从匹兹堡教堂枪击案,看新西兰清真寺的屠杀
文章来源: 林向田2019-03-17 06:35:27

3月15日澳洲男子塔伦在新西兰一座清真寺内开枪造成至少49人丧命。塔伦行凶前几个小时,在网络上发表一份长达74页的宣言,详细叙述他执行大屠杀的计划。他在宣言中表示,他在法国旅行时看到“非白人入侵了法国”。

四个多月前匹兹堡 一名枪手高喊“所有犹太人都得死”,袭击了匹兹堡的一所犹太教堂,杀死了11名礼拜者,打伤另外六人。 嫌犯是46岁的鲍尔斯(Robert Bowers),来自匹兹堡。 鲍尔斯曾在网上发表很多反犹太人的帖子,其中包括袭击前还发过一篇。在另一个帖子中,他抨击美国总统特朗普没有采取任何措施阻止犹太人对美国的“侵扰”。

这两次恐怖袭击的共同之处是,白人极端分子对“非白人入侵了白人领地”的报复。

在匹兹堡教堂枪击案后白宫宣布特朗普将在10月30日赴匹兹堡悼念遇难者。《华盛顿邮报》称,在听到白宫宣布后,1300多人通过社交媒体联名发出公开信,称特朗普的言行助长了美国国内的仇恨情绪及暴力行为,他的到访“不受欢迎”。

下面是公开信全文:

特朗普总统,

周六,一名枪手在安息日早礼拜时屠杀了11名美国人。我们与受害者家属一起哀悼并为受伤者祈祷。在罗杰斯小区,我们感谢对突发事件做出快速响应的各方人士和远近邻居的大力支持。我们致力于愈合社区伤口,同时我们再次承诺修复我们的国家。

在过去的三年里,你的言论和政策推动了不断增长的白人民族主义运动。你声称凶手是邪恶的,但昨天的暴力行动恰恰是你影响力积累的恶果。

特朗普总统,在你没有彻底谴责白人民族主义之前,匹兹堡不欢迎你。

我们的犹太社区并不是你所针对的唯一群体。你还故意破坏有色人种,穆斯林,同性恋和残疾人的安全。昨天的大屠杀是受你煽动起来的、针对我国少数群体的又一次恐怖行为。

特朗普总统,在你停止把少数族群当靶子进行攻击危害之前,匹兹堡不欢迎你。

凶手最后一次公开声明援引了犹太人为难民服务的机构HIAS(Hebrew Immigrant Aud Society)的富有同情心的工作。在上周末,你散布谎言并播下对中美洲移民家庭的恐惧。他杀害了犹太人,其目的是反对把移民和难民看成人类命运相连的共同体,破坏为此而奋斗的所有人的努力。

特朗普总统,在你停止对移民和难民的攻击之前,匹兹堡不欢迎你。

正如犹太圣经上教导的,每个人都是按照上帝的形象制造的:“In God’s image”。这意味着我们所有人。

在我们的邻居,美国人和世界各地的人当中,我们已经找到了上帝的形象。虽然我们不能代表所有匹兹堡人,甚至不能代表所有匹兹堡的犹太人,但我们知道,我们是在为一个多元化但是联合的群体发出呼声:

特朗普总统,在你承诺承认我们所有人的尊严,推行富有同情心的民主政策之前,匹兹堡不欢迎你。

 

公开信英文原文

President Trump:

Yesterday, a gunman slaughtered 11 Americans during Shabbat morning services. We mourn with the victims families and pray for the wounded. Here in Mr. Rogers neighborhood, we express gratitude for the first responders and for the outpouring of support from our neighbors near and far. We are committed to healing as a community while we recommit ourselves to repairing our nation.

For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterdays violence is the direct culmination of your influence. 

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.

Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted. 
You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterdays massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.  

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities.

The murderers last public statement invoked the compassionate work of the Jewish refugee service HIAS at the end of a week in which you spread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America. He killed Jews in order to undermine the efforts of all those who find shared humanity with immigrants and refugees.

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you cease your assault on immigrants and refugees.

The Torah teaches that every human being is made btzelem Elohim, in the image of God. This means all of us. In our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God. 

While we cannot speak for all Pittsburghers, or even all Jewish Pittsburghers, we know we speak for a diverse and unified group when we say:

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you commit yourself to compassionate, democratic policies that recognize the dignity of all of us.

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