Tag: Muslim

Pacific Media Watch A new media monitoring watchdog, Muslim Media Watch, published its first edition today featuring a cover story alleging that a Malaysian cult...

REVIEW: By Adam Brown How to be a Bad Muslim is a collection of 19 short essays by Mohamed Hassan, an award-winning poet and an...

By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter The widow of the final victim in the 2019 terrorist attack says things have not improved for New Zealand...

OPEN LETTER: By Mahvash Ikram Three years on from the Christchurch terror attacks on 15 March 2019, Mahvash Ikram writes an open letter to her...

MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter A counter-terrorism hui intended to help heal the wounds inflicted in Christchurch two years ago sparked a walk-out...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has shared warm greetings as the month of Ramadan ends and has wished the Muslim members...

By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch In 2017, the New Zealand media featured 14,349 stories that included the word Islam - nearly 13,000 of those...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Thousands flocked to the "Love Aotearoa Hate Racism" rally at Aotea Square in central Auckland today in solidarity with the Muslim...

Summer Joyan's open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Dear Prime Minister Ardern, I am a 13-year-old Muslim girl from Australia and I would like to...

By RNZ News All Black and devout Muslim Sonny Bill Williams hopes New Zealanders will embrace Islam more in light of last week's terror attack...

By RNZ News A Muslim leader has told a crowd of 18,000 at a vigil in the South Island city of Dunedin this evening the...

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed she will never mention the name of the man accused of killing at least 50 people in...

OPINION: By Sasya Wreksono in Auckland In the 20 years I’ve lived in New Zealand since I was little, I’ve never felt unsafe or been...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura A radical Muslim cleric faces being kicked out of Papua after more than 2000 Christians in Indonesia’s Christian-majority eastern province...

By Sofia Tomacruz in Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao Battle-scarred they might be, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have faced their toughest campaign yet. Armed with nothing but...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji's prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama has again hit out at opposition parties, calling them liars and accusing them of sowing division in...

OPINION: By Sharon Harvey and Sorowar Chowdhury The plight of the Rohingya people has hit the international headlines again. Following the August clashes in Rakhine...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk There was an unusual sight during the 1438th Eid (Eid al-Fitr) prayers at the Wonosari Square in the Gunungkidul regency of...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2) Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...

Jakarta has a new award for courage in journalism, honouring West Papuan editor Oktovianus Pogau who died last year. The inaugural award has been...

Video and images by the Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede. Video: Café Pacific More than 2000 people have taken part in a colourful and vibrant ...

ANALYSIS: By Wadan Narsey in Suva In 2016, two of Fiji’s main media organisations, the privately owned Fiji Times and state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, came...