'Hello brother': Words that countered a gunman's hate

A note with a "Hello Brother" message left in a tree outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch Thursday. [AFP]

"Hello brother." The warm-hearted words an elderly Muslim reportedly used to greet a white supremacist gunman have become Christchurch's answer to his volley of hate.

Mohemmed Daoud Nabi, a 71-year-old from war-torn Afghanistan, was buried on Thursday. But his supposed final words echo across this broken New Zealand city.