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Mark Steyn in Trouble
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It looks like Islam is striking back at Mark Steyn:
Steyn does throw out the red meat pretty liberally, but this does sound like madness. Ironically, this even bolsters his point, that the forces of Islam are starting to take more control of our lives, and that's just backwards. They really should be more influenced by the West and our ideals of individual liberty, like not whipping people who name a teddy bear Muhammad or for being gang-raped, or executing gays, which are true violations of human rights.
(Source: David Warren at RealClearPolitics.com)
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It looks like Islam is striking back at Mark Steyn:
And I make this point in light of the case that has been brought against Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine, before Human Rights Commissions for Canada, British Columbia, and Ontario, by the Canadian Islamic Congress, led by Mohamed Elmasry. The first two commissions have already agreed to hear the case, and thus rule on whether Mark Steyn had the right to express the opinions and beliefs in his bestselling book, America Alone, and specifically in the excerpt entitled, “The Future Belongs to Islam,” which ran in Maclean's last year. According to the complaint, by expressing his opinions and beliefs, Mark Steyn “subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and Islamophobia.”I didn't even know that Human Rights Commissions had this power, as it sounds like a kind of super court, along the lines of the WTO.
Steyn does throw out the red meat pretty liberally, but this does sound like madness. Ironically, this even bolsters his point, that the forces of Islam are starting to take more control of our lives, and that's just backwards. They really should be more influenced by the West and our ideals of individual liberty, like not whipping people who name a teddy bear Muhammad or for being gang-raped, or executing gays, which are true violations of human rights.
(Source: David Warren at RealClearPolitics.com)