Tackling a delicate subject like Islamism can be a dangerous thing in the Western world.
Today an article was published concerning a defamation lawsuit against blogger/journalist Daniel Bordman, whose reporting on Walied Soliman landed him in court.
Walied Soliman was the campaign director for Conservative leader Erin O’Toole. He was also manager for provincial PC leader Patrick Brown.
According to Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell, Bordman “took no reasonable steps “to ensure the overall accuracy of the factual assertions”, that he “made false statements of fact.”
Mr Bordman’s reporting, even if true, was unfortunately not accompanied by hard evidence, and as a result, he was sued for defamation. You can read the story here.
We are no strangers to the courts favouring a Muslim or left-wing client. Unfortunately, the courts do not apply the letter of the law across the board.
In our case, we had video evidence of the plaintiff’s misdemeanor, but according to the judge, defamation was the ruling of the day because of a tweet calling the plaintiff out for his inappropriate behaviour.
Similar situations have been seen with Tommy Robinson, Geert Wilders, and others who have spoken out against Islamism.
The lesson to be learned is this: even if you have solid evidence, the courts most probably will not rule in your favour if the subject is Islamism, or is anyone remotely connected to Islam. Be very careful what you say, and be sure you can back up what you say with solid evidence.
On the other hand, our opposition seem to be quite within their ‘rights’ to proposition, threaten, slander and defame. There never seem to be consequences for them. The world we live in.
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