I told you about this situation earlier.

Below is Rory’s email to friends:

From: Rory Leishman [mailto:roryleishman@gmail.com]

Dear All:

Joe Ruscitti, recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of the London Free Press, has disclosed in his weekly column for the newspaper that I have resigned as a freelance columnist for the Free Press in protest over his decision to censor my last column on Islamist extremism 

I have been told by two friends whose judgment I esteem that I have made a mistake in resigning on principle over this matter. Perhaps so, but what is done is done. However, this is not the end of my punditry: I plan to go on working as a freelancer for other news outlets.

As for the Free Press dispute, I think readers of my column might find the comments appended to Joe’s column particularly interesting. They include several kind comments, which I much appreciate, as well as some vitriolic abuse. One critic, Leila Paul — presumably the same Leila Paul who is running for London city council and was formerly employed as a news anchor for the CBC in Vancouver — has suggested that the Free Press would have been open to a libel suit if it had printed my disclosure that two prominent local imams, Sheik Jamal Taleb and Dr. Munir El-Kassem, had taken part in a recent lecture series at the London chapter of the Muslim Association of Canada, an Islamist organization dedicated to promoting the ideas of Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Here, in part, is what she wrote:

What follows are three non-lawyers talking about libel law — always a bad idea and NEVER worth reading.

Rory continues:  

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