More On Cartoon Capers

I watched the CTV clips of Ezra Levant defending his decision to reprint the cartoons in the Western Standard and thought he did a credible job. You can view the clips here and here. Tarek Fatah from the Canadian Muslim Congress debates him in the second clip but really has nothing to say. He admitted that the Standard had every right to publish the pictures but claimed that unless it also published a biography of the prophet it wasn't balanced journalism.

Meanwhile Indigo Books & Music (Chapters, Coles) and McNally Robinson Booksellers are refusing to carry this issue of the Standard. So to them and all the Canadian media that have elected to self censor on this issue, here's another quote from Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Shame on those papers and TV channels who lacked the courage to show their readers the caricatures in The Cartoon Affair. These intellectuals live off free speech but they accept censorship. They hide their mediocrity of mind behind noble-sounding terms such as "‘responsibility"’ and "‘sensitivity"’.

Shame on those politicians who stated that publishing and re-publishing the drawings was "‘unnecessary"’, "‘insensitive"’, "‘disrespectful"’ and "‘wrong"’. I am of the opinion that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark acted correctly when he refused to meet with representatives of tyrannical regimes who demanded from him that he limit the powers of the press. Today we should stand by him morally and materially. He is an example to all other European leaders. I wish my prime minister had Rasmussen'’s guts.