The executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association is calling for more Christian churches to be burned to the ground..Harsha Walia made the comment in a Canada Day tweet in response to news reports of two more Catholic churches being burning down..“Burn it all down,” Walia tweeted..According to its website, the BCCLA fights in the courts for “equality rights in relation to mental health, disability, gender, youth, immigration, refugees, race, poverty, LGBTQ2S+ rights, and more. We know looking through an inter-sectional lens is the only way to fight inequality and injustice. We fight overt and systemic discrimination, and seek to promote fairness and equality in Canada.”.Attacking religious buildings is normally classified as a hate crime in Canada..Walia’s call to burn churches caused a firestorm of social media anger.. Screen-Shot-2021-07-04-at-9.33.22-AMWalia tweet .“This lady needs to be removed from BC Civil Liberties. She is an embarrassment to BC and she has no business been (sic) in that role. She is inciting violence and hate. It’s our people that are going to pay the price for her hate speeches. Violence has no place in our society,” tweeted Chris Sankey@chrisjsankey.“I wonder if the @BCRCMP might like a word with Miss Walia,” said Grant Hayter-Menzies@GrantHayter..“Unbelievable. Can she be charged for inciting violence?” asked Darshan Maharaja@TheophanesRex.National Post columnist Jonathan Kaye tweeted: “Gee if only @bccla knew that @HarshaWalia was a whack job and mob-violence apologist, maybe they wouldn’t have hired her…. oh wait, they *did* know, because she was very public about it as early as 2010.”.Walia, with a background as a community organizer, was appointed to her role in January, 2020..The Western Standard has reached out to the BCCLA for comment, but hasn’t heard back..A spree of arson and other acts of destruction have been occurring against Christian churches, focused mostly on indigenous Catholic congregations. The acts range from petty vandalism to lighting fires in or around the churches, destroying many..As of publication, there have been at least 23 attacks against churches – including at least five completely destroyed by fires, at least three damaged by fires, and more than 15 vandalized to varying degrees..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
