The women of New Zealand showed another and just the opposite way to the world about perceiving about the Muslims after the recent Mosque attack. Expressing their solidarity, the women of New Zealand wore headscarves on Friday and gathered in front of Al Noor Mosque of Christchurch and prayed for the deceased in the recent attack.
"I wanted to say: 'We are with you, we want you to feel at home on your own streets, we love support and respect you," told a doctor in Auckland to the Muslims who lost 50 of their family members, friends and community members in the recent Mosques' shootings.
Showing the world a way to change their perception about Muslims, the women also gave a strong opinion about communal harmony and universal brotherhood.
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"Why am I wearing a headscarf today? Well, my primary reason was that if anybody turns up waving a gun, I want to stand between him and anybody he might be pointing it at. And I don't want him to be able to tell the difference, because there is no difference," said a Christchurch local girl.
Jacinda Adern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand also joined the prayers and has received praise and appreciation across the world for standing stronger with the victims and their families.
"It is a symbol of purity culture antithetical to feminist values. We have women in jail and dead, for refusing the interpretation of Islam you promote," tweeted a US professor Asra Nomani. A