You are quite right T_Ball. I think enough readers complained about the paper censoring free speech. It was Justice Dickson of the Supreme Court who ruled on a hate speech case that political discourse should never ever be censored. This is a political topic pure and simple. 

People who post racial epitaphs should be censored, there is no place for that in a public forum but this is far from the case here.  

Now there are a couple of Trolls who post and if they do not like the ideology expressed they say it is hate speech. The few involved must be having absolute conniptions judging by the overwhelming response yesterday and today but tough.  Discussions like this are healthy and everyone gets to put forward their views, some may even change peoples minds. I myself would like to see a Muslim woman who defends her right to wear religious apparel give a counter argument - and I would respect her right to express herself!