A Dark Day

Floral tributes near Linwood mosque

Last Friday 15, in the early afternoon, what is now believed to be a sole gunman committed a preplanned terrorist attack on the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in my home city of Christchurch. Currently, the death toll stands at 50, with a further 50 suffering injuries that range from critical to minor. The dead include men, women, and children as young as three years old.  As I write this, a four-year-old girl is still fighting for her life in Auckland’s Stars...