The Censors Sponsor an Evening With Mouthy Manji--Whassup With That?

The Canadian Human Rights Commission, the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation are holding a joint event on Tuesday, March 29th to examine the impact of individual rights on social integration and Canadian identity. How do responsibilities play into the process of integration within a diverse society? How should we address rights that are in conflict?

The guest, Irshad Manji, is a critically-acclaimed author and activist from Vancouver...

At first glance it seems odd that the Canadian Human Rights Commission would co-sponsor an evening with the author of The Trouble With Islam (a tome that sounds like the sort of thing that could well elicit a Section 13 hate speech complaint). However, from the sound of it, her new book--Allah, Liberty and Love--may be somewhat squishier, and thus more to the CHRC's taste. And there's certainly squish aplenty in the rest of the CHRC blurb:

Irshad is pioneering efforts throughout the world to promote Muslim reform and moral courage. She teaches that rights come with responsibilities and that meaningful diversity embraces different ideas and not just identities.

Okay, now I'm thoroughly confused. Is the CHRC signalling that it finally "gets" that diversity of provenance is bollocks if it isn't accompanied by diversity of viewpoint? Or is it merely using Manji to make itself look more accepting of different ideas than it actually is (so that vituperative right-wingers will lay off, and it can go back to doing what it did before the rock was overturned and the hidden ugliness exposed)?