Canada NDP Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is An Anti-Religious Bigot!

"Charter of Rights? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Charter of Rights, Eh?!"

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By Culture Guard

Oct. 4, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Culture Guard demands NDP turf Peter Julian for lying and anti-Christian bigotry

Oct. 4, 2019 (CultureGuard) — Culture Guard executive director Kari Simpson has written to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, demanding that he discipline the NDP’s New Westminster-Burnaby candidate, Peter Julian, for religious bigotry, for sabotaging the right of the faith communities to participate in the democratic process, and for making false accusations against the pastor of a New Westminster church.

“NDP candidate Peter Julian has ignited a war against civil Canadians and has exposed the contempt, bigotry and hatred some members of the NDP party has for the faith community. It’s time to clean house and end the hypocrisy” says Simpson.

NDP candidate Peter Julian went to social media the night before an “all candidates” meeting that was being held at the Justice Institute of BC, hosted by six New Westminster churches. Julian hysterically and falsely claimed on his Facebook page that a respected pastor, Paul Dirks, was organizing a “platform for hate.”

His lies and defamatory comments didn’t stop there. Julian, determined to sabotage the event, used his Facebook page to incite others to vilify and malign Dirks; he tagged the other participating candidates in his post and solicited them to “stand up against hate” and to refuse the invitation.

All candidates except for the Libertarian Party's Neeraj Murarka and People's Party of Canada's Hansen Ginn, took the bait and cowardly acquiesced to Julian's bullying. Going above and beyond, Neeraj and Hansen went to the JIBC that evening to meet with any constituents who hadn't received notification of the cancellation. 

Peter Julian didn’t stop there. In an interview with the New Westminster Record he admits to contacting the Justice Institute of BC, and he also incited others to do the same. Hours before the scheduled event, the Justice Institute breached their contract and cancelled the booking.

Simpson said she wonders if Peter Julian has ever heard Paul Dirks speak. She has, and says she has never heard any words that could justify the assertions made by Julian. “Julian is a liar, a bully and a religious bigot.,” Simpson says. “He apparently feels he has the right to violate the BC Human Rights code. But regrettably for him, ‘feelings’ don’t trump the law. Peter Julian is going to be challenged to justify his statements.”

 Peter Julian also stated, falsely, that Pastor Dirks was the ‘organizer’ of the all-candidates meeting planned at the Justice Institute of BC. Pastor Dirks was one of several people organizing the event from the six sponsoring New West Churches.

 “Peter Julian is apparently an advocate of the ‘cancel culture’ that is undermining democracy all over North America today,” Simpson said. “He and other ‘cancel culture’ bullies, instead of welcoming open and respectful discussion on important issues, resort to ‘de-platforming’ anyone they disagree with. Why? Because they have no intelligent answers to bring to the debate. So, cowardly, they lobby to have public venues like the BC Justice Institute dishonour contracts, to cancel meetings, just because they’re unable to defend their bigoted views.

“The NDP, if it allows Peter Julian to continue to stand as its representative in New Westminster-Burnaby, is brushing aside Canada’s legal protections for protected groups and our civil society, and declaring that it favours fascist bullying tactics, lies, deception and religious bigotry rather than free speech,” challenges Simpson, in her letter to Singh.

“Mr. Singh, do you condone the silencing of opponents by shutting down meetings? Do you support Peter Julian’s tactics of lies and defamation of a respected pastor to sabotage a public event? Do you approve of Peter Julian’s incitement of hatred and contempt for the faith communities—or is it just limited to the Christian community? Sir, you have a serious problem on your hands. You owe Pastor Paul Dirks, the other churches involved in this event and all Canadians an apology; are you going to apologize and discipline this rogue bigot?”  

Culture Guard is asking concerned citizens to contact NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and demand that he force Peter Julian to resign as NDP candidate in New Westminster-Burnaby. Contact data for Jagmeet Singh are:

300 — 279 Laurier West

Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J9

Phone: 613-236-3613 or 604 434-1015

Toll Free: 1-866-525-2555

Fax: 613-230-9950

Email: jagmeet.singh@ndp.ca.