The prize to travel to New Zealand and visit the mosques in Christchurch where 50 people were killed has been condemned as a “disturbing act of voyeurism.”
A Muslim group has apologized for offering a competition winner a free trip to New Zealand to meet the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks.
But after just 10 hours, the competition was withdrawn following a barrage of complaints, although screen grabs of the offer continued to be widely circulated. Joseph Willits from the Council for Arab-British Understanding, also criticized the competition on Twitter, labeling it a"really disturbing act of voyeurism," and"incredibly crass and insensitive."
MOTW posted an apology on its Instagram account to its 300,000 followers saying that it wanted to visit New Zealand “in hopes of being agents of healing and community.”
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