BCMA calls for immediate accountability from BC Conservatives over anti-Muslim rhetoric

B.C. Conservative campaign director will stay on: Doerkson

The election campaign director for the B.C. Conservatives is not going anywhere, the party’s leader says. Katy Merrifield made an anti-Islam social media post in June in which she said the religion was an “abhorrent ideology” that needs to be expelled. It was taken down shortly afterwards. At Wednesday night’s B.C. leaders’ debate, interim party […]

BCMA calls for immediate accountability from BC Conservatives over anti-Muslim rhetoric

THE BC Muslim Association says in a statement that it is deeply concerned by anti-Muslim social media posts attributed to Katy Merrifield, Campaign Director of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. On June 17, Merrifield reportedly posted “f*ck Islam,” described Islam as an “abhorrent ideology,” and urged others to expel it in the name of defending “Western civilization.” Days later, she reportedly reposted a message declaring that “Islam …