Fareed Zakaria, Mr. Toleration

Newsweek Editor Fareed Zakaria as the poster child for Moslem tolerance? Fuggetabout it. He's just a scribe who can't practice what he preaches.

In 2005, the Anti-Defamation League awarded him the Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Award championing free speech, which he kindly accepted probably along with a nice chicken dinner and some nice kosher vino.

And it remained in his office at Newsweek until the ADL had the utter temerity to opine that a mosque near Ground Zero should be a nix. They didn't say that there should never be a mosque anywhere near the Western Hemisphere, just that one near Ground Zero should be a no-go.

Blathering on about free speech and about how Feisal Abdul Rauf, the guy behind the mosque is really one heck of a guy, despite all his ties to radical Muslim organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, Zarakia returned the award to the ADL. I guess that while exercising his right to free speech, he forgot that Abraham Foxman at the ADL has his right to free speech, too. Guess that small details like that don't matter to Zakaria.

If he were so concerned about free speech and freedom of religion, he might want to aim his pen and articles towards the Moslem countries where there is not one synagogue or church and where people cower in fear for being what they are because he'd be busy for quite some time.