There is still much to do ‘After the Christchurch Protect condemnation, calls reforms Zealand Muslim leader

The day after a right terrorists convicted of killing 51 people in two mosques Christchurch to life in prison, the New Zealand Muslim Association president has not called for the country to lose sight of the much-needed reforms. “There are a lot of problems with which we are dealing with,” says Ikhlaq Kashkari time by phone Friday. “How can we ensure this does not happen in the future, what went wrong and how we make sure that these things be fixed?” Despite the distractions of COVID-19 and upcoming elections, he says New Zealand has to think carefully how to prevent further acts of extremism. The shooter, a 29 year-old Australian, who was convicted as a grieving survivors looked in prison without parole on August 27 for life. It ‘the first time that the sentence is introduced in New Zealand, which do not have the death penalty. “It ‘a closing early,” says Kashkari the judgment. However, he notes, right-wing extremists “have not disappeared, they are still there, have not disappeared.” The murderess was guilty of 51 murders, committing 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of a terrorist act for the attack in March 2019, for 17 minutes live streaming. It also has a 87-white-nationalist page “manifesto” in shared line. Within hours after the worst mass shooting in modern history of the country, the Government of New Zealand jumped into action, pledging reform. As the country reeled from the massacre, the prime minister Jacinda Ardern editing Arms Act proposals. Less than a month later, military-style New Zealand Parliament semi-automatic weapons have decided to ban. In June this year the country has taken to create a new arms recorded a legislation that gun license holders will be required updates as they buy and sell arms. Read on: A year after Christchurch, Jacinda Ardern has the world’s attention. How to use? The quick answer praise Ardern purchased globally. But they still have some changes promised not move so fast. Two weeks after the attack, New Zealand Attorney General Andrew Little said that the government would accelerate a review of its law “totally inadequate” hatred and human rights, but have not yet been implemented changes. “There are a lot of things the government has done, and there is still much to do”, says Kashkari, is part of a group is the Muslim community in an official investigation of the New Zealand attack. The survey, the Royal Commission, was the end of March 2019 launched by the government in being called “look at what could have or should have been done to prevent the attack.” It provides for a report on the results of the November 26 date more than 20 months after the massacre. Kashkari can not say on the specificity of its recommendations expressing its participation in the ongoing investigations since. But he said more general advice on how he believes the world fighting the growing challenge of extremism right. “Unfortunately, some countries – in particular in the most powerful countries, the largest – are more polarized ever,” he says. “This in itself give more air to the right sort of thing.” Changing laws of sedition to improve the education system of the country and culture can help to promote understanding, she says. Continue reading: New Zealand Ask attacks says White Supremacy total Homegrown exit to a global threat went, New Zealand is a very tolerant society, but the Muslim community continues to face challenges. For a proper closure and healing, says the government needs to figure out how to support the victims of the shooting last year in a long-term basis. broader issues are the lack of representation in some organizations and stigma against Muslims decision people make up about 1% of the country’s population of 5 million. Kashkari called for continued momentum of the underlying problems to deal with, even if the country navigates pandemic and an election delayed until October because of the crown. “It ‘s really important that this does not fall through the cracks that we as New Zealanders and our future government really sure we learn and we have taken concrete steps to ensure this does not happen again,” he says. He remains confident. “We are still trying to recover through this trauma, but we are a very strong community, in order to get through it,” he says.
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