{"id":25271,"date":"2020-12-01T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/christchurch-inquiry-islamic-group-says-it-asked-for-help-before-attack"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:01:36","slug":"christchurch-inquiry-islamic-group-says-it-asked-for-help-before-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25271","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch inquiry: Islamic group says it &#8216;asked for help&#8217; before attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand security forces should have focused more on threat of rightwing terrorism, royal commission told<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Islamic community has told the Christchurch massacre inquiry that it knew it was \u201cvulnerable\u201d to a terror attack, and that security forces had wrongly focused on terrorism committed by Muslim extremists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked for help. We knew we were vulnerable to such an attack. We did not know who, when, what, where or how. But we knew,\u201d the Federation of the Islamic Associations of New Zealand said in a submission made public on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/01\/christchurch-inquiry-islamic-group-says-it-asked-for-help-before-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand security forces should have focused more on threat of rightwing terrorism, royal commission toldNew Zealand\u2019s Islamic community has told the Christchurch massacre inquiry that it knew it was \u201cvulnerable\u201d to a terror attack, and that securit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions\/25272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}