Christchurch permanently altered Friday worship into a moment of mortal fear for Muslims worldwide

Evidence

It was Friday, the holiest of days that would never be the same. Mothers kissed their sons like they might never embrace them again before parting ways. Friends hugged each other tighter. Couples, old and new, held one another longer before bidding a farewell that was supposed to be temporary but that could, in a world where unhinged Islamophobia had mutated into murderous terrorism, be their last. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 893

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, human image — Friday prayers recast as a possible last goodbye — that lands without heavy context.
• ADDENDUM: Could pair with the sacrifice article: the ritual trepidation of weekly worship as a low-grade martyrdom-consciousness pervading ordinary religious life.
• XREF: connects to: Friday prayers converted mosque congregations into revolutionary demonstrators — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 221