and the collective religious sentiment of the world.

He has reignited the dark and misled Islamic fraction to strike back. At least this writer will not be surprised if a similar act of vengeance takes place inside a church , shopping mall or any public place inside anywhere in Australia or New Zealand. Following the Friday shootings, now there is every possibility for the wrongly guided Jihadi elements to reconnect and regroup to strike back with even a bigger blow targeting innocent non--Muslims anywhere around the world.   

Therefore, the need of the minute is to locate and arrest the accused Brendon Tarrant (if that's his real name) quick, for the sake of unmasking the syndicate to have tempted him to carry out the killings. Many of us have followed, that in recent months the dark force to be carrying out terror strikes in the name of Islam was actually in the decline. Now it's time to uncover and pinpoint which non--Islamic syndicate has become so desperate to reawaken the nearly sleeping monster branded as 'Islamic terror'.

The bone-chilling video of shooting and its live streaming is actually aimed to create a global provocation. The cold-blooded barbarism of repeated shooting of victims even shames the Nazis and Yahya & Co. The point, however, the evil syndicate including the assassin, to have designed this massacre will further distance the Islamic world from the rest of today's civilisation. It's also a collective criminal attempt to vilify Islam and its followers backed by certain politicians and discriminatory law makers.

The biggest test for Islam and its Ummah is perhaps now than ever before: show restraint, spot the actual source of this carnage, and uncover the source before the public eye. How is it possible for a personal trainer at gym like Brenton Tarrant to get radicalised and get turn into an anti--Islamic fanatic? Who provided him the weapon engraved with the numerous dates and details of military landmark events? How do the events mentioned on his weapons correspond with last Friday's attack? And why would he undertake such a life-threatening risk, at what cost, and avenge whose interest? Not his for sure.

If this writer is correct, Tarrant was merely a disposable razor of his user. The root cause of the Friday massacre is deep rooted. Tarrant reportedly described himself as a 'regular white man, from a regular family' who was born in Australia to a working class, low-income family. He reportedly nave came too close to a practicing Muslim. Who radicalised him? 
 
Strangely enough, similar to this writer, Tarrant inherited his father's interest in physical fitness, but all for the wrong reasons for an ominous Friday. More than his anti-Islamic credence, he was actually deployed to serve the purpose of a greater evil and most probably a necessary evil. 
 
The bottom line--Western academicians have conducted more than enough research studies on 'Islamic radicalisation' and the destabilisation of world peace. Now is the best time to commence academic research works on the makings of non--Islamic radicals as Brenton Tarrant.

However, those research works are just too costly for a 'low-investment-higher- return' oriented Western world.

The writer is editor-in-charge, editorial section, The Daily Observer