Before going to bed Thursday, Imam Kashif Ahmed knew he’d have to adjust his sermon at Friday’s Jummah prayer service at the Islamic Center of Irving. News reports from Christchurch, New Zealand, were still developing, which made for “a difficult night,” Ahmed said.
By morning, the accounts from New Zealand were harrowing. Armed with multiple firearms, homemade bombs and a white nationalist agenda, a gunman had killed 49 people and injured dozens gathered for prayers at two mosques.
