There should have been no question. As soon as he was discovered to have been a jihadi, he should have been out of New Zealand. But that would have required sanity and patriotism among New Zealand’s public officials.
More on this story. “Auckland supermarket attacker searched for ‘enemies of Allah,’” The Australian, September 6, 2021:
…Samsudeen arrived in New Zealand from Sri Lanka as a 22-year-old in 2011 on a student visa and was granted refugee status two years later.
In 2016, he came to the attention of the police and intelligence agencies after expressing sympathy on Facebook for terrorist attacks.
During their investigations it became evident the refugee status was fraudulently obtained and the process began to cancel his right to stay in New Zealand.
The following year he was arrested at Auckland Airport, when it was suspected he was on his way to Syria and a police search of his home had revealed a large hunting knife and “material related to ISIS propaganda”, court documents said.
Ms Ardern said deportation notices were served in April 2019.
Samsudeen, who described himself as a Tamil Muslim, appealed the deportation and told a court he faced “arrest, detention, mistreatment and torture” if sent back to Sri Lanka.
The country’s immigration agency looked into ways of detaining Samsudeen during the appeal process through the Immigration Act. Samsudeen at that stage had been held in custody for three years and authorities had exhausted all avenues to keep him detained and he was placed under 24-hour surveillance by security services.
Attempts to have him charged under New Zealand’s Terrorism Suppression Act were unsuccessful.
Ms Ardern said changes to the country’s counter-terrorism legislation were expected to be approved by parliament before the end of the month.
Michael Copeland says
Ardern knew all that, or should have known, and she STILL exonerated Islam.
This is culpable misinformation of the public.
gravenimage says
New Zealand failed to deport Muslim migrant stabber even after he was found with hunting knife and ISIS propaganda
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Insanely the New Zealand courts ruled that NZ could not legally indict or deport someone for plotting violent Jihad.
Only good thing is it looks as though this is changing now:
“New Zealand to criminalize terror attack planning after mall stabbing”
https://www.axios.com/new-zealand-criminalize-attack-planning-mall-stabbing-803b1c4d-35fe-4d77-9eab-4a5a0c6da725.html
Giacomo Latta says
“arrest, detention, mistreatment and torture”
And since democracies leave out the latter two chastisements they must accept all of the world’s lawbreakers. Makes sense to muslims at least.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islamic countries are so horrible that we have to accept all these Muslims who want to violently impose the same horrors on us…