Christchurch inquiry: Islamic group says it 'asked for help' before attack

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New Zealand's Islamic community has told the Christchurch massacre inquiry that it knew it was vulnerable" to a terror attack, and that security forces had wrongly focused on terrorism committed by Muslim extremists.

We asked for help. We knew we were vulnerable to such an attack. We did not know who, when, what, where or how. But we knew," the Federation of the Islamic Associations of New Zealand said in a submission made public on Monday.