{"id":73775,"date":"2021-03-16T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=73775"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:45:53","slug":"new-zealands-ardern-says-world-needs-to-talk-about-racism-two-years-after-attack-on-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73775-new-zealands-ardern-says-world-needs-to-talk-about-racism-two-years-after-attack-on-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Ardern says world needs to talk about racism, two years after attack on mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-16_18-25-24.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The world still needs to have conversations about racism and white supremacy, New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, as the country marked two years since a white supremacist attacked two mosques in the city of Christchurch.<br>Armed with high-capacity semi-automatic weapons, Australian Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people and injured dozens when he opened fire on Muslim worshippers on March 15, 2019.<br>Tarrant released a racist manifesto shortly before the attack and streamed the shootings live on Facebook. The attack sparked a global debate about the threat of white supremacy.<br>\u201cThe world needs to have these conversations,\u201d Ardern said in a news conference.<br>\u201cIn the aftermath of the attack it was incumbent on New Zealand to get its house in order,\u201d she said, adding that it was not fair to say that because the terrorist came from Australia, that New Zealand didn\u2019t have a responsibility.<br>\u201cMembers of our Muslim community were experiencing some pretty horrific racism before that attack here in their own communities.\u201d<br>Ardern said every global leader has a responsibility as their voice can be broadcast anywhere, at any time.<br>\u201cCountries need to take that into account,\u201d she said.<br>Ardern apologised last year after a royal commission of inquiry into the country\u2019s worst massacre found that security agencies were almost exclusively focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before the attack.<br>When asked if New Zealand was a much safer place for Muslims now compared to two years ago, Ardern said: \u201cI am not the one to answer that, only our Muslim community can. But I can say right now, there\u2019s still work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world still needs to have conversations about racism and white supremacy, New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, as the country marked two years since a white supremacist attacked two mosques in the city of Christchurch.Armed with high-capacity semi-automatic weapons, Australian Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people and injured dozens when he opened &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[501,193,346],"class_list":["post-73775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-mosques","tag-new-zealand","tag-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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