The Green Party election candidate in Simcoe North has resigned following complaints that a 2007 Facebook post was anti-Muslim.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims called for the move over the post showing Erik Schomann in a group at a pig roast with a caption saying left-overs had been sent to Denmark to support protesters of the Muhammed comic.

That was a reference to the controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed published by a Danish newspaper in 2005.

Islam forbids depictions of Muhammed and Muslims do not eat pork.

The Green party says in a statement that it has accepted Schomann’s resignation and has zero tolerance for Islamophobia or hate speech of any kind.