NZ calls for solidarity at Muslim summit in Istanbul

New Zealand's deputy prime minister said the gunman accused of killing 50 people in two mosques in the South Pacific nation would spend the rest of his life in isolation in prison and called for solidarity to eradicate "hate-filled ideologies."
Winston Peters was speaking at an emergency session of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation's executive committee in Istanbul where he denounced last Friday's attacks as "an attack on all of us" in his country of "religious tolerance."
The comment appeared to be in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who during a speech earlier this week said: "If New Zealand fails to hold the attacker accountable, one way or another we will hold him to account."

"Politicians who pave themselves the road to power by alienating Muslims and creating enemies out of refugees, must pull themselves together."