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Muslim nations call for measures against Islamophobia New Zealand minister defends mosque attack response at OIC meeting
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 22 - 03 - 2019

Muslim nations on Friday called for "genuine" measures against Islamophobia after the attack on two New Zealand mosques that killed 50 people.
Violence driven by Islamophobia requires "genuine, comprehensive and systematic measures to address this affliction," ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said in a statement after a meeting in Istanbul.
The OIC said attacks against mosques and murders of Muslims showed the "brutal, inhumane and horrific outcomes" of hatred of Islam.
It called for countries with Muslim communities, minorities or migrants to refrain from "statements and practices that associate Islam with terror, extremism and threats" to society.
Meanwhile, New Zealand on Friday defended its reaction to its worst mass shooting, telling Muslim countries meeting in Turkey that the police response to the killing of 50 people was "instantaneous" and the perpetrator would spend life in prison.
Speaking to the OIC, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters was responding to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan who has said Turkey would make the suspected attacker pay if New Zealand did not.
Erdogan's comments at a series of election campaign rallies — including calling on New Zealand to restore the death penalty and repeatedly showing video footage of the shootings that the alleged gunman had broadcast on Facebook — triggered a diplomatic dispute between the nations.
"This person will face the full force of New Zealand law, and will spend the rest of his life in isolation in a New Zealand prison," Peters told the OIC, meeting in emergency session to discuss Islamophobia and the March 15 shootings in Christchurch.
"Our police have started the largest investigation in our history," said Peters, who had earlier condemned Erdogan's airing of the footage as risking endangering New Zealanders abroad.
The OIC meeting in Istanbul was also attended by Erdogan, who briefly met Peters on the sidelines.
Addressing the conference separately, Erdogan struck a conciliatory tone, saying the empathy and reaction displayed by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern since the incident "should be an example to the world."
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, has been charged with one murder following the attack and is likely to face more charges.
Erdogan, who is seeking to drum up support for his Islamist-rooted AK Party in March 31 local elections, again showed footage of the shooting at a rally on Thursday.
For nearly a week he has described the mass shooting as part of a wider attack on Turkey and threatened to send back "in caskets" anyone who tried to take the battle to Istanbul. He has also shown extracts from a "manifesto" posted by the attacker and later taken down, drawing condemnation from New Zealand and Australia.
Ardern has said Peters went to Turkey to "confront" Erdogan's comments, and she repeated on Friday he was there to "set the record straight."
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier this week called Erdogan's comments "deeply offensive" and summoned Turkey's ambassador for a meeting, though on Thursday he said progress had been made and "we've already seen the moderation of the president's views." — Agencies


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