Quiz for Globe and Mail readers

In a web-only column in the Globe and Mail, Syed Soharwardy tries to put a noble face on his decision to cut and run from the human rights commission -- leaving Alberta taxpayers with a $500,000 tab, and me with my legal bills. (By the way, Soharwardy's friends at the Edmonton Muslim Council filed an identical complaint against me, so the human rights commission will continue to grind on against me even if he does abandon his complaint, which he has not done yet.)

Read Soharwardy's column (okay, let's be honest, the author of his hand-scrawled, typo-ridden, child's logic complaint, and the author of Globe and Mail column are not the same person) and answer this quiz:

1. In his Globe article, Soharwardy says he filed the complaint because he was concerned about Muslim youth intergrating into Canada. Can you find any mention of that in his complaint? Actually, his main complaint wasn't even that I published the cartoons -- it was that I dared defend my right to do so.

2. In the Globe, Soharwardy says he'd like to sit down with me and have a good talk. Can you find that liberal spirit in this letter he sent to me a few weeks ago?

3. In the Globe, Soharwardy says he's a pretty mainstream guy who abhors anti-Semitism. Check out this page and this page from Soharwardy's website archives. Which part is mainstream, and which part abhors anti-Semitism?

Soharwardy has spent two years trying to have the Calgary Police Service arrest me, and the human rights commissions condemn me. What's happened instead is that he himself has been exposed as a tin-pot fascist -- and he's rekindled a national rededication to the idea of freedom of speech and the separation of mosque and state. That's why he's changed course, and is opting for a PR strategy. I know it's not a halal metaphor, but you just can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.