Political weapon

Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan is using the Facebook livestream of the New Zealand mosque shootings at his campaign rallies to warn against rising Islamophobia.

Erdogan (below right) on Monday said he would send home “in caskets” anyone who tried to commit such an attack in his country.

“This isn’t an individual act, this is organized,” Erdogan claimed.

He showed the clips on giant screens to thousands of people at his rallies, which were aired live on Turkish TV. The images were blurry but contained the sound of gunfire.

Erdogan also displayed parts of white supremacist gunman Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto in which he threatened Turks and vowed to make Istanbul “Christian once more.”

New Zealand officials rebuked Erdogan for showing the clips and his rhetoric.

The controversy came as it was revealed that Tarrant (near inset) initially couldn’t find the main door to one of the mosques he targeted Friday — and that confusion likely helped save dozens of lives.

“By the time [Tarrant] was in the right place, we hide ourselves,” Mohammed Akheel Uddin, a worshipper at Christchurch’s Linwood Mosque, where mourners gathered Monday (above), told the New Zealand Web site Stuff.com,

Another worshipper eventually chased Tarrant away, although not before seven people were killed there.

Minutes earlier, 43 people had been slaughtered at the area’s Masjid Al Noor mosque.

Uddin’s story came as the husband of a woman killed at Al Noor said he has forgiven the gunman.

“I do not support what he did . . . But maybe he was hurt, maybe something happened to him in his life,’’ Farid Ahmed told the New Zealand Herald. “The bottom line is, he is a brother of mine.”

Meanwhile, some New Zealand gun owners voluntarily turned in their weapons to authorities, while others flocked to buy semiautomatic rifles — as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed she’ll have the country’scou gun laws tightened within 10 days.