As reported by the National Post in a Wednesday editorial, the op-ed page of the Globe and Mail recently published a column by National Council on Canada-Arab Relations executive director Mazen Chouaib. In the column, Mr. Chouaib vigorously criticized the National Post and its parent company which he believes harbour an anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias. To support his case, he supplied two quotations from National Post columnist George Jonas--including "Islam is at fault for blowing up civilians" and "[Islam] is the new evil empire" (the square brackets are Mr. Chouaib's). But as Mr. Jonas reported on these pages two days ago, he never wrote those things. Mr. Chouaib appears to have simply made the quotations up.

Unfortunately this is by no means the first such offence for Canada's would-be newspaper of record--as I can attest from direct experience.

Alongside Mazen Chouaib, one of the Globe's regular columnists is the chair of the Canadian branch of the Council of American Islamic Relations, a woman named Sheema Khan. In a June 18 column, Khan did to me and my coauthor Richard Perle exactly what Mazen Chouaib did to George Jonas: She fabricated a quotation by gathering together sentences that appeared 39 pages apart in An End to Evil and presenting them as if they constituted a single paragraph. The resulting pseudo-quote viciously distorted the argument of the book and the personal beliefs of Richard Perle and myself.

Like Jonas, I presented these facts to the editors of the Globe and Mail. And in my case as in his, they declined to correct the record. They allowed me to write a letter to the editor pointing out the error. They refused, however, to make any correction of their own or to print that letter's final sentence, which warned that Sheema Khan's organization has a history of unscrupulous behaviour. (The full text of the letter will be found below.)

The Globe retained Khan as a columnist, apparently without reprimand for her malpractice. Understandably, Khan's ideological associates have interpreted her survival as an open invitation to mimic her journalistic practices. It's not nearly so understandable that the Globe should open its pages to writers with extremist agendas, without making even the most cursory effort to ascertain whether their work meets the most rudimentary standards of truthfulness.

To the editor of the Globe and Mail: "[T]he U.S. neo-conservative movement has set Islam squarely in its crosshairs."

So Sheema Khan of the Council of American-Islamic Relations' Canadian section wrote in the Globe and Mail on June 18. As evidence, Khan quotes from An End to Evil by Richard Perle and myself: "The roots of Muslim rage are to be found in Islam itself. There is no middle way. It is victory or holocaust."

But this quote was manufactured by Khan herself. The words, "There is no middle way, etc." appear on page 9 of An End to Evil, and refer to the new dangers posed by terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction.

The words about "the roots of Muslim rage" appear 39 pages later in the course of a discussion about the rise of extremist ideology in the Muslim Middle East.

At no point do we call for "victory" over Muslims or suggest that the terrorist conflict is a war between East and West. We repeatedly and specifically argue the opposite. Just one example: "But while Americans have no proper quarrel with Islam, a radical strain within Islam has declared war on us."

Khan's group, CAIR, has too often served as an apologist for that radical strain within Islam. Her untruthful methods should raise troubling questions in the minds of both her readers and her editors about her larger purposes.

David Frum is a resident fellow at AEI.