Within days, she put on a hijab for an emotional meeting with members of the Muslim community. That swift action won praise from experts and the Muslim community, as the country reeled from the massacre. Before the Christchurch attacks, Paul Spoonley, a Massey University sociologist, said many New Zealanders wouldn't have been aware of their presence. "There's a tendency to dismiss (the Christchurch attack) as a one-off event," Spoonley said, adding that there was the potential for it to happen again. Fouda says it's important for all communities to work together to prevent anything like the Christchurch attacks happening again in New Zealand and elsewhere.

Source: CNN August 24, 2020 00:00 UTC