Maybe there's more to Ala Buzreba's remarks on twitter then meets the eye. According to her sister it sounds like Ala was provoked, not to excuse her comments but I can understand why she would say those awful things. From Zehra Tajouri's facebook page:
"Because I got like 30 messages about this -
My sister Ala recently stepped down as Nose Hill Candidate for the Liberal party of Canada after some old tweets of hers resurfaced. Despite hundreds of people messaging her and reminding her that things she said at 16 are not a reflection of who she is - she, being far more gracious than I, stepped down for a bigger cause.
Let me tell you all - the tweets being reported on the news are true. When Ala was 16/17, she tweeted some pretty nasty things that she has repeatedly apologized for. But this isn't about her apology, this is about how not a single news agency - from CBC to the Huffington Post to the Sun - not a single one, explained why Ala was saying those things. It's not like she woke up one day randomly tweeting at people to go #### themselves.
Ala was repeatedly bullied by a group of conservative bloggers at the time. These were grown ass men and women well over the age of 35 year old picking on a 16 year old kid - telling her that she is invalid, a terrorist, corrupt, worth nothing, a raghead slut who doesn’t deserve life and has no place in Canadian society - that she should “go back to where she came from.” These grown ass adults with kids of their own were picking on a highschool student and when that student replied to them in the same anger, they screenshot her response and victimized themselves as if they were innocent.
I respect my sister’s choice to step down and I’ll stand behind whatever she chooses to do in the future, but I’m not gonna sit here and twiddle my thumbs acting like these bloggers are innocent unsung heroes. If we're going to call out students for things they said in the past, can we at least call out every adult who was bullying her as well? Adults who have had to make no apologies and instead are being lauded for pushing a kid far enough to say that."
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