Muslim group calls on Conservative candidate to step down over social media posts

August 4, 2019   

(Global News) The National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling on a Toronto-area Conservative candidate to step aside following reports about her past social media posts.

Nadia Hasan, acting executive director of the council, said Saturday that Ghada Melek’s alleged comments on Islam and the LGBTQ2 community show she “wouldn’t know how to serve” all citizens in the very diverse riding of Mississauga-Streetsville.

Melek is running against incumbent Liberal MP Gagan Sikand.

According to the National Post, Melek appeared to have retweeted a post that blamed Detroit’s “economic hell” on Islamist extremism in 2013. In a Vice article, Melek was accused of backing an expert who supported LGBTQ2 conversion therapy.

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