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Donning a black headscarf, NZ PM visits families of victims of Christchurch terror attack
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern visited the Muslim community at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch to express her solidarity wearing a black head scarf.
According to a report by the FCB News, she paid tributes to the dead by wearing a black scarf over her head as she consoled those present at the Refugee Centre. Arden says she is feeling the exact same emotions that every New Zealander is facing.
For her gesture, she was praised on social media.
So much respect for our Prime Minister right now. Flew down to #Christchurch this morning & met with the Muslim community who are grieving the loss of their loved ones. #NewZealandTerroristAttack pic.twitter.com/fgCLGgcqAl
— Kirsten (@KayC4EmJay) March 16, 2019
Sarah Ahmed, who had family members who survived the shootings, said she was touched by Adern’s decision to wear the headscarf.
According to the report, 48 people were admitted to hospital yesterday varied in ages. Four people died in ambulances before reaching medical care. Seven of those treated have now been discharged.
Of the 39 survivors who remain, some are in a stable condition and some are not. 11 are in intensive care.
Meanwhile, The UN Human Rights Council chief Michelle Bachelet has called the terror attacks on two mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 people dead as “racist, Islamophobic, and terrorist”.
However, an Australian senator Fraser Anning from Queensland, has said that the massacre happened because of ‘increasing Muslim presence in both Australia and New Zealand’.
I am utterly opposed to any form of violence within our community, and I totally condemn the actions of the gunman,” Anning said. “However, whilst this kind of violent vigilantism can never be justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand of the increasing Muslim presence.”
The senator claimed “left-wing politicians and media” would blame gun laws and nationalist views, but “the real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.”
Earlier US President Trump also dismissed concerns that the massacre by a white supremacist terrorist in New Zealand indicates a dangerous trend.
Trump was asked if the killing of at least 49 people in two mosques in Christchurch by a man claiming that white people are being overwhelmed in their historic homelands demonstrates a rising problem around the world.
“I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The terrorist — identified as an Australian white nationalist — livestreamed the assault on social media and published a manifesto filled with racist conspiracy theories.
He also referred to Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”
n the worst terror attack of New Zealand, forty-nine people have been killed and 48 more hurt, reported the New Zealand Herald.
One of the terrorists, an Australian, livestreamed the shooting at Al Noor Mosque in chilling 17-min video. In the video, he can be seen shooting indiscriminately at people inside the mosque. The terrorist can been seen changing magazines of his gun and shooting the dead over and over again.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has called it an unprecedented terrorist attack.
Earlier, Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison said that hooting in Christchurch was carried out by “an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist” who was an Australian-born citizen.
Moreover, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan while reacting over the massacre in New Zealand said that the act reaffirms the fact that ‘terrorism has no religion.’
He further added that these acts are happening due to increased Islamophobia post 9/11.
