(iPolitics) A federal candidate for the Bloc Québécois (BQ) has been writing messages with “Islamophobic” undertones on Twitter and Facebook for years.
Ensaf Haidar, 42, became the BQ’s nominee for southern Quebec’s Sherbrooke riding last month. Her husband Raif Badawi was arrested by Saudi Arabia authorities in 2012 for “insulting Islam” via his writings and was eventually sentenced to a decade in prison and a thousand lashes, 50 of which he received outside of a mosque in Jeddah in 2015.
Haidar has risen to prominence as an advocate for her husband and free expression after seeking asylum with her three children in Canada. But her social media also contains a trail of posts centred on [an] Islamophobic conspiracy theory made during her rise as a human rights symbol.
