The Islamic Womens' Council believes the Royal Commission report into the Christchurch terrorist attack does nothing to deliver justice for the lives affected.
The council's spokesperson, Anjum Rahman, told Checkpoint the Commission has let the community down.
"What we found really surprising is that the report does specify that there were significant failures with systems, there were failures with resourcing, there was a failure of leadership, particularly when it came to conversation around national security," she said.
"They put in a recommendation to redesign the national security system because it had flaws.
"And we find it difficult to understand how they can leave it at that, and not go to the next step. Because systems are ultimately designed and upheld by people, but they aren't just some magical thing that happen. People make deliberate decisions to design and uphold the systems that we have.
"And they have not in any way specified or gone into any detail about any responsibilities around this.
"I think they could look at general ministerial responsibility, particularly when that minute came out around the sealing the evidence and submission of [chief executives] and ministers that was really difficult for us, because none of that evidence has been challenged, or been seen by the community.
"Their process was such that they did not agree to give anyone in the community security clearance to be able to sit in on some of those hearings, nor any ability to test or challenge any of the evidence that was put forth by those agencies."
The Royal Commission said in the report that despite the shortcomings and failings leading up to March 15, it did not think the attacker would have been stopped, except by chance.
"It seems to me, and they can only clarify, that that ruling is based on the current system, the current level of resources that those public servants were working under," Rahman said.
The report indicated the government was focusing on terror threats from possible Islamist extremists. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said there was "an inappropriate concentration of resources".
"We were an easier community to monitor, because we were smaller," Rahman said.
"If they had been basing it on overseas events, then there were also overseas events - significant events - that should have alerted them to a rising white supremacist alt-right threat, such as the Quebec mass shooting, such as the killing of an MP in the UK, the Chapel Hill killings and various other events.
"I am a bit weary of that word unconscious when it comes to bias. It may well have been conscious or unconscious but I do believe that there is bias.
"The report also talks and the social cohesion section about the lack of diversity within agencies.
"They talk about the lack of diversity within leadership positions, they talk about the poor community engagement and the lack of value of expertise that communities bring.
"So all of those factors would suggest that there was significant bias.
"We have always held that there should be compensation, that there should be reparation for what they have lost. New Zealand was not prepared for this attack. We didn't have the capacity, the capability, to deal with a community like ours, or to deal with the scale of the attack.
"I think that again goes to that systemic lack of planning and preparedness, certainly victims' families and those that will present on the day, all of those people are first and foremost in our thoughts.
"Justice and compensation is really all about them, so they can at least be feeling secure and have support for the wellbeing."
