By Donald DeMarco, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 6, 2021
Donald DeMarco is professor emeritus of Saint Jerome’s University and an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He is a regular columnist for the Saint Austin Review and the author, most recently, of Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Search for Understanding.
Harsha Walia, a month after she called for Catholic churches to be burned “down,” resigned from her post as executive director of a Canadian civil rights group after a public outcry. She sparked an online fury in calling for violence against Catholic churches stating “Burn it all down.” Nonetheless, her approval of violence was not without support from the legal profession.
Rebel News founder Ezra Levant, in a FOX News interview hosted by Tucker Carlson, stated that the multitude of arson attacks on churches in Canada is Canada’s “Black Lives Matter” movement and called out the nation’s top leaders for their near silence regarding the burnings. Carlson has said that “all of a sudden Canada looks a lot like the Soviet Union.” …