Calgary Sun columnist Licia Corbella is stunned to discover that a Calgary Muslim forum spews hatred. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.)

Recently, three members of the Muslim Council of Calgary spent time meeting with our editorial board. We spent almost two hours engaged in debate and discussion. Hussein Amery, vice-chair of the MCC repeated how eager he and all Muslims are to be better portrayed in the media.

“We’re enlisting your help so we can convey what the council would like people here to know,” said Amery, who has a PhD in psychology and is also a denturist in Calgary. “We want to expose the truth about Islam and about Muslims in Canada. We want to articulate change through your paper and through all avenues of media that are available to us.”

Hatim Zaghloul, chairman of the MCC said: “We in the west need to encourage Muslim voices. The problem is we don’t have a forum for moderates.”

I agreed immediately to be welcoming of well-written columns and reminded them of the letters to the editor section.

One of the main avenues the MCC does have available to it at all times is the website that is run as the site says “under the direction of Muslim Council of Calgary” (www.calgarymuslims.com).

I logged onto that site and instead of finding moderation and a message of peace, as I had expected and was told was their aim, I was immediately bombarded with vile hatred directed towards Jews — reams and reams of it and what’s worse, there was not one real objection to it listed on the site anywhere.

I don’t know what it looked like when Ms Corbella saw it, but the front page of CalgaryMuslims.com is currently overcompensating in the opposite direction. Almost comically. Except for the hate part.