Green Party candidate resigns over anti-Muslim comments
Posted September 12, 2019 3:43 pm.
Last Updated September 12, 2019 3:53 pm.
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The Green Party election candidate in Simcoe North has resigned following complaints that a 2007 Facebook post was anti-Muslim.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims called for the move over the post showing Erik Schomann in a group at a pig roast with a caption saying left-overs had been sent to Denmark to support protesters of the Muhammed comic.
That was a reference to the controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed published by a Danish newspaper in 2005.
Islam forbids depictions of Muhammed and Muslims do not eat pork.
The Green party says in a statement that it has accepted Schomann’s resignation and has zero tolerance for Islamophobia or hate speech of any kind.
