12 Mar 2024

Linwood Islamic Centre Imam to meet Prime Minister

From Morning Report, 7:25 am on 12 March 2024

We don't want to become another America - that's the message the Linwood Islamic Centre's Imam will share with the prime minister today in a private meeting today ahead of the fifth anniversary of the March 15th terror attacks. 

Fifty-one men, women, and children were murdered with high-powered firearms at Masjid An Nur and the Linwood Islamic Centre in 2019. 

The Labour-led government announced a ban on military-style semi-automatics and assault rifles less than a week later. 

The National-led coalition is now re-writing those laws to allow competitive sports shooters access to semi-automatics. 

Linwood Islamic Centre Imam Lateef Alabi, and secretary Said Mostafa spoke to Corin Dann

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