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Difficult to put into words the scenes we saw today as New Zealand marked the one week anniversary of the #Christchurch mosque massacres. For me it’s this photo I took shortly after prayers ended — to me it sums up how the nation has responded to the gunman’s race hatred 🇳🇿 🕌
The white supremacist racist gunman wanted to sow destruction and division. He may have succeeded on the first. But he has so far miserably failed on the latter.
Never have I seen so many non-Muslims flock to support Muslims as their pray.
I mean just look at those crowds
Tributes and solidarity everywhere you look
Women dressing in hijab for a day was a particularly touching gesture. Yes, not all Muslim women wear headscarves, but #HeadscarfForHarmony was about solidarity, nothing more
"Obviously this is all spurred on by the terrible tragedy in Christchurch, but it's also a way of showing that any form of harassment or bigotry based on a symbol of religion is never okay," @MillsWorkman told me
au.news.yahoo.com/kiwi-women-don…
When the prayer memorial ended in Christchurch, Ahmad Khan stood shoulder-to-shoulder with three Maori men in traditional dress as they all stuck out their tongues — report by @curious_scribe and I for @AFP

dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/arti…
Joy feels like an odd adjective to describe today but both @curious_scribe and I were struck by how many people, Muslim and non-Muslim, wanted to emphasise that the day was a celebration of love over hate.
Defiance, tears and joy as Christchurch unites — @AFP

au.news.yahoo.com/defiance-tears…
"We knew we had done our duty to our martyrs"

Interview for @AFP with a volunteer who helped prepare 50 bodies for an Islamic funeral alongside Christchurch doctors. I thank Mo for giving me an insight into this heartbreaking ordeal

au.news.yahoo.com/duty-martyrs-p…
Delighted this thread & its message has been picked up widely so will use it to highlight more reporting @AFP did this week. In this @curious_scribe & @deCarteretD reported from inside one of this week’s funerals (they had family’s permission)

au.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/dont-c…
Until shortly before, we didn’t know Mohemmed Daoud Nabi was going to be buried that day. Coincidentally I spent that morning writing about the words he reportedly used to greet his killer: “Hello Brother”. A phrase now embraced across New Zealand

news.yahoo.com/hello-brother-…
This lovely piece earlier in the week by @AFP’s Chris Foley, who lives outside Christchurch, explained why Kiwis adopted the haka as a way to show grief and solidarity with those killed

sg.news.yahoo.com/live-die-zeala…
This report was filed the first time we noticed members of the public standing in solidarity behind Muslims as they prayed in the park

news.yahoo.com/christchurch-m…

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Jerome Taylor
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4 years ago today -- at this time -- the streets of central Hong Kong looked like this.

I took this about an hour after police fired tear gas at pro-democracy students demonstrating outside the city's legislature.

That move prompted thousands of HKers to come out in support
I had been covering the protests that day & went to go charge camera batteries when the phone started buzzing with messages about the tear gas. I raced back to Admiralty subway station below the protest site where students had set up makeshift first aid stations
Exiting the station the acrid smell of tear gas was unmistakable. The police had donned gas masks while protesters did what they could.
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Jerome Taylor
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Major development for Golden Triangle cartel watchers: US has (finally) sanctioned the Laos/Chinese Zhao Wei cartel as an organised crime group. Story by @AFP here sg.news.yahoo.com/us-hits-notori…
Here’s a link to the US Treasury’s press release, detailing how US authorities accuse the Zhao Wei group of, among other things, trafficking heroin, adult and child sex slaves and endangered animals home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
This is hugely embarrassing for Laos and a rare public allegation of how the communist nation is a weak link in the fight against organised crime. The Zhao Wei group own a massive casino — the King’s Roman — in a “special economic zone” on Laos’ border with China
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IlmFeed
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Transcript of the khutbah (sermon) given by the Imam today at #Christchurch, one week on from the terrorist attack that martyred 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand 🕌🇳🇿
Arabic: All thanks and praise is due to Allah, we seek his help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil within ourselves and the consequences of our evil deeds. Whoever Allah guides will never be led astray, and whoever Allah leads astray will never find guidance.
Arabic: I bear witness there is no God but Allah, alone without any partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His Servant and His Messenger.

