NZ Muslims 'don't feel any safer' a year after mosque massacre

51 worshippers were killed at Friday prayers by a white supremacist in the Christchurch attacks. FMTNews NZ

CHRISTCHURCH: Aliya Danzeisen rises before dawn every day to hear the news so she can prepare her school-age daughters for any harassment they may face for being Muslim.

But she says it is now on the rise again, a year on from the killings that rattled the normally peaceful South Pacific nation, with unease among the Muslim community amid ongoing vitriol and threats. Following the massacre at two mosques in the South Island city, New Zealand’s government moved swiftly.

In a recent threat to the Islamic Women’s Council “they told us that they knew what we were doing, who we were, who we were meeting with and they were watching us and there was a mention of poisoning”. The impact spreads beyond New Zealand. At the Al Noor mosque Jabara Akhter Juti said her family in Bangladesh remain “very concerned about me” since she moved to Christchurch last year with her husband.

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