An Australian comedian’s joke about the Christchurch mosque shootings has sparked a fierce debate online.
In his recently-released comedy special Anti-Hero, comedian Isaac Butterfield references the 2019 terror attack during which Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people and injured 49.
“This Australian extremist stormed this building, this mosque, this room where people were saying their prayers and going about their business,” he says in the special which is available to stream online.
“For me, the saddest thing about that, it wasn’t the 52 people who were killed, it wasn’t the countless others who had their lives changed forever because their family members were taken from them, it was the hundreds of people that night who…