Four weeks on from the New Zealand mosques massacre, the istchurch Muslim community was struggling to get worshipers to overcome their fears and return to Friday prayers.
"They are still very scared," Linwood mosque Imam Ibrahim Abdelhalim told AFP. "Normally we would expect around 100, but now it's about 30."
A 28-year-old Australian, Brenton Tarrant, a self-avowed white supremacist, has been charged with 50 counts of murder and 39 of attempted murder after opening fire at the Linwood and Al Noor mosques on Mar 15.
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