Radio / Television News

“Kill him who changes his religion” – not in the Qur’an

OTTAWA – Ottawa radio host Lowell Green was found by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to have violated Canadian Broadcast Standards thanks to a mistaken quote the broadcaster thought was from Islam's holy book the Koran, or Qur'an. While the CBSC supported Green's CFRA program generally for tackling the issue of apostasy and the case of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan who had been condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, it condemned his error. "'Kill him who changes his religion'", a quote Green read as fact from the Qur'an which was actually in a letter to the editor...