Stifling Mark Steyn, continued: Tory minister slams Muslim censors
Hear, hear (hat tip - reader A.V.):
A Conservative cabinet minister says the Canadian Islamic Congress is attempting to undermine basic Charter freedoms by filing complaints against a journalist who wrote a book on the Muslim world.
Jason Kenney, the secretary of state for multiculturalism, weighed in Wednesday on the controversy surrounding columnist Mark Steyn’s bestseller America Alone. The Canadian Islamic Congress has filed complaints with federal and provincial human rights commissions based on an excerpt of Steyn’s book that appeared in Maclean’s Magazine in October.
“To be attacking opinions expressed by a columnist in a major magazine is a pretty bold attack on the basic Canadian value of freedom of the press and freedom of expression,” Kenney said in an interview. “I think all Canadians would reject that kind of effort to undermine one of our basic freedoms.”
The Congress has argued that the article in Maclean’s “subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt,” and is “flagrantly Islamophobic.” Maclean’s has refused the Congress’ request to publish an unedited, multi-paged rebuttal to Steyn’s commentary.
The excerpt from Steyn’s book, headlined “The Future Belongs to Islam,” outlines how the Islamic world is becoming more powerful with robust population growth versus the dwindling birth rate in the Western world. He argues that western democracies have failed to reinforce their own traditional values and identity to such an extent that radical and violent Muslim groups are allowed to flourish unchecked within their borders.
Other Muslim organizations and commentators have also criticized the Canadian Islamic Congress for its complaints against Maclean’s.
In a commentary posted Thursday on the magazine’s website, members of the Muslim Canadian Congress said Steyn’s arguments are all wrong, but taking him to tribunals in the wrong approach.
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Canadian Islamic Congress? Congressional Black Caucus? What the heck is it with all these people setting themselves apart whilst all they do is foist useless and unwanted legislation that tries to reduce us all to slave status? BE GONE GOVERNMENT NOSE COUNTERS AND POLEMICS! Setting yourselves apart is mere fuel for the fire to speed your warped agendas and relegate us to your money-source-minions.
Did I miss something or did I sleep too long?
I thought their method was to talk over and talk louder to get their point across.
And so it begins. The attempt to censor freedom of speech because Muslims don’t like what is said. Allow this to happen and it won’t be long before that toe in the door to censorship opens the door wide to total control of freedom of speech by the religion of Islam. I hope the US is paying attention.
This assault on Steyn in Canada is almost as worrisome as the abuse of the libel laws in Britain. A proper function of the US government would be negotiating binding international treaties that would protect US residents and their intellectual property from prosecution in foreign local courts. Legitimate disputes arising from offshore publishing could be sent to a special tribunal, like the Trade Court. Then the government could decide if it wished to pursue damages against the author if he was found at fault.
Looks like another operation teddy drop is in order. DO NOT SUBMIT as his fatigue’s.
“Operation Teddy Drop”
That these swine speak at all their opinions about other peoples’ opinions about them is testament to the virtue of free speech, unlike the infernos from whence their ancestors have crawled to freedom itself.
It speaks to the collective sense of inferiority among these jihadi lite assemblies. What have their religious fellows contributed to the societies they currently inhabit?
Hmmm. No kidding.
The Halal Dunkin Donuts business didn’t catch on, eh?
Bottom line: This is a size issue for the CIC. Offended at every turn by every differing opinion. What are they hiding? Besides women’s raw meat of course.
The backlash is coming.
Strike at the heart of their male inferiority: SIZE DOES MATTER across Mo Teddy’s t-shirt.
this is what we have to look forward to in a few years. yes we will soon have a black caucus and an islamic caucus. just wait and see. we will be having to fight our enemy from within..
gee where i have heard that before???
get ready folks we are in for a bumpy ride. i don’t see it getting better until we deal with Islam is not a religion but a government ideology. and because they cannot separate the two it is unacceptable as it is in direct opposition to our constitution.
So what they want is to murder us and we can’t say anything about it.
What???? What?????? I thought only colleges did that! (They have “deans of multiculturalism”)
ROTFLMAO!!!!
AMERICA ALONE is Mark Steyn’s book.
A very important read for those who truly wish to engage the enemy.
Buy it or borrow it.
