The War Room

HEATHER REISMAN: PUBLIC HYPOCRITE # 1

The hypocrisy of Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo is rather astounding.

It seems that in addition to banning an issue of Harper's because they published the Danish cartoons about Islam a few months ago, they have also banned an issue of another magazine called "Free Inquiry, a small U.S. periodical published near Buffalo by the Council for Secular Humanism".

No official reason has been giving for the banning of the current issue but the mags editor Tom Flynn speculates...

Ms. Reisman may have been offended by an editorial in the latest issue entitled The Freedom to Ridicule Religion -- and Deny the Holocaust, by Princeton University bioethicist and animal-rights activist Peter Singer. The editorial says "we should forcefully defend the right of newspaper editors to publish such cartoons," while calling on Austria to repeal its law against Holocaust denial after the imprisonment of British historian David Irving. (Mr. Singer is the son of Austrian Jews.) Ms. Reisman, a founder of the lobby group the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, made headlines in 2001 when she ordered all copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf pulled from her stores.

So Reisman will ban magazines that depict the Danish cartoons or that contain articles that defend the right to deny the Holocaust but...Hmmm...at the Indigo at the corner of Young and Eglinton, all summer long there has been a display for The DaVinci Code which rewrites the past to make Catholics the scourge of history.

For Heather Riesman, apparently it is alright to spread hate against some groups but not others.

Understand here, I do not argue The DaVinci Code should be banned but to ban magazines that offend Jews or Muslims but not a book that rewrites history to libel one of the largest religions on the planet is pure hypocrisy.

Considering the size of the displays and the money that Reisman is making off the Code, it takes a special kind of hypocrite.

I do not condone or condemn most boycotts. But I will say that I haven't shopped in an Indigo in years.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 2:25 PM