Richard Prosser - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:53:16 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Richard Prosser - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Anti-Muslim rant MP builds bridges https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/10/11/anti-muslim-rant-mp-builds-bridges/ Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:07:30 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=50703 Eight months after his notorious "Wogistan" anti-Muslim rant NZ First MP Richard Prosser says he received more messages of support than of criticism during the resulting furore - something he now has mixed feelings about. Continue reading

Anti-Muslim rant MP builds bridges... Read more]]> Eight months after his notorious "Wogistan" anti-Muslim rant NZ First MP Richard Prosser says he received more messages of support than of criticism during the resulting furore - something he now has mixed feelings about. Continue reading

Anti-Muslim rant MP builds bridges]]> 50703 Should Richard Prosser be banned from flying? https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/02/15/islamic-associations-lay-formal-complaint-against-prosser/ Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:29:47 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=39256

A blogger has, perhaps light heartedly, called for New Zealand's airlines to ban "Richard Prosser and his fellow Islamophobes from aircraft!" "How would he and they feel if that happened? Not too happy I would imagine!" says Chris Ford. On Wednesday Prosser apologised for comments made in a magazine column that young Muslim men should be Read more

Should Richard Prosser be banned from flying?... Read more]]> A blogger has, perhaps light heartedly, called for New Zealand's airlines to ban "Richard Prosser and his fellow Islamophobes from aircraft!"

"How would he and they feel if that happened? Not too happy I would imagine!" says Chris Ford.

On Wednesday Prosser apologised for comments made in a magazine column that young Muslim men should be banned from flying on western airlines.

"If the greatest identifiable threat to modern aviation security is posed by young Muslim males, then surely the answer is to prohibit young Muslim males from flying on our aeroplanes."

Prosser also claimed New Zealand's rights were being denigrated by "misogynist troglodytes from Wogistan."

When asked on National Radio's Nine to Noon programme what provoked the article he said: ‘‘I had my pocket knife confiscated. This is the pocket knife that I've owned for - I couldn't count the number of years - and I used to travel with internationally prior to 9/11 before the world went mad.''

He said he had also carried it up and down the country 30-odd times last year.

The New Zealand Federation of Islamic Associations is laying a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commission over Prosser's comments.

Federation of Muslim Association President Anwar Ghani hopes the complaint will see Mr Prosser step down from his position.

He says a person of his intellect doesn't deserve to be in Parliament.

Prosser says he won't resign from Parliament for his anti-Muslim "brain explosion" in spite of the growing consensus that he is not fit to be an MP.

Meanwhile, Prosser's "trusty" swiss pocket knife, which inspired the 1700-word column, remains in a safe at Christchurch Airport.

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Should Richard Prosser be banned from flying?]]> 39256 Winston won't say if he backs burqa-ban MP http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10771825&ref=rss Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:30:14 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=18027 New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has refused to say whether he backs one of his new MP's calls for a burqa-ban and the arming of taxi drivers. Richard Prosser, who is ranked number four on the New Zealand First list, has been publishing his thinking for nearly 10 years in his Eyes Right column in Ian Read more

Winston won't say if he backs burqa-ban MP... Read more]]> New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has refused to say whether he backs one of his new MP's calls for a burqa-ban and the arming of taxi drivers.

Richard Prosser, who is ranked number four on the New Zealand First list, has been publishing his thinking for nearly 10 years in his Eyes Right column in Ian Wishart's Investigate magazine.

He has railed against the burqa, calling for the traditional Islamic women's head-to-toe dress to be banned.

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