OK … for those that have heard this from me before … forgive me …
I have called repeatedly for an end to the “hyphenated-American” … there is no such thing as a Chinese-American, an African-American, a Muslim-American, or anything else-American …
To me this phraseology makes the ethnic part appear to carry more weight than the American part at the back of the hyphen …
You are either an American or you are not an American …
Regardless of your ancestry, of which you have every right to be proud and which I respect you and your family for, being an American has to come first and your ethnicity has to come later …
It looks like some of the Canadians need to look at themselves in the mirror and realize they are also being taken over from within …
Mark Steyn needs all the support he can get against these people … and it looks like at least a few are beginning to wake up to the threat they face in Canada …
Wish we could get more people in this country to wake up to those same facts …
If it were me, it would be an “Operation stuffed pot bellied pig drop”. The pig dressed in a football skin with a “Dashboard Muhammad” logo. Heavily perfumed with essence of pork fat, of course.
uhangtight
As I have posted before … Islam is no longer a religion … it has been hijacked by extremists and it is a cult of brainwashed sheep … it must either join the modern world or disappear from this earth …
So how do I form a White Caucus? Oh wait, Strom Thurmond already tried he called it the KKK and it ended up being labeled a hate group.
Funny how these other groups aren’t labeled as hate groups. CAIR, Nation of Islam, La Raza etc. etc.
Not that I advocate ANYTHING endorsed by the KKK, I just have a real problem with the double standards.
By the way I’m a Euro-American.
Desertlover #12 AMEN !!!!!
Bear1909 #6
“The backlash is coming.”
O no Darling…the backlash is well underway & only getting more determined & about to be VERY visible.
The arrogance of groups that hate, & plot takeover, is what defeats them. Evil cannot maintain the sustained effort needed for the long battle. CAIR, LaRAZA…they are shooting themselves in the feet as they stick their agendas up the nose of simple,good citizens of all colors & nations. There are 2 things that schemers cannot count on…Nature & Human Nature.
We have had enough, & We will not submit.
Hmmmm. WWVTD? (What Would Vlad Tepes Do?)
#18 TexasTiger ITOLSPS! (Impale Them On Long Sharp Pointy Stakes)
Rock on! Freedom and Mark Steyn for the win!
We already have a case like Steyn’s here. I refer to Michael Savage’s imbroglio with CAIR. The same issue of free speech is at stake.
I don’t think any hijacking was necessary. It ALWAYS has been the way it is now. Just read history.
Ok, here we go again - the thing that leads to hatred and contempt of Islam and to Islamophobia is the behavior of Muslims!
I would love to be at a press conference held by the leaders of the Canadian Islamic Congress. I would have a question: “Yes, sir, have you or any of the other’s on stage with you killed one of your children today for exposing their hair? And as a follow-up, when was the last time each of you killed or had killed, one of your own children in an honor-killing. Thank you.”
No reason for hatred and contempt of that practice …
#10 On December 13th, 2007 at 9:57 am, RedRepub said:
“Jason Kenney, the secretary of state for multiculturalism, weighed in Wednesday
What???? What?????? I thought only colleges did that! (They have “deans of multiculturalism”)
ROTFLMAO!!!!”
Agreed!!
“…secretary of state for multiculturalism…” sounds as silly as “Ministry for Administrative Affairs” in the Britcom series “Yes, Minister”.
I guess you really can’t make this stuff up, after all!
#22 On December 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pm, conservativesRus said:
“As I have posted before … Islam is no longer a religion … it has been hijacked by extremists and it is a cult of brainwashed sheep … it must either join the modern world or disappear from this earth
I don’t think any hijacking was necessary. It ALWAYS has been the way it is now. Just read history.”
Exactly.
Am I wrong to think that many passages in the “Holy” Qur’an amount to nothing more than hate speech? Isn’t it about time that we no longer tolerate hate speech from this group of thugs, and protest loudly and often when these passages are spoken, or referred to, as holy scripture?
We need to make them, the Islamists, live up to the same standards they demand of us. Islam is not religion…it is oppression, and hate incarnate!
Creepinggalloping sharia is the most dangerous foe we have.Too bad most of Western Civilization is alseep.
Maybe this GREAT trailer will help them wake up!
“The reaction of the CIC has only given credence to his premise - that Muslims in the West cannot accept the values of
individualinfidel freedom, a free press and the right to offend,” wroteTarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan. 96FSWestern Civilization is not asleep, but going willfully to their cultural death.
Just look at what Britian’s Milibrand just did by signing away Brintian’s right to enforce immigration to the E.U. unelected court judges.
Western Civilization is maked for change to empower a few.
Well said.
There’s never a good Crusade when you need one!