New Zealand Unites Against Deadly Bigotry
“New Zealand mourns with you. We are one.” That was how New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed Muslims during Friday prayers. Meanwhile, thousands made a human chain around the Kilbirnie Mosque in Wellington, symbolically protecting worshippers inside against the sort of attacks that killed 50 people in Christchurch a week earlier. The government moved swiftly to ban military-style assault weapons and women wore headscarves to show solidarity with the victims.
What’s the latest response?
On Saturday New Zealand also banned the killer’s manifesto — a move certain to provoke debates over limiting expression, no matter how objectionable.
SOURCES: The Hill / DW / Daily Mail / CNN