The National Post is reporting that Syed Soharwardy, the man who lodged a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission against publisher Ezra Levant and his Western Standard magazine for republishing the Danish Muhammad cartoons, has withdrawn his complaint, claiming that he recognizes Levant’s actions as a free speech issue and that “Canadian society is mature enough not to absorb the messages that the cartoons sent.”
For his part, Levant plans to sue Soharwardy for damages. As well, there is a movent underway to remove Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (the section dealing with hate speech).
Related: P.M. Jaworski at the Western Standard’s “Shotgun Blog” responds.
See Sequential’s coverage of this case here.