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Bridges burns: Rogers “ignoring Muslim community”


TORONTO – The owners of Bridges TV took their fight for carriage on Rogers Cable to the media late on Wednesday. An incendiary press release from the English-language Muslim specialty service obviously meant as an unvarnished public attempt to bully the cable company into capitulation, says that by not letting Bridges TV into its channel lineup Rogers is ignoring and discriminating against the Muslim community, is censoring Islam and disrupting dialog between the Muslim community and all Canadians. By not adding American-owned Bridges TV, Rogers may even be at fault for the fact Muslims in Canada "continue to bear acts...