Earlier this week, the government of New Zealand released a comprehensive report on the 2019 Christchurch massacre , describing in chilling detail how a single white supremacist carried out the worst terror attack in the countrys modern history.

Although the nearly 800-page report, conducted by the Royal Commission, documents several major shortcomings by the countrys security agencies, it concludes that there were no signs that the attack was imminent and there was little that the state could have done to thwart the March 2019 killing of 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday apologized for major government failings described in the report, including that agencies had neglected to look into white supremacists, focusing their resources almost exclusively on the perceived threat of extremist Islamist terrorism. She also apologized that police had failed to enforce proper checks on firearm licenses as the shooter was acquiring his arsenal.

The commission made no findings that these issues would have stopped the attack. But these were both failings, and for that, I apologize, Ardern said after the report was released.

The report, however, is much more than a dry recitation of government missteps. Its one of the more thorough and terrifying investigations into how anti-Muslim terror has become a fixture of news headlines over the last decade.

The report ultimately amounts to a searing indictment of institutional Islamophobia in New Zealands national security apparatus and in big tech companies like YouTube that helped transform a place of worship into the setting for a livestreamed pogrom.

Its also a story of Muslim voices being ignored before 51 Muslim voices were silenced forever.