Magazine publisher Levant wins Danish cartoon dispute

by Joseph Brean
National Post
August 6, 2008

https://www.legal-project.org/114/magazine-publisher-levant-wins-danish-cartoon

Excerpt:

After a year-long investigation, the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission has rejected a complaint by the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities against former Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant over his republication of the Danish Muhammad cartoons.

The allegation that the February 14, 2006, issue of the now defunct magazine was likely to expose Muslims to hatred helped to spark a national debate about human rights law and free speech, and its rejection comes after similar complaints of Islamophobia against Maclean's magazine also failed.

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