A man whose wife killed in the Christchurch attack as she rushed bank in to a mosque to rescue him said he harbours no hatred…
A man whose wife killed in the Christchurch attack as she rushed bank in to a mosque to rescue him said he harbours no hatred toward the gunman, insisting forgiveness is the best path forward.
“I would say to him ‘I love him as a person’,” Farid Ahmad told AFP. “I could not accept what he did. What he did was a wrong thing.”
Asked if he forgave the 28-year-old white supremacist suspect, he said: “Of course. The best thing is forgiveness, generosity, loving and caring, positivity.”
Husna Ahmed, 44, was among 50 people, and at least four women killed in the attack on two mosques where worshippers had gone for Friday prayers.
When the shooting started, she helped several people escape from the women’s and children’s hall.
“She was screaming ‘come this way, hurry up’, and she took many children and ladies towards a safe garden,” Ahmad said.
