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To bear witness to the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity as a national outpouring of grief and a memorialising of those who have passed away is a very touching and deeply emotional process. We were in Beijing when we learned of the mass slaughter of Muslim people at their most important day of gathering for Friday prayers– 50 killed and 48 injured including a 4-year-old girl still in critical condition1– at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in the early after noon on March 15, 2019. We wish to offer our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the familes and friends of those killed and injured and to the Muslim community in this outrageous terrorist attack on the main Masjid Al Noor (the light) and the smaller Linwood mosques. The positive, non-partisan and supportive leadership of all our politicians and especially of our young 38-year-old Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern has been noted worldwide. She immediately called out the atrocity as terrorism, and said in media conferences about the Muslim victims…