{"id":47973,"date":"2018-09-10T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=47973"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:14:56","slug":"cindy-ross-apologizes-for-remarks-about-fort-mcmurray-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/cindy-ross-apologizes-for-remarks-about-fort-mcmurray-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Ross apologizes for remarks about Fort McMurray Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47974\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cindy-Ross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>A Calgary United Conservative Party nomination candidate has apologized for three-year-old social media comments in which she compared Muslims in Fort McMurray to bank robbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cindy Ross, who is seeking the UCP nomination in Calgary-Fish Creek, apologized for now-deleted Facebook posts she made in November 2015 about the construction of an Islamic centre in Fort McMurray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ross also said she had no recollection of writing the controversial post where she said she hated the idea of building an Islamic centre in Fort McMurray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;What a better place to have a mosque. Right in the middle of our greatest asset,&#8221; Ross said in 2015. &#8220;This is a bit of like jailing the bank robber in the bank vault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ross&#8217;s retraction came on the eve of voting day and hours after the NDP issued a news release Thursday which described her comments as &#8220;racist views&#8221; on an &#8220;extremist Facebook page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ross&#8217;s post and account have been deleted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I apologize for any offence my old posts have caused,&#8221; Ross said in a Facebook post on her official candidate page Thursday afternoon. &#8220;They certainly do not represent my views today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/cindy-ross-apologizes-for-remarks-about-fort-mcmurray-muslims\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary United Conservative Party nomination candidate has apologized for three-year-old social media comments in which she compared Muslims in Fort McMurray to bank robbers. 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