A “well planned” shooting rampage took the lives of at least 50 worshippers during Friday afternoon prayers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocking a nation with little history of major gun violence. Dozens more people were injured in the shootings, which appeared to be motivated by white supremacist ideals and were streamed live, in part, on Facebook. The site moved quickly to take down the grim footage, but internet users moved faster, disseminating the video across social platforms. The video showed a man calling out, “Hello, brother,” as the armed shooter approached the entrance to one of the mosques and opened fire. “This is and will be one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a press conference. An Australian man, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was arrested and charged with murder on Friday. At a news conference, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the suspect, whose name has not been officially released, an “extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist.” The man appears to have posted a link online to a lengthy manifesto packed with white supremacist references and trollish remarks shortly before the attack. Authorities have two other people in custody; one has been charged with “intent to incite hostility or ill-will.” Explosive devices were also found attached to a car nearby. The two mosques ― Al Noor and Linwood, about three miles apart ― were full of people on Friday, generally the busiest day of worship. Among the dead are grandparents, married couples, parents and young children. Some arrived as refugees; others were Kiwi-born. This post will be updated as more of the victims’ names become known. Daoud Nabi, 71 SBS Daoud Nabi The selfless grandfather died trying to save someone else from a bullet, his son told NBC News, citing others who saw it happen. Omar Nabi, Daoud Nabi’s 43-year-old son, said that his father was an engineer who took the family to New Zealand in the 1980s after the Soviet Union invaded their home country of Afghanistan. Daoud Nabi went on to use his experience for the sake of others, working to help other refugees acclimate to New Zealand, greeting them at the airport when they arrived. “Whether you’re from Palestine, Iraq, Syria — he’s been the first person to hold his hand up,” Omar Nabi told NBC News. He provided a photo showing Daoud Nabi beaming alongside his granddaughter. “I’m a bit lost,” Omar Nabi added. “He is a man of lots of knowledge, and I’ve been his student for a long time.” Naeem Rashid, 50 Naeem Rashid is being hailed as a hero after video shows him attempting to wrestle the gunman. “He was a brave person,” Rashid’s brother, Khursheed Alam, told the BBC. “I’ve heard from people there... there were a few witnesses who said he saved a few lives by trying to stop that guy. It’s our pride now, but still the loss ― it’s like cutting your limb off really.” Rashid was killed along with his 21-year-old son. Talha Rashid, 21 Talha Rashid died with his father, Naeem, during the shooting. His uncle, Khursheed Alam, told CNN he was a Pakistani native and a student who had been living in New Zealand for seven years. Lilik Abdul Hamid Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Twitter the death of Lilik Abdul Hamid. The ministry gave its “deep condolences” and offered “prayers for the deceased and the family left behind,” according to a CNN translation. Abdus Samad A professor and former faculty member of the Bangladesh Agriculture University was killed in the shooting, according to BDNews24.com, a Bangladeshi news site, citing Samad’s younger brother Habibur Rahman, who lives in northern Bangladesh. Rahman revealed that their elder brother had died during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in the early 1970s. “Now we’ve lost another brother in [a] terrorist attack,” Rahman told BDNews 24. Samad was reportedly in his 60s. His wife, Kishowara Begum, also died in the shooting. Australia’s Bangladeshi Counsellor Farida Yasmeen also confirmed Abdus Samad’s death to BuzzFeed. Kishowara Begum Kishowara Begum was married to Abdus Samad and also among those killed in Friday’s attack, the United News of Bangladesh and BDNews24.com reported. Hosne Ara Parvin, 42 Hosne Ara Parvin died while trying to save her husband, who was in a wheelchair, according to the United News of Bangladesh. BuzzFeed also confirmed Parvin’s death with the Bangladeshi counselor. Parvin was in the female prayer section of the mosque when the shooting began, according to the United News, which reported that she fled toward her husband but was fatally shot. She hailed from the Jangalhata village of Golapganj Upazila in Bangladesh. Shafiqur Rahman, Bangladesh’s honorary consul in Aukland, told The Associated Press that he knew of three Bangladeshis who had been killed in Friday’s attack, though he did not reveal their names. Kahled Mustafa Kahled Mustafa fled Syria to make a new home in New Zealand last year. Kahled Mustafa came to New Zealand with his wife and three children to escape the violence in Syria just last year. A friend of the family told Stuff, a New Zealand news site, that the Mustafas had “survived atrocities” in their home country and “arrived here in a safe haven only to be killed in the most atrocious way.” Syrian Solidarity New Zealand provided a photo of Mustafa on its Facebook page, explaining that he had been at the mosque with his two sons, one of whom may also be among the dead. His wife and daughter are in “total shock, devastation and horror,” the group said, as they try to look after the other boy, who was hospitalized. Hamza Mustafa, 14 Hamza Mustafa was killed along with his father, Kahled Mustafa. His 13-year-old brother who was in the mosque with him is in stable condition, according to CNN. Atta Elayyan, 33 Facebook Atta Elyyan was a soccer player who worked in tech. Atta Elayyan was killed while praying inside the mosque, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Elayyan was the goalkeeper for the national and Canterbury men’s futsal teams ― a variation of soccer. Elayyan was a new father who worked in tech and was an avid community member of Christchurch as his social media posts show. Abdullahi Dirie, 4 Little Abdullahi Dirie was attending the mosque with his father and four siblings, his uncle confirmed to The Washington Post. Abdullahi’s father, Adan Ibrahin Dirie, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds but managed to call his brother-in-law, Abdulrahman Hashi, who lives in Minnesota, to tell him all but the 4-year-old had made it out alive. “You cannot imagine how I feel. He was the youngest in the family,” Hashi told the Post. “This is a problem of extremism. Some people think the Muslims in their country are part of that, but these are innocent people.” The Diries fled violence in Somalia in the 1990s, resettling in New Zealand. Hussein Al-Umari, 35 Hussein Al-Umari was a regular attendee of the Al Noor mosque and was killed in the shooting, his mother confirmed on Facebook. “It is with great sorrow we came to know our son Hussein Hazim Hussein Pasha Al-Umari is a martyr,” his mother, Iraqi Janna Ezat, wrote. “Our son was full of life and always put the needs of others in front of his.” Al-Umari and his family moved to New Zealand from the United Arab Emirates 22 years ago. He had gotten dinner with his family the night before the shooting, his mother told Stuff. Haroom Mahmood Haroom Mahboob was one of six Pakistani nationals who were killed during the massacre, Pakistan’s Foreign Office Spokesman Mohammad Faisal announced on Twitter. He leaves behind his wife and two children ages 11 and 13, according to the New Zealand Herald. He was originally from Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad. Syed Jahandad Ali Syed Jahandad Ali was among the victims announced by Pakistan’s foreign office. His wife, Amna Ali, told the New Zealand Herald that she last spoke to him during breakfast on Friday. Sohail Shahid, Syed Areeb Ahmed, Naeem Rashid and his son Talha Naeem Pakistan’s foreign office also announced that these victims had died during the attack. No other details were provided.<doc-sep>HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE The country of New Zealand is joined together in mourning the 49 people who were shot and killed after a white man carried out an attack on two mosques. As details of the horrific act of terrorism continue to develop, many on Twitter are rallying around the victims, their families, and the nation abroad. According to The Guardian, three other individuals have been detained in connection to the shooting with one 28-year-old man deemed as the shooter. A rambling, disjointed manifesto has been uncovered by investigators but some journalists are saying the right-wing ideologies posed there are buried in other nonsensical details. Reaction on Twitter to the crime has been ongoing since news broke, including support from Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who hails from New Zealand. We’ve collected a number of these reactions below. — Photo: Getty<doc-sep>Muslim students have berated Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the New Zealand mosques massacre, saying she is to blame for the attack. Clinton, who is pregnant with her third child, was attending the vigil at New York University on Friday when senior Leen Dweik began castigating her in an astonishing moment caught on video. 'This right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words that you put out into the world,' says Dweik, gesturing to the vigil for the 49 who were killed in Christchurch when a white nationalist shooter stormed two mosques. 