Please read this in its entirety: Canadian journalist resigns after newspaper spikes his anti-jihad column. I just want to quote this one part taken from an email from Rory to friends:
One last observation: Joe has kindly informed his readers that I have posted my censored column on my own website. That’s good.
However, the Free Press has still not published any report about the poem glorifying a homicide bomber in the July issue of the London newspaper Al-Bilad or informed its readers about the association of prominent local Muslim leaders with the Muslim Association of Canada, which, to repeat, avows on its website that it “adopts and strives to implement Islam … as understood in its contemporary context by the late Imam, Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood” — and the jihadist memorialized in the Hamas Charter for having declaimed: ““Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
The question remains: Why will the Free Press not cover these stories with their obvious local interest and serious implications for our national security?
As Mr Leishman says in the explanation to Freeps editor Ruscitti, the proper procedure would have been to “publish the column as is and give Taleb and El-Kassem an opportunity to publish a rebuttal.” Hell, that might have even been an actual opportunity to sell more papers. Instead the Freeps practices censorship, ensuring that news and editorials are first run through their politically-correct filter, providing its usual pablum for the masses.
I think the following comment, found here, sums up a lot of Londoners’ feelings about the Freeps: “This ridiculous action on the part of the London Free Press is another example why we have to continually seek out other news sources in order to be informed, and why I dropped my subscription to the local newspaper a long time ago.”
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Ah, yes, the London Free Press, a division of Sun Media.
I think to be a newswaper editor, one should have balls. Big balls if you want to sell papers. So many unanswered questions as to why an islamic terrorist would pick London as his hood. It was not random, he must have had support here. I am glad Rory stood his ground, he has big balls.
The LFP has been widely mocked on the internet as a low brow partisan propaganda rag for at least a decade. It’s second only to the Star as an obvious liberal party pimp. The condescending attitude but child-like lecturing of most broadsheets puked me out decades ago but the LFP has garnered my special contempt for the way they spun the whole AD Scam scandal as being a tempest in a teapot. At that point I realized they crossed the line from comical sycophant natterers to dangerous subverters of truth .
If LFP burned down tomorrow would it really be missed? Or the Star or Globe? Not likely. There are enough deceitful manipulators of public opinion in the world without extending this evil that retards democratic maturation.
A Sun Media paper ranks “second only to the Star as an obvious liberal party pimp”?
Wow!
The editorials advocated a liberal 4 PM 8 elections in a row Brian…so they’re what?…Tories? Libertarians? Populists?
Lots of letters to the editor lfp, from across Canada, denouncing Joe Who. It will be interesting to see if Joe Who prints them.
I took this one out of the letters to editor lfp because I doubt they will print it. They put all the other submissions, which there are many, about Rory being censored under the heading Free Speech. They put Kay’s under general. I found that sort of odd. Of course it is an excellent letter from Kay. Joe Who is going to get an ass whupping for this. We can start speculating now who will be replacing Joe Who as the editor of the lfp.
General
Rory Leishman spiked column
In my opinion you have made a serious error in judgment in forcing Rory Leishman to stand by his perfectly fair comment on the Muslim Brotherhood and those who associate with them. You have now sent the message to all Muslims tempted by the radicalism of the Muslim Brotherhood that no shame or public comment attends their association with that scurrilous organization. I doubt you would have gone so easy on people who openly associated with white supremacists. In taking a stand against Rory Leishman, you have defended the policy of appeasement when dealing with those whose stated purpose is to undermine and then overthrow our society. I do believe this decision will come back to haunt you.
Posted By: Barbara Kay, (columnist, National Post), Westmount
Posted On: September 27, 2010-letters to editor, lfp
I think that deserves it’s own post (coming shortly). I wrote a reply to her letter and I got this message: MESSAGE: Ooops! Thank you! Message Accepted.
My comment still sits there as if it wasn’t sent, so I’m not sure if it actually went through.
When it says Ooops, it went. You got to get in there and read some of those letters to the editor. I am telling you, we are not alone in London, there are many that think just like we do.
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