New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, rising day after day to her terrible duty, has been a textbook example to other-world leaders
as the victim of the attack as well as its Muslim community, and by demonstrating unity with that community, Ardern is intent on reducing the potential for revenge attacks.In Australia, the response to the Christchurch atrocity has, in some quarters at least, been less lofty.
Discovering that an Australian was the alleged perpetrator of the Christchurch atrocity poured fuel on the fire. So too did former One Nation Senator Fraser Anning’s indefensible blaming of the attack on Muslim immigration.a week ago, delivered direct into several hundred thousand homes and since viewed more than 13 million times online, was shocking for its opening statement that he was not shocked.
In 2016, Dutton said the Fraser government had made “mistakes” in parts of its immigration program, pointing to the number of people with "second- and third-generation Lebanese Muslim backgrounds” who were facing terrorism charges at the time. But a statement from the Australian National Imams Council was more pointed. Political leaders had to do more to counter Islamophobia, “including in relation to provocative and divisive speech” the council said. “ANIC takes this opportunity to thank the level-minded political leaders, journalists and people among us for their ongoing support in promoting tolerance, cohesion and inclusivity.”Words and actionsIn New Zealand, Ardern has thus far been successful in directing the media narrative.
On December 16, 2012, two days after a gunman mowed down 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six staff at a primary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, America seemed unified in grief as President Barack Obama wept while reading the name of each victim during a local memorial. Less than a year later right-wing and white supremacist groups rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, where among other things they chanted the slogans, "You will not replace us" and "Jews will not replace us".
"Your grandparents came here … and they returned in caskets," he said, referring to the World War I Gallipoli campaign. "Have no doubt we will send you back like your grandfathers."
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