(Radio NZ) The Facebook group for political think tank New Zealand Centre for Political Research has several threads taking aim at Muslim candidates standing in the local government elections.
Former ACT MP Muriel Newman founded the think tank in 2005.
Dr Newman said she did not know about the comments on its Facebook group.
The threads were largely in relation to two Christchurch-based Muslim community board candidates, Zahra Hussaini and Gamal Fouda.
(Salt Lake Tribune) Utah’s Muslim community has mushroomed from a simple student-led prayer group in the 1950s to more than 60,000 adherents of varied ethnicities and a dozen mosques today. It has produced doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, entrepreneurs and leaders contributing to […]
(News.com.au) The knifeman behind yesterday’s stabbing rampage had a USB full of terror propaganda, but he wasn’t a terrorist, experts say. Mert Ney, 20, ran through the streets of the Sydney CBD yesterday afternoon wearing a balaclava and brandishing a knife after […]
(NZ Herald) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand woman identified as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities should have been deported to Australia. The woman, named by ABC as Suhayra Aden, has been known to New Zealand and Australian authorities […]
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