(Radio NZ) The Federation of Islamic Associations is accusing the Office of Ethnic Communities of being insensitive by scheduling community meetings during the holy month of Ramadan.
Eleven meetings will be held across the country over the next month, focused on the soon-to-be-established Ministry for Ethnic Communities and what its priorities should be.
Its creation was recommended by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks.
But Abdur Razzaq Khan from the Federation of Islamic Associations said it will be very difficult for many Muslims, who will be fasting for Ramadan, to be involved.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is considered one of the holiest. To mark this, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
