Malcolm Azania, also known as "Minister Faust," is a Canadian teacher, writer, community activist, radio host and political aspirant. A resident of Edmonton, Alberta, Azania is the candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Edmonton–Strathcona in the 2004 federal election. Azania faces Conservative incumbent MP Rahim Jaffer, Liberal challenger Debby Carlson, and other candidates.
On June 7, 2004, National Post columnist Colby Cosh posted an entry to his weblog referencing one of Azania's posts to Usenet in the 1990s. Titled "JEWS: ENEMIES?FRIENDS?," the post took an essentialist view of race and charged that Jewish people, in "aggregate," were part of white privilege, which Azania styled "Whitesupremacists", in the similar way, as Azania states, males are part of male privilege or "Malesupremacy". While signed by his pen name Minister Faust, the post was written under Azania's name and e-mail address.
Critics charged that the post was anti-Semitic, however many others have agree that it is not anti-Semitic.
While Azania made a strong apology on his website, media continued the story over the next several days. In fact Edmonton's most widely read newspaper, the Edmonton Journal, waited until friday June 11, 2004 when the newspaper sells more copies to run a highly critical editorial and cartoon.
Also as Minister Faust, Azania wrote a comical science fiction book, "The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad."