christchurch mosque attacks

Media spotlight survivors and victims as gunman faces justice

Many feared this week's sentencing of the 15 March gunman would become a pulpit for him to spread white supremacist dogma. But instead, the spotlight was on the righteous anger, resilience, compassion, and ultimately love, of his living victims.

enAugust 29, 2020

Episode 8: The Closing Chapter - Widows of Shuhada

A year has passed since the massacre. The widows reflect on the gunman, making this podcast series, and starting a new chapter of their vastly-different lives.

enJune 01, 2020

How a young white supremacist did a radical u-turn

Caleb Cain got lost in an internet world of white supremacism. What happened to get him to make such a radical u-turn that he's now preaching from the other side of the page?

enMarch 25, 2020

Stage 5: Acceptance

And finally, hopefully, acceptance. Sheikh Gamal Fouda, the imam of Al Noor mosque, traveled the world offering a message of peace. But he found his own inner peace here at home.

enMarch 12, 2020

Stage 4: Depression

After bargaining, the depression. It was felt by Muslims even half a world away, who experienced the 'vicarious trauma' and thought maybe they were right to worry about their safety after all.

enMarch 11, 2020

Stage 3: Bargaining

After anger comes bargaining. 'If only we had taken better care of our Muslim neighbours'. But we hadn't and many Māori stepped up, drawing on their own experience of exclusion.

enMarch 10, 2020

Stage 2: Anger

After denial comes anger. Guled Mire became a spokesperson for his community after the mosque attacks, but when he showed anger at the death of innocents, he found the tide shifting.

enMarch 09, 2020

Episode 3: Together - Widows of Shuhada

United by their faith and loss, three of the four widows come together to share their grief, hopes and feedback on New Zealand’s response to the tragedy. Muhubo breaks her silence about that day.

enMarch 09, 2020

Stage 1: Denial

Mohamed Hassan works through the five stages of grief felt by Muslim New Zealanders after the March 15 attacks. Stage one is denial; he talks to Hassan Raslan, who spent three days helping with the burials.

enMarch 08, 2020

life and society

Episode 2: That Day - Widows of Shuhada

The widows take us back to March 15th. Farah heads for the hospital, while Hamimah and Neha learn about the attacks from overseas. Muhubo hears the entire massacre from the women's area of Al-Noor.

enMarch 08, 2020