New Zealand mourns. That 50 people, including a three-year-old, murdered by an Australian right-wing extremist murdered in two mosques in Christchurch last week, deeply shook the country and led to an unprecedented wave of sympathy in the previously terror-free four-million state: over ten million New Zealand dollars So far, donors have been donated to the victims, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern showed her attitude when she asked Donald Trump the day after the attack for "compassion and love for all Muslim communities". The 38-year-old woman met the families of the victims in a black hijab - a symbolic gesture that went around the world and made such a strong impression on New Zealand's women that they called for a solidary "head scarf Friday", which was followed by thousands.

In this demonstration of humanity and multi-culture burst on Thursday, when the first six victims were buried, a social media photo that shows the Canadian best-selling author Jordan Peterson on his reading trip a month earlier in Christchurch with a fan. "I'm a Proud ISLAMAPHOBE" ("I'm a proud Islamophobe") stood wide but misspelled, on the man's black T-shirt. This image also had symbolic power: Jacinda Ardern, a new light on the world stage, embraces Muslim victims - Jordan Peterson, controversial publicist and favorite of the Old Right ideologues, puts his arm around a Muslim haters.

This is @jordanbpeterson and a fan during his speaking tour in New Zealand.

February 19th, 2019. Less than one month ago. pic.twitter.com/kQzhY39eSl

- Dan Taipua (@D__T_____) March 15, 2019

The company OMG VIP, which hosted the fan event, deleted the photo from their website. Whitcoulls, New Zealand's largest book retailer, also took Peterson's books out of their range. The decision was "in the face of quite disturbing material that circulated before, during and after the Christchurch attack", said the company by mail. "As a business that takes its responsibility to our communities very seriously, we believe it is wrong to support the author in these times."

The psychology professor Peterson is according to "New York Times" the currently "most influential intellectuals of the western world" and controversial as a stirrup holder of right-wing ideologues. His bestseller "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" has sold millions of copies since the beginning of last year. His YouTube channel is followed by two million viewers. He earns about $ 100,000 a month through the Pantheon donation platform. His lectures are sold out within hours.

In Germany, where the translation of "12 Rules for Life" did not appear until October, the Peterson phenomenon has not yet taken on a grand scale, even though "Die Zeit" and Der Spiegel have already devoted many pages to it. The book alone does not spark the same effect as all the videos, podcasts, and interviews in which Peterson disseminates semi-scientific theses that pinpoint the evils of today's world on the left, on political correctness, and on feminism.

Especially white men under 35, who feel threatened by # MeToo-combatants to migrants, celebrate him as a savior - and because he points the way for many with his fatherly moralizing Lebenshilfe ("Just sit down," "Clean up your room "). With this almost mystical effect, it was at least many kiwis in the week after the mosquito massacre suddenly over.

The 28-year-old assassin had filmed his act for over 16 minutes and invited the spectators of the appalling live stream to watch the Swedish YouTube star PewDiePie - who in turn had Peterson in the program. Peterson also appeared in the channel of the Alt-Right blogger Stefan Molineux and publicly defended his colleague Lauren Southern when she tried to stop the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean. The two also came to New Zealand from Canada last year, but were recalled by the Auckland City Council for their openly racist stance: Hate speech against minorities is unacceptable in the bi-cultural country. When Southern and Lauren finally organized another event space after a lot of protest, their performance there was called off at the last minute - leading to weeks of public debate about freedom of speech.

The call for free speech is now, after the decision of the book chain Whitcoulls, relatively quiet. In Internet forums, instead, it is discussed whether Peterson's own hostile attitude towards Muslims can be proved with whom he can be photographed after a reading. However, he did that himself earlier on Twitter, where he once suspected that feminists would not criticize Islam because they unconsciously longed for male dominance. Islamophobia, according to the author, is "a fascist-invented word used by cowards to manipulate idiots."

# 2 of questions to get crucified for: Do feminists avoid criticizing Islam because they are unconsciously long for masculine dominance?

- Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) September 28, 2017

Gamal Fouda has used this word several times. He is the imam of Christchurch. At the first public prayer after the attack, he stood yesterday with 15,000 people in front of the Al Noor Mosque, whose interiors had to be repainted because of the massacre. He had looked in the eyes of the killer a week ago. After thanking the Prime Minister present and all the New Zealanders - "for your grief, your haka, your flowers, your love" - ​​Fouda found clear words. "Islamophobia is real, Islamophobia kills."