Originally Posted by
Balance
Contrived?
You will be interested to know that there are many enlightened Muslims living in NZ who are refugees and families who want to be away from the oppression of the Islamic regimes around the Muslim world.
Not just Iranians, Afghans but Iraqis, Somalians, Indonesians and Pakistanis.
Suggest you mix around a little more (start with your local Islamic community centres) and observe how they actively try to stop the radical Muslim influences in NZ. Not for them the hatred spewing radicalism seen in the UK of some of the Muslim clergies there.
I am proud to count on many of them* (including those on the PM's religious advisory board, past & present) as my friends.
*BTW - One of them rang me on the day of the massacre before the news broke and he was on the plane the next day to Christchurch to advise the government on how to manage the response to calm things down.