NRO on Steyn, Muslim Plaintiffs
At the National Review, Stanley Kurtz has a great post about the Muslim law students who are suing Maclean’s over Mark Steyn’s article “The future belongs to Islam”. An excerpt:
They claim to be believers in the marketplace of ideas, merely seeking a chance to respond to Mark Steyn. What they don’t say is that they have demanded the right to a cover story in Maclean’s, with full editorial control over content and art.
Imagine NR, after publishing, say, a cover story critical of Al Gore’s movie, being forced by a government body to allow Gore to write a cover story in rebuttal, with full editorial control.
Patently ridiculous, of course. According to Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar, "Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours." Um, if this is your preferred line of thinking, Mullah, I would have to disagree. The way of the bludgeon can be dominant for a time, but not for long.
Anyway, read the NRO article – it concludes with a lengthy and cleverly cutting response to the issue written by Ali Eteraz that has to be read in its entirety to be properly savored.
h/t memeorandum
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I find Stain’s existence on the planet to be slightly less desirable than the existence of breast implants and ticks and I’ve already said the entire case and the plaintiffs can take a hike. Ali Eteraz’s articles is great, and this piece in the left-of-center Canadian publication The Tyee gives more meat on the bone. I hope no left-winger resorts to approving of this just because they disagree with the defendant or think he is too out-there.
I agree with the other poster. Stain is a disease on a free society. He writes articles that almost always contain an undercurrent of hate and jingoism. He can get away with it in the States as racsism, sexism and pure hate have always been a cause celebre. The country was built on the back of slaves and women have been second class citizens for most of its existence. In Canada, with its own checkered past, still does not tolerate hate speech. Thank the Jews for that who put the whole anti-hate speech thing into existence. It’s more than ironic that now the Arabs are using the Jewish influence over Canada’s cultural PC-ness to bully themselves into a publication to respond to Stain’s theories. (Jonah Goldberg is sure to append the word "fascist" to his description of Canadians as "wimps." ) And so it goes. Who wins. The Jews? The Arabs? Surely not MacLeans (it’s so weird in a liberal country like Canada that the national media – Globe and Mail, National Post, Global, CTV, and Sun media chain – are all far right wing), leaving only the CBC to broadcast Canada’s voice. But who knows? With the US taking such an interest in this, the current right-wing Canadian government just might step in and prevent the Arabs from having their say. Which is OK by me and certainly to you.
Steyn’s polemics often push the edge of the envelope, but while Ali E is correct in that not all Muslims are observant in Europe, the real danger is that when they reach a critical mass, the democrats may revert to a primitive ethos that condones honor killings and sharia excesses. While political officer in Saudi Arabia at the US Embassy, I often had to extricate with difficulty American citizens embroiled in the intolerant codes Salafists and Wahhabis inflict where they are in power. Even foreign nationals came to our Embassy for help, as their own legations couldn’t muster the muscle to get their citizens out of trouble. Even FOREIGN DIPLOMATS would come to us hat in hand. And sometimes we couldn’t get our own people out of trouble. The depth of Arab fanaticism in religious matters just doesn’t register in civilized enlightenment cultures. Yes, I have a lot of very civilized moderate Arab & Muslim friends, but when encased in one of their cultural cocoon environments, such as some suburbs in Europe, it’s a whole different ethos that surfaces….. The US doesn’t face this problem as most Muslims here are professionals or separated from their co-religionists. What Steyn is talking about is down the road a decade or so, but he’s the canary in the coal mine if the Islamic penchant to dissemble when faced with its fringe element practicing violent reactionary behavior continues to persist.
"(it’s so weird in a liberal country like Canada that the national media – Globe and Mail, National Post, Global, CTV, and Sun media chain – are all far right wing)"
Conrad Black. On a side note, while Goldberg got his career from his mother, Stain was handed it to him by this arrogant failure of a man called Black. Luckily Black is now in jail and Stain is getting publicized in fewer and fewer rags. He wouldn’t have received a spot in Macleans if it weren’t for the turn towards the odious outskirts of the right field said mag has made since 2005.
You know what’s truly sad about this?
Despite the long term effects of a case if won such as this, there is next to no Canadian medai coverage on this!
I think a whole bunch of Canadians should file HRC complaints against the HRC, make them pay to defend themselves.
I’m not blowing smoke, if there are enough of us, surely they can’t deal and punish us all for freedom of speech? I give the author full permission to give out the email address to SERIOUS inquiries.
I’m all for this, those serious enough contact the author of this page..
And on the final note, thanks to all those groups who whined bitched and complained about special treatment, ie homosexuals, blacks, asian gang members and now islamic nutters hell bent on killing us.
Look at where we are today, we warned you over the decades, now it’s time for you selfish, care for yourselves only idiots to start joining the rest of the world in terms of reality and real threats.
It’s to late to make any real significant changes, the damage has been done in the 70’s. We can only go into damage control now. Who’s brave enough to be on the clean up crew?
AYE!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-free-dominion-against-the-hrcs/signatures.html
Sign this petition on behalf of Styen. You don’t have to Canadian, civilised society must send a clear strong message to those who wish to oppress freedoms in our culture.
Our country folks, not thiers…. yet
I wish I could say, never, but we’d have to stop this nonsense now!