The nearly 800-page report is the result of an extensive inquiry into the March 2019 mosque attacks in which 51 people were killed
The report’s recommendations include a new security and intelligence agency, a new counter-terrorism minister and strategy, and funding for research into NZ-specific extremism, AAP reports.
They also include new anti-terror laws, hate speech laws, social cohesion measures and workplace diversity for the public sector.
The imam of the Masjid An-Nur (Al Noor mosque), Gamal Fouda, the spokesman for the Muslim Association of Canterbury, Abdigani Ali, and general secretary of the Linwood Islamic Centre, Faisal Sayed, have said in a statement:
“We’ve known for a long time that the Muslim community has been targeted with hate speech and hate crimes – this report shows that we are right.”
