CNN host returns ADL award over group's opposition to Ground Zero mosque

[azurnoir]

Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has returned a First Amendment award to the Anti-Defamation League in protest of the organization's opposition to a proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Zakaria, a Washington Post columnist and CNN host, has been the editor of Newsweek International, a journal with a circulation of 24 million, for almost a decade. He published a blog on Friday publicly announcing that he had returned the ADL's Hubert H. Humphrey Freedoms Prize.

"I was thrilled to get the award from an organization that I had long admired. But I cannot in good conscience keep it anymore. I have returned both the handsome plaque and the $10,000 honorarium that came with it. I urge the ADL to reverse its decision. Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain a reputation."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/cnn-host-returns-adl-award-over-group-s-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque-1.306527

[Radical Activist]

1. Well, that takes guts.

Nice.

[frebrd]

2. Good for him!

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