The Al Noor mosque in Christchurch targeted by the killer has produced at least two terrorists from a very small congregation: al-Qaida recruit Daryl Jones, killed by a drone, and Christopher Havard.
The parents of these boys say their sons were radicalized by extremist preachers at Al Noor. The boys were in Yemen with the guys who trained the Charlie Hebdo killers. A 2014 story at Stuff.co.nz (now scrubbed from the internet) quotes a mosque attendee who says, “A visiting speaker from Indonesia talked about violent jihad and ...shared his views.”
Three questions:
1. How many news reports have you read these details in?
2. If you’d known that this mosque was a terrorist factory, would it have changed your feelings about the news at all?
3. How does it make you feel to learn that the media has been not just ignoring these facts but deleting stories to hide them over the past 24 hours?