Alex Kulbashian

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Alexan (Alex) Kulbashian (December 7, 1981 in Lebanon), also known as Alex Krause of Toronto is a former leader and spokesperson for the racist Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team (CECT)[1][2] which was based in Ontario, Canada. Kulbashian and James Scott Richardson have been found by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to have been involved in the running and/or hosting of two websites targeting Jews, Muslims, ethnic minorities and immigrants.[3]

The content of the two now defunct websites that Kulbashian and Richardson were involved with brought the two men to the attention of Richard Warman who filed a federal human rights complaint. The complaint sought $80,000 in punitive fines and damages and was brought before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in early 2004. One commission investigator asserted that the material which was posted on the websites allegedly operated by Kulbashian and Richardson posed a threat to ethnic groups:

"The material posted and maintained on these websites would likely expose individuals who are not Christian, non-Caucasian, and individuals of other religions, other races and other national ethnic origins to hatred and/or contempt."^[1]

Alex Kulbashian currently has no criminal record or pending charges. The charges laid by the London Police probe were withdrawn after two years without any apparent explanation.[4]

On March 10, 2006, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal fined Kulbashian $1,000 for communicating hate messages and also ordered him to pay Richard Warman $5,000 in damages for having personally named Warman as a Jewish lawyer in the context of mocking reference to the Holocaust, gas chambers, the Auschwitz death camp, and posting Warman's home address at the time to the Internet as part of a Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team newsletter (paragraphs 136-139 of the CHRT ruling below). The decision was described as a "landmark ruling" on hate and the internet by Canadian Press.[5] Kulbashian's Internet service provider, Affordable Space, was fined a further $3000.00. The Tribunal also issued permanent orders barring Kulbashian and Richardson from posting further hate messages to the Internet (paragraph 135 of the decision).

Dr. Frances Henry of York university Anthropology department was admitted as an expert witness in the case in the fields of racism and hate propaganda, however her testimony was disqualified after she admitted to having no expertise in those relevant fields.

Alexan Kulbashian has filed an Appeal in Federal Court on the grounds of error in judgement as well as challenging the constitutionality of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act[6].