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Passenger carries rifle on plane (Slice of Life DownUnder NZ)
NZPA ^ | Sunday, 18 March 2007 | Staff Reporter
Posted on 03/19/2007 12:53:21 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
Passenger carries rifle on plane
NZPA
Sunday, 18 March 2007
Security measures on provincial airline routes are under the spotlight again after a passenger managed to carry a rifle on board a flight from New Plymouth and Auckland.
The man was only pulled aside after he landed in Auckland and was boarding another flight to Kerikeri.
He told authorities he had been allowed to carry the rifle on the earlier flight because the gun was broken.
Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Bill Sommer told the Herald on Sunday New Plymouth airline officers had ignored protocol and all guns were required to go in the cargo hold.
There are no formal screening procedures for flights in provincial New Zealand.
The latest scare comes after a Sikh priest was asked to hand over his religious dagger by a pilot after he boarded a plane from Auckland to Napier in January.
Jarnail Singh said the issue only served to highlight the racism his community faced in the post-September 11 world.
Jarnail Singh and a group of Sikh priests visiting from India got through security wearing their kirpans under their shirts at Auckland's domestic terminal without any problems and boarded their flight to Napier.
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There is essentially no pre-flite security in provincial airports in NZ.
1 posted on 03/19/2007 12:53:22 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2007/s07030120.htm
Sunday, March 18, 2007
"Conferences to look at ‘threat‘ of Islam in NZ
By Lynley Smith of Challenge Weekly, New Zealand"
Special to ASSIST News Service
AUCKLAND, NZ (ANS) --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mr Dillner said many Muslims came to New Zealand to find a better life, but many others came with a “missionary zeal” to take over the country. Muslims may in future, for example, promote the idea of instituting the call to Islamic prayer in their neighbourhoods.
In many freezing works halal killing had become standard and a group of South Island farmers was considering starting up their own freezing works to avoid that religious practice.
“They are saying, ‘Why should New Zealanders bow to Islam?’ Islam has an agenda which is subtle and behind the scenes.”
The two-day conferences have a three-fold purpose; to educate Christians about Islam, to inform them of what is happening in the world in relation to Islam; and to equip the Church to reach out rather than put up walls against Muslims.
The conference will have a number of experienced speakers who have held Mosques and Miracles conferences twice in Australia and in South Africa last year.
Stuart Robinson
Dr Stuart Robinson, senior pastor of Crossway Church in Melbourne, worked for 14 years in South-east Asia with his wife, Margaret, and knows Islam intimately. His book Mosques and Miracles was the inspiration behind the tours.
Daniel Shayesteh
Dr Daniel Shayesteh is an Iranian who was involved in training the Hezbollah terrorist groups which operate in Lebanon, and supported the overthrow of the Iranian Government by Ayatollah Khomeini. Unfortunately he was aligned with the wrong political faction and found himself in prison awaiting execution. After a friend engineered his escape to Turkey he became a Christian.
“He knows the radical side of Islam,” said Mr Dillner. “He knows he is on a hit list. When he walks out the door to work each morning, he knows he may not return.”"
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"Visting Muslim clerics 'preached hate'"
Stuff.Co.Nz ^ | 2/13/07 | COLIN ESPINER and IAN STEWARD - The Press
Posted on 02/12/2007 9:47:55 PM PST by Pikamax