Her quip about the firefighters was not a direct threat of violence against the church, although her remarks can certainly be seen as tolerating and even approving of such violence if it occurred. She was saying that Allah might strike the church in Quebec, after saying that he struck the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris because of France’s ban on the burqa and niqab. However, Eve Torres likely knows that the Qur’an says that Allah will punish the unbelievers “by the hands” of the Muslims (9:14), and so there is an implicit invitation to Muslims to attack the Quebec church. Welcome to multicultural Canada.
“Notre-Dame Fire: Manon Massé distances herself from Eve Torres,” translated from “Incendie de Notre-Dame: Manon Massé se distancie d’Eve Torres,” by Jocelyne Richer, Canadian Press, April 16, 2019:
Quebec: The controversial comments of a former Solidaire candidate on the fire that ravaged the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris put Quebec Solidaire in trouble on Tuesday.
The co-spokesperson of Quebec Solidaire (QS), Manon Massé, took care to distance herself from the party’s candidate in Mont-Royal-Outremont in the last election, Eve Torres, who is of Muslim faith.
Ms. Massé asked the latter to retract, believing that her remarks would only exacerbate the debate around Bill 21 on religious symbols.
In a confused message posted and removed from her Facebook page, Ms. Torres, who has already been among the political analysts invited to the show La Joute on the TVA network, suggested that the fire in Paris Monday was the result of a divine intervention related to the prohibition of religious symbols in France.
According to Ms. Torres, banning religious signs can stir up the wrath of “the imaginary friend.” And then “here is the result!,” she wrote.
“If I were (Quebec Premier François) Legault, I would have firefighters sleep in the church on Notre-Dame Street” in Montreal, she continued.
“I was very troubled” by the words of Ms. Torres, said Ms. Massé on the air, adding that if it was a joke she was “very bad taste.”
This type of intervention only contributes to “ruining the debate”, according to Ms. Massé.
A former QS candidate, Ms. Torres was also a member of the Québec Solidaire coordinating committee until recently.
Ms. Torres finally apologized, saying that her message was a joke.
Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, who is piloting Bill 21, also denounced Ms. Torres.