Comments on: Mark Steyn acquitted in Canadian sharia case

By: Michelle Malkin » Tweet of the Day

Michelle Malkin » Tweet of the Day — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:25:19 +0000

[...] lives and works in Canada, where they put critics of sharia law on trial for hate [...]

By: Politics @ Up North Mommy » Quebec judge undermines parents’ rights in Canada

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:42:54 +0000

[...] It was a shocking attempt to police the thougths and speech through intimidation and persecution. Steyn ultimately won out and was acquitted, but the fog of political correctness gone wild still hangs in the air above [...]

By: miamipress.net | miamipress.net

miamipress.net | miamipress.net — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:33 +0000

[...] Mark Steyn acquitted in Canadian sharia case [...]

By: Mark Steyn found innocent — Cranach: The Blog of Veith

Mark Steyn found innocent — Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:05:48 +0000

[...] In a case we have blogged about in the past, a Canadian human rights tribunal has acquitted columnist Mark Steyn of the charge of “hate speech” for criticizing Islam. See Mark Steyn acquitted in Canadian sharia case. [...]

By: graysonret

graysonret — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:49:09 +0000

After January, expect “free speech” to be like guns…highly regulated.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MarkHillman/2008/10/12/intimidation_by_obamanation

By: Bobzuronkle

Bobzuronkle — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:54:30 +0000

Mark is hoping the Canadian Islamic Congress appeals. In fact he's offering $1000 toward their cause!

By: Wochenend-Schaschlik « abseits vom mainstream - heplev

Wochenend-Schaschlik « abseits vom mainstream - heplev — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:37:21 +0000

[...] Steyn hat Glück gehabt. Der Nachweis, er sei „eklatant islamophobisch“ und habe mit seinem letzten Buch ein [...]

By: rightisright

rightisright — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0000

On October 10th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, maisy said:If I am gonna have to wear a burqua …I’m having some more ice cream!

Good one maisy.
can you imagine the great tasting food you’ll be able to enjoy and not worry about how you’ll look.

By: gunslingerpatriot

gunslingerpatriot — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:53:23 +0000

While our country maynot have HRC, we have something very simuliar on college campuses and they are called “Speech Codes”.

Anything that does not follow the lefts mantra of political correctness, is immediately shouted down and offending person either shunned or worse yet expelled.

MM has written extensively about them over the years.

GSP

By: FamilyMan

FamilyMan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:36:24 +0000

What happened to the free speech movement by the left in 1964? Your only free if it’s their speech.

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:54:39 +0000

Well at least it is Happy Charles the Hammer saves the West from Islam at Tours Day to all. Yes dear friends Charles Martel and friends killed mohammedans from morning to night on October 11th, 732 and the whiners are still mad about it. They consider it the first Crusade, damn trinitarians hitting back and all. So I repeat: Happy Charles the Hammer saves the West from Islam at Tours Day.
But there is no truth to the rumor I am starting that one of the mohammedan generals was named Barack Hussein Obama, none at all.
—
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:08:20 +0000

Get a clue folks! Do you think a form of this radicalism doesn’t already exist in the US, and will doubtless get worse under Obama?

Have you tried to exercise your right to free speech lately? Just yesterday a Sheriff who gared to refer to Obama as HUSSEIN Obama has been pilloried for it. Talk about a black person with disdain and you are a RACIST and should lose your job (hello, Imus?). Wear a shirt with a gun or critical of Obama on it and your kid is suspended from school by a leftist so-called “educator.” Call attention to a bunch of ragheads causing a commotion before boarding an airplane and you get sued. And on and on and on.

Anyone see any difference at all between Canada and the US in this regard? I don’t.

By: twofoot

twofoot — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:40:15 +0000

Islamophobia is no different than homophobia, or any other “phobia”. Just a way to bowbeat people into being silent when the see something they disagree with.

In the case of “homophobia”, giving in and allowing yourself to be silenced leads to color coordinated living rooms and simply fabulous outfits.

Allowing yourself to be silenced because of being labled as “Islamophobic” leads to an eventual nasty case of ‘headchoppedoffitis’.

By: It Almost Sounds Like Parody « Tai-Chi Policy

It Almost Sounds Like Parody « Tai-Chi Policy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:34:05 +0000

[...] It Almost Sounds Like Parody October 11, 2008 Posted by taoist in Democrats, Free Speech, Human Rights, Liberty, Politics. trackback Too bad it’s not…No, I don’t think the left is going to really lock people up for stating an opinion that differs from their own, but they sure would like to fine the crap out of them – Just look at the sham trial Mark Steyn had to go through in Canada. [...]

By: Send_Me

Send_Me — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:13:48 +0000

On October 10th, 2008 at 5:44 pm, Tantor said:
The term “Islamaphobia” is itself a lie. It implies that people have a negative opinion of Islam not because of the Sep 11 attacks, the Tube attacks, the Madrid attacks, the Mumbai attacks, and the ten thousand Muslim terror attacks that followed, but rather that people have a negative opinion of Islam for no good reason at all.

Well, I have a negative opinion of Islam for one primary reason: it’s wrong, historically and philosophically, but hey, who really cares about truth anymore? All of the things you listed are the consequences of said wrong idea.