February 12, 2006
When did Canada adopt sharia law, and why wasn't I told about it?
The Western Standard is being threatened with legal action, and possible criminal prosecution, for the crime of publishing these cartoons:
A local Muslim leader has filed a police complaint and will be seeing a lawyer over the running of controversial political cartoons in two Calgary-area publications.
Alaa Elsayed of the Muslim Council of Calgary (MCC) said he will also be asking The Jewish Free Press, which published the cartoons Jan. 9, and the Western Standard, which is expected to feature them in tomorrow's issue, to apologize for the slight.
But Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant said he and his editorial staff have nothing to be sorry for.
"This is the story of the month," Levant said last night. "We think our readers would want to know what all the fuss is about ... It's simply a news call."
Levant added he's worried about any move by the religiously offended to bring the police and the courts into what's simply a freedom of the press issue.
"It troubles me that the leadership of such an important community as the Muslim community is so out of touch with Canadian values," Levant said.
I beg to differ. What Elsayed is doing couldn't possibly be any more Canadian. In Ohio, meanwhile, even a cartoon about CNN's refusal to show the cartoons is too much for the local CAIR chapter.
Posted by damian at February 12, 2006 06:40 PM | TrackBack