'And I want you to know that and I want you to feel that deeply - 49 people died because of the rhetoric you put out there,' Dweik continues, jabbing her index finger toward Clinton as other students snap their fingers in apparent approval of her words. Clinton was attending the vigil at New York University on Friday when a female student began laying into her in an astonishing moment caught on video 'This right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words that you put out into the world,' said Dweik People attend a vigil held at NYU Kimmel Center to mourn for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand, Manhattan on Friday 'I'm so sorry you feel that way,' Clinton responds, only to provoke more ire from the crowd. 'What does "I'm sorry you feel that way" mean? What does that mean?' an unseen male is heard shouting from the crowd. According to NYU student Rose Asaf, who posted the video on Twitter, students at the vigil were angry about Clinton's accusation last month that Rep Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, used 'anti-Semitic language and tropes' while criticizing Israel. Omar came under heavy criticism within her own party for her remarks, in which she suggested that money plays a role in U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. Clinton was one of many who condemned Omar's remarks, writing in a tweet: 'We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.' Chelsea Clinton (center) watches during the NYU vigil. Some student were angry at her presence though, and berated her for criticizing Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar Democratic representative from Minnesota Ilhan Omar (left) prepares to address several hundred students at rally outside the US Capitol on Friday Asaf blasted Clinton for her criticism of Omar, saying that the former first daughter had incited a 'mob' against the Muslim congresswoman. 'People haven’t forgotten the Islamophobic mob she incited against @IlhanMN. There is no sense of responsibility,' wrote Asaf, who identified herself as a 'Jewish leftist' in her Twitter profile. Asaf has served in the NYU student senate as Senator at-Large for Marginalized Jewish Students, Student Activists, and Students With Mental Health Struggles, according to published reports. Asaf wrote in a tweet that Dweik is a 'bold a** palestinian muslim woman' who 'doesn't have anything to apologize for.' Her Twitter account has since been set to private. Rose Asaf, who posted the video, has served in the NYU student senate as Senator at-Large for Marginalized Jewish Students, Student Activists, and Students With Mental Health Struggles A man holds a placard at a vigil on Friday held at NYU Kimmel Center to mourn for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand Imam Khalid Latif, Muslim Chaplain at NYU speaks at a vigil held at NYU Kimmel Center to mourn for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand Dweik was tagged in Asaf's post as Twitter user @vivafalastin, whose profile says she is an NYU senior and features the Palestinian flag. Dweik wrote in a Twitter post about the vigil: 'i was on the verge of tears all day today and actually cried on my into and during prayer but the charade of a vigil where more non-muslims than muslims spoke and chelsea clinton was invited made me so viscerally angry and i will not apologize for that.' Dweik was identified in a November article as an Alternate Senator-at-Large for Middle Eastern and North African Students and Documented Non-citizen Students at NYU. A dozen are still in critical condition after Friday's attack in New Zealand, where a heavily armed shooter stormed two mosques, firing indiscriminately in a horror massacre that he broadcast live on Facebook. Australian-born Brenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in court on Saturday to face initial charges in the case. Brenton Tarrant, the accused Christchurch shooter, appears in court on Saturday. He is seen making an 'OK' sign with his hand, which has been adopted as an ironic white power symbol Tarrant, 28, originally from Grafton, New South Wales but more recently a resident of Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island, was arrested and charged for the attack He stood in the dock wearing handcuffs and a white prison smock, as the judge read a single murder charge against him. A raft of further charges were expected. Tarrant posted a manifesto online prior to the attack, in which he stated that he was an 'eco-fascist' opposed to Muslim or other immigration to Western countries. He wrote that he hoped the attack would heighten divisions over gun control policy in the U.S., which he speculated would lead to a civil war along political, cultural and racial lines. Tarrant in his writing cited U.S. conservative commentator Candace Owens as the single greatest influence on his radicalization. Owens, who is black, dismissed that claim as 'pointedly absurd' in a statement.<doc-sep>
