Sick Aussie video game uses Christchurch massacre footage and rewards gamers for killing players inside a mosque – The Sun
A VILE video game uses sick footage of the New Zealand mosques massacre and rewards gamers for killing players inside a Muslim place of worship.
The horrifying details emerged in a harrowing new report that warns Christchurch mosque terrorist Brenton Tarrant is being hailed via online forums as “St. Tarrant”.
Australian white supremacist Tarrant, 28, has pleaded not guilty to killing 51 worshippers during a shooting rampage at the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15.
Memes of his face and weapons used in the gun attack have been created, while online forums are glorifying the accused murderer, a New York Times investigation has found.
The publication says that despite the efforts of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and politicians across the globe, Tarrant’s ideology is still being spread online – reaching out through footage of the massacre, memes, games and messages.
The investigation even found that a video game, using an adaptation of the Christchurch carnage, continues to be played online.
Twisted people taking part in the first-person-shooter game enter a mosque, aim a gun and kill those in front of them.
Ardern refuses to allude to Tarrant in public, and has vowed to do everything in her power to stop his messages of hate being spread.
New Zealand's government has banned either the viewing or sharing of Tarrant's purported manifesto.
Shortly before the Christchurch terror attacks, a user of the 8Chan message board website – believed to be Tarrant – posted about their plan to carry out and livestream an attack.
'SICKENING' TERROR CONTENT
A manifesto was uploaded before the atrocity at two mosques in New Zealand’s South Island, and a video livestream was hosted on Facebook.
Newshub revealed in May that, in its investigation, it found New Zealand-based content showing a fake “tourist map” of the Christchurch massacres.
The alleged gunman was labelled on it as a “saint”.
Ben Buchanan, a cybersecurity expert at Georgetown University, said: “The internet is a very complex and rough environment and governments, especially small governments, don’t have as many cards as they would like to play.”
Two months ago, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May united with world leaders to demand tech giants wipe out “sickening” terror content from the internet.
Signing up to the "Christchurch Call" at a major summit in Paris, she demanded Facebook does more after it was used by twisted white supremacist Brenton Tarrant to livestream his massacre.
TERROR DEVOTEES ON MESSAGE BOARDS
Ben Decker, CEO of Memetica, a digital investigations firm, told the NYT that despite politicians' efforts, people are still searching for material connected to the Christchurch slayings.
Memes featuring Tarrant are on message boards 4Chan and 8Chan, Decker said, adding that many boards on the latter online message board are devoted to the alleged murderer, including forums hailing him as St. Tarrant.
Decker said there were "toxic communities trying to infect more mainstream congregations with xenophobia, Islamophobia and threats of mass violence".
Ardern wants 4Chan and 8Chan to stop extremist content on their platforms.
Last month, a New Zealand man was sentenced to 21 months in prison for distributing videos of the double mosques massacre in Christchurch.
Philip Arps, 44, pleaded guilty to two charges of distributing objectionable material after sharing copies of the livestreamed video with about 30 people.
Australian Brenton Tarrant has pleaded not guilty to 92 charges stemming from the massacre in the two mosques and will stand trial in May next year.
New Zealand mosques shooting
Fifty-one victims died in the shooting rampage at two New Zealand mosques, the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, in Christchurch on March 15.
A lone attacker opened fire upon worshippers during Friday prayers.
The death toll increased from 50 to 51 on May 2 after a Turkish man, who had been in intensive care since the attack, passed away.
Father and son Khalid Mustafa, 44, and Hamza Mustafa, 16, died in the shooting as well as 14-year-old Sayyad Milne.
Sayyad's father John paid tribute to his "brave little soldier" saying: “I remember him as a baby who I nearly lost at birth.
"It’s so hard to see him gunned down by someone who didn’t care about anyone or anything.”
The youngest victim was Mucad Ibrahim, three.
Ramiz Vora, 28, also died in the attack.
He had just become a new father and had reportedly only held his baby daughter once before he was killed.
His father Arif Vora, 58, was also killed in the mosque shooting.
A blood-drenched New Zealand massacre victim survived by “playing dead” after being shot in his leg before escaping through a mosque window.
Mustafa Boztas told reporters in Turkey that he “broke the window using my head and saved myself”.
Boztas was one of the few survivors and recently recounted the events leading up to the horrific ordeal.
He told Turkish media: “Everything happened suddenly when the imam was talking.
“I was bent on the floor and I saw the terrorist approaching me. He shot me in my leg and I pretended I was dead.”
He said that praying worshippers desperately tried to escape: “everyone started running and shouting”.
During a pause in the shooting, and despite being injured, he managed to smash a window with his head and save himself by leaping outside.
Another survivor, Farid Ahmed, managed to hide under a bench inside the mosque while the gunman “shot everyone”.
Aussie-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, flashed a white power symbol when he initially appeared in Christchurch District Court charged with murder.
He has pleaded not guilty to killing 51 worshippers during the shooting rampage.
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