Islam New Zealand

A comprehensive chronology of the local Muslim community to 2016

This site was formerly hosted at Blogger, where it was hacked in July 2015. I won't speculate about who the hackers were, except to say that they were presumably among those I have criticized during the past few years — either on this site or in tweets and Facebook posts. The hackers may, of course, strike again. But if they do, I will at least have some highly professional technical support — something I didn't have at Blogger. Since early in 2015, this site has incorporated the domain aliblahblah.com.

Screenshot of the hacked site

Japanese irises in my Palmerston North garden.

I am a retired journalist in Palmerston North, New Zealand. All the views expressed on this website are either my own or those of the respective authors. Nothing should be taken as authoritative. — Adil Ireland, Palmerston North, NZ

Ben Palmerston North, Yeni Zelanda da yasayan emekli bir gazeteciyim. Bu web sitesindeki tüm görüşler ya benim kendi, veya ilgili yazarlar tarafindan yazilmistir. Bu gorusler bu konuda otoriter gorusler olduklari ileri surulemez.

أنا صحفي متقاعد في مدينة بالمرستون نورث، نيوزيلندا. جميع الآراء التي أعرب عنها في هذا الموقع هي إما وجهة نظري الشخصيه أو وجهة نظر المرجع المشار اليه.المعلومات المنشورة ينبغي أن لا تؤخذ على انها موثوقة.

The ihram I wore for the Hajj of 1990
My Hajj pilgrim's ID card
My alias for the Medina flight: Ahmed F
Arab News covers my Hajj
The piece of the kiswah I brought back
My Hajj poems in Music in the Air

Uri Avnery, of Gush Shalom, gives a Jewish perspective. Click on the image, which shows "Saracen horsemen" from the 14th century.

Man jailed for having ISIS videos, 2016
Fighting Prejudice, Christchurch, 2016
Ramadan begins, 2016
Radicalized Kiwi a 'good boy', 2016
Syrian refugees put down roots, 2016
Thank you, says refugee, 2016
Shaymaa setting sail for peace, 2016
Refugees hold picnic in park, 2016
Kiwis protest cleric's execution, 2016
'Don't worry about ISIS,' 2015
Kiwi girls may be jihadi brides, 2015
Attacks on Muslims 'unacceptable', 2015
Stay in touch, police tell Muslims, 2015
Feilding Islamic Center opens, 2015
Feilding Islamic Center planned, 2015
Islam Open Day, Palmerston North, 2015
Islam Open Day, Auckland, 2015
Vigil for Syrian refugees, 2015
Woman abused for 'ISIS' burqa, 2015
French vet to help islanders, 2015
Vigil for Rohingya people, 2015
Prayers mark the start of Ramadan, 2015
Islamic mega-center gets green light, 2015
1st Century of Muslim Settlement, to 2015
Taihape Mosque opens, 2014
Masjid An-Nur open day, 2014
'Islam: A Beautiful Life,' 2014
Frankton mosque plans unveiled, 2012
Kiwis' role in Afghanistan exposed, 2012
NZ 'must stay course' in Afghanistan, 2012
Sonny Bill Williams embraces Islam, 2011
Evans' top cartoon: Bikini Vs Hijab, 2011
US spies on Kiwi Muslims, 2010
Muslims abandon Chch mosque, 2007
Mosque woes analyzed, 2006
Christchurch Mosque woes, 2006
Christchurch Mosque woes, Part 2, 2006
Muslim head girl at Catholic school, 2006
Think twice about war, says MP, 2003
Albanian and Bosnian women, 2000
Serb myth about Albanians, 1999
Bosnia's 'man of peace' in Auckland, 1995
Bosnia's 'man of peace' (text only), 1995
It's not Islam, says ambassador, 1992
'Woman as animal,' by Matthew Parris, 1992
NZ Christians target Egypt, 1992
Reply to editorial below, 1992
'Democracy is slowly coming,' 1992
Jim Stier defends missions, 1991
Doulos missionaries killed, 1991
Collapse of Islam predicted, 1990
Rushdie: 'Fanatical censorship' hit, 1989
Shaik Abdullah Dougan's grave, 1988
Sword of Islam TV documentary, 1987
Defamation action against Listener, 1987
Sword reaction: Barratt & Shameem, 1987
Sword reaction: Lee & Caaros, 1987
Sword reaction: Ahmad Attari, 1987
Sword reaction: Jeffrey Sluka, 1987
Sword reaction: Chris van der Krogt, 1987
Sword reaction: Alan Ireland, 1987
Sword reaction: Saiyed Dean, 1987
Sword reaction: William Shepard, 1987
Sword reaction: W O Little, 1987
Sword reaction: Manawatu Muslims, 1987
Sword of Islam, Part 1, 1987
Sword of Islam, Part 2, 1987
Ireland letter on Dixon, 1986
Dixon Letter on Choudhary, 1986
FIANZ reaction to Laffin's tour, 1986
Laffin: 'Islam mired in past', 1986
Laffin meeting bars Abdur Razzaq, 1986
Laffin warns NZ about Islam, 1986
Laffin's letter on Choudhary, 1986
Ashraf Choudhary on Islam, 1986
Laffin's 'The Arab Mind' condemned, 1986
Minarets in Ponsonby, Listener, 1979
Mazhar Krasniqi & Abdul Rasheed, 1979
Laffin's racism in 'The Arab Mind', 1978
Muslims to pay more for burial, 1976
Front of 'The Arab Mind', Cassell, 1975
Obit: Mohammed Firoz Khan, ~1973
Anjum Rahman aged 6, 1972
NZ Muslims Support Arab Cause, 1967
NZMA established, 1958
Muslims raising funds for mosque, 1956
Sheikh Mohammed Din, 1877-1945
Mohammed Din in Chathams. Early 1940s?
Suicide at Sea, 1939
Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi biography, 1931-
Mohammad Sayed called up, 1917
Mohammed Din in court, 1913
Croatians & Bosnians on gumfields, 1909
'A Disobedient Arab' in court, 1908
Issue of wearing a fez in court, 1907
Muslim Indian 'Bezire' dies, 1902
'Mohamid Allie' in Wanganui, 1895
'Arab of Muscat' in court, 1861
Census shows 4 'Mahometans' in NZ, 1861
Auckland census lists 2 'Mussulman', 1855

TPP: Karl du Fresne's comment, 2016
TPP: Liam Hehir's comment, 2016
Laffin's entry in Writers Directory, 1986
Royal Historical Society Fellows, 1986
'Know the Middle East' review, 1986
Palestine: The Reality, 1939

Canny Click
Wiggle Space
Pukeko Press
Wennington School
Islamic products online

All these engravings are from The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, T. Nelson and Sons, 1881, by W.M. Thomson. This is the society that the Zionists destroy-
ed, and which they now want us to forget.

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But of course, you'd have to be a "conspiracy theorist" to harbor any doubts about the offi-
cial narratives that are fed to us by the lazy corporate media. Time to wake up, people.