The Edmonton Journal is kind of behind the times
They’re just reporting now that Syed Soharwardy, the Calgary imam who filed a human rights complaint against Ezra Levant for his (now defunct) magazine’s publication of the Muhammed cartoons, has “open[ed his] heart to freedom of speech.”
And if you buy that, I’ve got a bridge in Whitecourt to sell you.
The MSM is, in this case, only about three weeks behind the blogs — Kathy Shaidle covered this story back in November, and called bollocks on Syed’s newfound embrace of freedom of expression.
Having been internationally humiliated, by a Jew no less, Syed doesn’t think to resign his position and live a life of quiet penitential service, avoiding the public eye at all costs. Nah, too… Christian.
Instead, Syed, who always maintains the imprint of the last person who sat on him, has finally detected the change in the societal air: “victimhood”, if not “out”, is ever so slightly on the skids; now, “free speech” is in (if the Conservative Party resolution is anything to go by.)
Note that he suddenly hasn’t finally discovered Enlightenment principles after living here in Anglo-Saxon Land for 20 years in total oblivion; this is all about ass-covering and faddishness.
Newspapers: we need them why?
