The WPI and the right-wing journalist

“Premier Dalton McGuinty was tapdancing very cautiously around sharia law yesterday. And rightly so. Of all the nasty issues likely to blow up in his face before the next election, this is a huge one. What it boils down to is, how much multiculturalism is too much? Chowing down on souvlaki at Taste of the Danforth is one thing. But what about entrenching an ancient legal system that, in its extreme forms, calls for stoning and amputation?”

Christina Blizzard in the Toronto Sun, 7 September 2005

The article includes a friendly interview with Homa Arjomand of the Worker Communist Party of Iran. I confess to being unfamiliar with Christina Blizzard’s oeuvre. However, I googled her name and found her described as “one of the most partisan pro-right writers in Ontario in the mainstream media”.