Democracy icon Alexey Navalny compared Muslims to cockroaches and recommended their extermination

There’s a ludicrous degree of Navalny overkill in the news today. Apparently now that he’s gone, there is no more hope whatsoever for democracy in Russia. Canadian politicians across the spectrum are outdoing one another to sing his praises, and more importantly, to blame Putin for his death. This is highly ironic, given Navalny’s roots as an ultra-nationalist Russian who has compared Muslims to cockroaches and suggested they be exterminated. Needless to say, that sort of commentary would be instant career suicide for any politician in Canada. And not just politicians. But hey, the man hates Putin, and that washes away a lot of sins in the eyes of our virtuous democracy-loving political class. Here’s another angle; maybe that just proves there’s more freedom of speech in Russia than in Canada!