Whereas, on March 15, 2019, a White supremacist armed with military-style semiautomatic weapons stormed the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center indiscriminately shooting and murdering 51 children, women, and men and injuring 40 others during Jumu’ah prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand; Whereas the entire attack seemed to be orchestrated for social media as the gunman livestreamed parts of the terrorist attack on social media for 17 minutes using a head-mounted camera; Whereas upon his arrest, the gunman admitted to police that his plan was to target worshippers in a third mosque then burn down the mosques after his attack, and that he wished he had done so; Whereas the terrorist attack targeted individuals solely on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and carried out in a place of worship; Whereas these attacks were motivated by an extremist ideology of White supremacy carried out by an individual who espoused racist and Islamophobic views; Whereas Islamophobia has been a growing threat to communities around the world; Whereas increased instances of Islamophobia and hate crimes committed against Muslims, or those thought to be Muslim, are partly a result of the response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, and the rise of hate speech and false coverage in the media and online chatrooms that continue to fuel the ignorance that drive certain individuals toward acts of hatred and violence; Whereas Islamophobia is an integral component of the White supremacist great replacement conspiracy theory, which the shooter embraced; Whereas the great replacement is an Islamophobic, antisemitic, racist, xenophobic, and misogynist conspiracy theory suggesting that White people are being intentionally replaced by invaders ; Whereas the great replacement conspiracy theory and rhetoric depicting immigrants and non-Whites as an invasion has been promoted by Members of Congress and other national leaders