{"id":25575,"date":"2020-12-11T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/11\/new-zealands-christchurch-muslim-women-should-not-have-to-bear-the-burden-of-rebuilding-after-christchurch-on-their-own"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:39:08","slug":"after-christchurch-new-zealands-muslim-women-shouldnt-have-to-rebuild-on-their-own-aliya-danzeisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25575","title":{"rendered":"After Christchurch, New Zealand&#8217;s Muslim women shouldn&#8217;t have to rebuild on their own | Aliya Danzeisen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report into the mosque attacks basically told those affected to fend for themselves \u2013 the government must support us<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, strong women leaders are regularly referred to as w\u0101hine toa. This is not a term used lightly, but rather a title given to women who show exceptional leadership and continue to support those around them even in the face of enormous difficulties. Some might refer to New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, as a w\u0101hine toa, but it can be also used for women within general society who display consistent courage and strength.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/christchurch-shooting\">15 March 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack<\/a>, 51 people (47 men and four women) died in two mosques. As fate would have it, the majority of those who were lost were male \u2026 and the majority of those left to shoulder the impact, to pick up the pieces and to take charge were female \u2013 wives, mothers, daughters, sisters. Leading a family is a challenge on a regular day, but under such circumstances, after such a violent, destructive act, it has unsurprisingly been daunting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/11\/new-zealands-christchurch-muslim-women-should-not-have-to-bear-the-burden-of-rebuilding-after-christchurch-on-their-own\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report into the mosque attacks basically told those affected to fend for themselves \u2013 the government must support usIn New Zealand, strong women leaders are regularly referred to as w\u0101hine toa. This is not a term used lightly, but rather a title gi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"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-25575","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\/25575","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\/1742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions\/25577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}