COMMENT: For many, the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand are difficult to reconcile with the image of a country known for its friendliness, hospitality and egalitarianism.
For many, the racist and Islamophobic attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left at least 50 people dead, are difficult to reconcile with the image of a country known for its friendliness, hospitality and egalitarianism. New Zealand is, after all, referred to as Godzone by many of its citizens.
According to Pratt: “New Zealand was never intended to be opened up as a paradise for all-comers: only the specific groups who could be accommodated within its homogeneous domains would be welcomed.” Brenton Tarrant, the Australian man behind the Christchurch attacks, comes from a country with a deep and poisonous well of racist politics, from which contemporary racism can and does draw. His political manifesto,, suggests that his politics borrow from the ideology of “a white man’s country”.is used as shorthand by the new right in Europe and its settler colonies to refer to the paranoid notion that Muslims are trying to replace white populations and Islamise Western countries.
Today, it continues to support the myth that perpetuates the colonial illusion that “the country is special”. This illusion is entrenched. Richard John Seddon, prime minister of New Zealand at the turn of the 19th century, famously deemed New Zealand “God’s own country”. When the Hagley Community College in Christchurch built a prayer facility for the Muslim students in the early 2000s, then minister of education Trevor Mallard condemned the college “for using taxpayers’ money to build a mosque”. The prayer facility was referred to as a “government-funded mosque” in the national press and often treated as if it were some sort of scandal.as a complete shock often neglect to note the history of racist attacks on mosques in New Zealand.
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