{"id":118636,"date":"2024-10-11T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T01:33:00","slug":"white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/","title":{"rendered":"White Rock Muslim Association calls on B.C. candidate to withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the White Rock Muslim Association is demanding that B.C. Conservative candidate Brent Chapman withdraw from the Surrey South MLA race.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Thursday afternoon, Asad Syed unequivocally condemned &quot;the multiple racist statements and Islamophobic attitude expressed by Brent Chapman.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our community does not feel safe being represented by someone who would publicly make such hateful statements about Muslims on more than one occasion,&quot; Syed commented.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We demand his resignation and withdrawal from candidacy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Syed was responding to a series of Facebook posts Chapman made in 2015 that were revealed by media Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed embed-jwplayer\" id=\"file-9248653\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"embed-item\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blackpress.tv\/embed\/56004\/White_Rock_Muslim_Association_calls_on_BC_candidate_to_withdraw\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In them, Chapman referred to Palestinians&nbsp;as &quot;little inbred walking talking breathing time bombs &#8230; figuratively and quite literally,&quot; made multiple references to &quot;Muslim inbreeding&quot; and suggested that Canadians &quot;cannot live with them, Islam.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The posts have been widely criticized as racist and Islamophobic, and were slammed by Premier David Eby as &quot;hate speech&quot; in media conferences on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad, while saying his party stands against the anti-Palestinian, Islamophopic&nbsp;views expressed by Chapman, said that&nbsp;he was not asking the Surrey South candidate to withdraw. He said he had asked for and received an apology from the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, Chapman issued a statement to media in which he said: &quot;The language I used and the sentiments I expressed at that time towards Palestinians and members of the Islamic faith were completely unacceptable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They do not reflect who I am today or the respect and admiration I hold for the Palestinian and Muslim communities,&rdquo; he said, adding that he wanted to offer &quot;sincerest apologies to everyone hurt by my past words.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Syed&#39;s statement indicates loudly and clearly that an apology is not enough for the&nbsp;&nbsp;White Rock Muslim Association.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We call on&nbsp;John Rustad to remove Brent Chapman, this apology was not for him to accept and is evidence of a very troubling attitude prevalent within the Conservative party,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Such rhetoric has no place in our society and undermines the values of equality and respect that we stand for. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Syed said that Chapman&#39;s apology &quot;rings hollow, as these statements were made multiple times as an adult in a public arena.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the line of thinking Chapman&#39;s statements represents is &quot;pervasive and deep&quot; and often continues &quot;behind closed doors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Fake sentiments&nbsp;are expressed in response to a slap on the wrist from leading party officials,&quot; he said. &quot;Remaining on the ballot is lip service without action.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Syed said allowing those in power to retain such attitudes and statements &nbsp;&quot;leads to a culture of hate and emboldens individuals to become radicalized and enact atrocities such as the Quebec City Mosque Shooting, one of the deadliest in Canada&rsquo;s history.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim association says Conservative candidate apology &#8216;rings hollow&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":118641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-news","category-regional-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White Rock Muslim Association calls on B.C. candidate to withdraw - The Interior News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White Rock Muslim Association calls on B.C. candidate to withdraw - The Interior News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Muslim association says Conservative candidate apology &#039;rings hollow&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Interior News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-11T01:33:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Staff reports\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Staff reports\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/\",\"name\":\"White Rock Muslim Association calls on B.C. candidate to withdraw - The Interior News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/10\/241010-pan-meetcandidatessurreysouthprint-7571275-chapman_1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-11T01:33:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b2a2559930289000cbfc74c234c9073b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/11\/white-rock-muslim-association-calls-on-bc-candidate-to-withdraw\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/10\/241010-pan-meetcandidatessurreysouthprint-7571275-chapman_1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/10\/241010-pan-meetcandidatessurreysouthprint-7571275-chapman_1.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1334,\"caption\":\"Brent Chapman, the B.C. 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