21 Mar 2019

ISIS threats not true Islam - Christchurch Muslims

From Morning Report, 8:20 am on 21 March 2019

A regular worshipper at the Deans Avenue mosque is pleading with New Zealanders not to see threats from Islamic State as representing the view of most Muslims. Islamic State has posted a threat online to take revenge for the shootings that claimed the lives of 50 Muslims. But Mohammad Nur told Christchurch reporter, Conan Young, most Muslims do not have revenge on their minds. Mohammad Nur moved from Christchurch only a week before the shootings and knows that if the gunman had planned his attack just a week earlier he too would have been caught up in it. He is feeling the loss of father and son, Naeem and Talha Rashid who went out of their way to make him feel welcome in this city when he first arrived four years ago from Bangladesh. Mohammad Nur will head back to his new home in Tekapo on Thursday but plans to return to Christchurch again to join his Muslim brothers for Friday prayers, which he hopes will again be held in the Al Noor mosque on Deans Avenue.