#Christchurch 🕌🇳🇿🤲🏼
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Khaled Beydoun
@KhaledBeydoun
I don’t know the terrorist’s name. Nor do I care to know it.

Im keen on knowing the names, remembering the stories and celebrating the lives of the victims.

All 49. Please join me. #49lives
"The Hero" | Say his name: Naeem Rashid.

One of the 49 #ChristChurch victims.

After he witnessed his son Taha shot and killed, and men and women slain around him, he lunged at the terrorist with his bear hands.

He was courageous until the very end - and died a Hero.
"The Youngest" | Muca Ibrahim was only 3 years old.

He was killed by terrorist in #ChristChurch, and is the youngest of the 49 slain Muslims. He has his whole life ahead of him.

Remember him like this, smiling wide, with his brother Abdi.
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Eminens DOC✝️🙏
@SuperMartyrio
#Christchurch 1/5 “We have been left speechless before such violence, which in order to complete its stubborn program of death, would not stop even at the threshold of a church ... Where, where is the world going? ... I repeat it again today: Where are we going?” -St John Paul II
#Christchurch 2/5 Pope John Paul was addressing the murder of St. Oscar Romero, whose martyrdom we will commemorate later this month. His words seem to apply to the barbaric attack in New Zealand, also an attack on a house of worship. They make us ask again, “Where are we going”
#Christchurch 3/5 Perhaps the most providential thing about this attack on our Muslim brothers and sisters is that it took place in a name called "ChristChurch," to help us see it not just as an attack on a Mosque, but an attack against the sacred, indeed, an attack against God.
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Divya Kumar Soti
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#Christchurch Mosque shooter had references to Crusades written over his weapons. "Charles Martel" also written over his weapons. Charles Martel was the millitary commander who repelled Islamic invasion of France in 732 AD.
In this pic you can see "Vienna 1683" and "Acre 1189" written over Christchurch Mosque shooter's weaponry. In Battle of Vienna 1683, Christian Confederacy organised by Church fought against Ottoman Turk muslims. In Battle of Acre 1189, Christians fought against Egyptian muslims
In this pic, you can see "Gaston IV of Bearn" written over Christchurch shooter's weaponry. Gaston was viscount of Bearn was also known as "the Crusader" and fought in Reconquista of Spain and seige of Antioch against Turk muslims during the First Crusade.
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Julie Laumann
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Horrific. My thoughts are with the people of #Christchurch, especially the victims and their loved ones.

‘I saw dead people everywhere’: multiple casualties in mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque, reports of gunfire at a second mosque and a hospital thedailybeast.com/christchurch-m…
This is pure evil: the #Christchurch gunman filmed the mosque massacres with a helmet cam & posted it to social media.

In his manifesto (linked from 8chan), he identified himself as a 28-year-old man born in Australia & listed his white nationalist heroes
nyti.ms/2CloU7r
"[The #Christchurch gunman] described what he said had motivated him to carry out the attack, and said he had purposely used guns to stir discord in the United States over the Second Amendment’s provision on the right to bear arms."
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Watcher of the Dead
@WatcherDead
Linwood Cemetery; New Zealand
New Zealand founded in 1856
He was born in 1827
@LizCrokin @DailyCaller @BurnedSpy34 @SaraCarterDC @SaRaAshcraft @usembassynz @flyingKiwi7 @MAGA__OZ @freetelegraph @LisaMei62 @Graham__Hancock @TuckerCarlson
#QAnon #GreatAwakeningWorldwide #WWG1WGA
Not long after the post above, look what happened in Linwood Christchurch

New Freemason lodge opens up
19 Jan
bit.ly/2HmxcQe

In the same place as the tombstone above

#QAnon #GreatAwakeningWorldwide #WWG1WGA #Linwood #Christchurch #DarkToLight #Masons
And just today.....the Christchurch mass shooting, Linwood was one of those locations
nytimes.com/2019/03/14/wor…

Mass shootings never really happen here & our gun laws are very strict

How Bizarre

#QAnon #GreatAwakening #WWG1WGA #Linwood #Christchurch #DarkToLight #Masons
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