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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Two Islamic schools in South Auckland have been closed for

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Speaker 2: the day and they've called the cops regarding a threatening email.

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Speaker 2: A video has come in featuring a man shooting guns.

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Speaker 2: It was email to the principle of Al Madina School

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Speaker 2: in Mangare at about eleven o'clock last night, and some

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Speaker 2: other staff at the school were also sent the email.

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Speaker 2: Abdu Razak is the chairperson of the Federation of Islamic

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Speaker 2: Associations and with us. Now, hey, I'm done.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let me clarify kill I'm not the chairperson chairperson

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Speaker 1: of the Royal Commission.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, sorry about this. So you're the chairperson of

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Speaker 2: the Royal Commission.

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Speaker 1: Here by facts?

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Speaker 2: Here am I having a crack at the educators and

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Speaker 2: I kind of get this stuff right? Hey, listen, have

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Speaker 2: you seen this email?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Yes I have, Okay, what did you see?

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Speaker 1: Look? I really can't talk about the details of it, because,

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Speaker 1: as you know, it's a police are investigating, and it's

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Speaker 1: best we let it be, have some patience and they

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Speaker 1: do what they do best, and I think that would

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Speaker 1: be that's I can say. I have seen the email.

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Speaker 1: I also seen the video and frankly, I was so

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Speaker 1: shocked and then I can understand very much why the

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Speaker 1: kids and that would be very traumatized. Well, what's happening

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Speaker 1: if and the school administration, the community, they're all, you know,

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Speaker 1: and our concern is the welfare and well being. Look,

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Speaker 1: the police are tracking and tracing and we hope we

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Speaker 1: get this. This would be terrorist, you know, or a

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Speaker 1: crackpot who is having a go at our Muslim community.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just us, you know, as you know,

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Speaker 1: with the global thing where it is now, it could

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Speaker 1: happen to us. You know, another school could happen to

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Speaker 1: a synagogue, it could happen to a community, a women's center,

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Speaker 1: and like for us, there are important lessons from this

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Speaker 1: and those are sort of we put on our press release.

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Speaker 1: One is that we need to make sure our national

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Speaker 1: security settings are properly done and we fund it properly.

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Speaker 1: As the Royal Commission gave some suggestions, I see the

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Speaker 1: current government is because of fiscal constraint clowing back on

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Speaker 1: some of them. I just want them to have a

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Speaker 1: look at it because it's national security at stake. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: we are saying, you know, there's no coincidence that you know,

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Speaker 1: now we've got all this talk about the Associated minister

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Speaker 1: reintroducing the ministry style saving automatic weapon. Well, this actually

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Speaker 1: relates to that. As you know, I want to come

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Speaker 1: back to that.

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Speaker 2: I want to come back to that. I'll do just

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Speaker 2: quickly on this. What does your gut tell you? Is

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Speaker 2: this a crackpot or is a loan actor like an

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Speaker 2: actual terrorist?

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Speaker 1: Look, put it this way. I don't go with guts

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Speaker 1: because it's people's lives fifteen much. For us, we rely

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Speaker 1: very much. Yeah, I've got to be very careful and

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Speaker 1: for us the community is very careful as well. We

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Speaker 1: take this very seriously.

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Speaker 2: You know, do the police know who this is?

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Speaker 1: We don't know. Police is keeping us informed. They're tracking

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Speaker 1: and tracing and they do a very good job for

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Speaker 1: our pastic experience for it that way. And I talked

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Speaker 1: to one of the principles and it says the first

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Speaker 1: time that received something, so you know, it so serious.

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Speaker 1: So when I was talking to police, you know, they

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Speaker 1: are taking it very seriously. They are looking into this.

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Speaker 1: You know, this kind of bomb threats and other threats

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Speaker 1: are quite common, you know, and they take each one

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Speaker 1: very seriously, and we particularly take it seriously. You're right.

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Speaker 2: Listen, the Herald is reporting this. The video featured a

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Speaker 2: man showing guns in the car and randomly shooting. Is

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Speaker 2: that accurate.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is accurate what they're saying. And that's all

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Speaker 1: I can say. I mean, the Herald's already reported. Look,

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Speaker 1: I know from my experience and these kind of things.

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Speaker 1: And when I say my experience going on marching team,

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Speaker 1: we really totally will be guided by the police and

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Speaker 1: they will give the information because they really need to

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Speaker 1: do a track and trace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah on this, did you did? I was watching the

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Speaker 2: news last night or perhaps the night before, I can't remember,

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Speaker 2: and there was a report about Nicole McKee going to

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Speaker 2: a meet and she, apparently, according to Thomas made at

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Speaker 2: One News, wasn't wearing a head scarf. Was that a problem?

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Speaker 1: Look, it's a christ just matter. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get into of it. I mean, as far as we

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Speaker 1: are concerned, Uh, it's you know, the people they go

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Speaker 1: to the mosque, their respect. We accept them for who

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Speaker 1: they are. You know, some people have some people haven't

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Speaker 1: in the past, but you know, it's a sign of respect.

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Speaker 1: It's Twice's not the major issue. The major issue is

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Speaker 1: the guns. All these are side issues for us is

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Speaker 1: the is the discussion and the debate on the semi

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Speaker 1: autograd when the registry and all that and those kind

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Speaker 1: of issues. Cool.

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Speaker 2: Abdulla listen. I always appreciate your time. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Abdour resarct the Federation, well, I was going to say

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Speaker 2: that again. Wasn't I a Federation of Islamic chair Now

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Speaker 2: he's the chairperson of the Royal Commission.

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