The self-proclaimed racist who attacked a New Zealand mosque during Friday prayers in an assault that killed 49 people used rifles covered in white-supremacist graffiti and listened to a song glorifying a Bosnian Serb war criminal. These details highlight the toxic beliefs behind an unprecedented, live-streamed massacre, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” One man was arrested and charged with murder, and two other armed suspects were taken into custody while police tried to determine what role they played. The cold-blooded attack shocked people across the nation of 5 million people, a country that has relatively loose gun laws but few gun homicides and is so peaceful police officers rarely carry firearms. It is also generally considered to be welcoming to migrants and refugees. The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings left a 74-page manifesto that he posted on social media under the name Brenton Tarrant, identifying himself as a 28-year-old Australian and white nationalist who was out to avenge attacks in Europe perpetrated by Muslims. Using what may have been a helmet camera, he livestreamed to the world in graphic detail his assault on worshippers at Christchurch's Al Noor Mosque, where at least 41 people were killed. An attack on a second mosque in the city not long after killed several more. Police did not identify those taken into custody and gave no details except to say that none of them had been on any watch list. They did not immediately say whether the same person was responsible for both shootings. Some of the material posted by Tarrant resembles the meme-heavy hate speech prominent in dark corners of the internet. Beneath the online tropes lies a man who matter-of-factly wrote that he was preparing to conduct a horrific attack. MUSIC The shooter’s soundtrack as he drove to the mosque included an upbeat-sounding tune that belies its roots in a destructive European nationalist and religious conflict. The nationalist Serb song from the 1992-95 war that tore apart Yugoslavia glorifies Serbian fighters and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, who is jailed at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide and other war crimes against Bosnian Muslims. A YouTube video for the song shows emaciated Muslim prisoners in Serb-run camps during the war. “Beware Ustashas and Turks,” says the song, using wartime, derogatory terms for Bosnian Croats and Muslims. When the gunman returned to his car after the shooting, the song “Fire” by English rock band “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown” can be heard blasting from the speakers. The singer bellows, “I am the god of hellfire!” as the man, a 28-year-old Australian, drives away. SYMBOLS At least two rifles used in the shooting bore references to Ebba Akerlund, an 11-year-old girl killed in an April 2017 truck-ramming attack in Stockholm by Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek man. Akerlund’s death is memorialized in the gunman’s apparent manifesto, published online, as an event that led to his decision to wage war against what he perceives as the enemies of Western civilization. The number 14 is also seen on the gunman’s rifles. It may refer to “14 Words,” which according to the Southern Poverty Law Center is a white supremacist slogan linked to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” He also used the symbol of the Schwarze Sonne, or black sun, which “has become synonymous with myriad far-right groups,” according to the center, which monitors hate groups. HISTORICAL REFERENCES In photographs from a now deleted Twitter account associated with the suspect that match the weaponry seen in his live-streamed video, there is a reference to “Vienna 1683,” the year the Ottoman Empire suffered a defeat in its siege of the city at the Battle of Kahlenberg. “Acre 1189,” a reference to the Crusades, is also written on the guns. Four names of legendary Serbs who fought against the 500-year-rule of the Muslim Ottomans in the Balkans, written in the Cyrillic alphabet, are also seen on the gunman’s rifles. The name Charles Martel, who the Southern Poverty Law Center says white supremacists credit “with saving Europe by defeating an invading Muslim force at the Battle of Tours in 734,” was also on the weapons. They also bore the inscription “Malta 1565,” a reference to the Great Siege of Malta, when the Maltese and the Knights of Malta defeated the Turks. The names of two 15th-century Hungarian military leaders known for fighting against the advancing Ottomans are also mentioned.