Ezra Levant is not alone in Canada. There are a number of other Hero's who are likewise battling the forces of Orwellian evil. Mark Steyn is under attack by the Canadian Islamic Congress for having had the temerity to write things that the CIC found unflattering. Mark Steyn and the Magazine, Macleans, that published his article is under attack by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the same Stalinist shits that are harassing Ezra Levant. “Publisher Kenneth Whyte said he would rather go bankrupt than have the CIC set the terms for what the magazine publishes.”
The West needs to confront both the Islamist and the Stalinist that facilitate them. Both are enemies of freedom. Both must be defeated.
That threat that is Islam is beginning to be made plain to the West. The West must stand up to it.
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THOUGHT POLICE?
The idea a magazine should have to defend its writings to a government body has some critics warning of Soviet-style thought police and urging the commissions to get out of the business of regulating speech and expression.
Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said he fought to create human rights commissions "to deal with "discriminatory deeds ... not discriminatory words."
"Nobody thought it would be used to censure freedom of expression," he said.
The Canadian human rights commission would not comment on the case but said it was authorized by Parliament to investigate what it calls hate speech.
Freedom of expression is guaranteed in Canada's constitution, but laws have been enacted that restrict hate speech. In December, an Alberta human rights panel ruled that a local pastor broke a human rights law by writing letters to the editor urging citizens to stand up against what he described as militant homosexuality.
CBC commentator Rex Murphy said Maclean's should not have to defend itself for starting debate and stirring thought.
"Is every touchy, or agenda-driven sensibility now free to call upon the offices of the state and ... embroil them in 'justifying' their right to write and broadcast as they see fit?" he asked on CBC's flagship news program, The National.
Steyn said the CIC and law students acting on its behalf aimed to shut down debate by making it more trouble than it's worth for editors to run pieces on controversial topics.
But he added, "In using quasi-judicial coercion to squash debate, they make one of the central points of my argument -- that a proportion of Islam is inimical to Western traditions of freedom -- more eloquently than I ever could."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080106/wl_canada_nm/canada_muslims_press_col;_ylt=AmE45iNfaARWks7YUiBByoJvaA8F
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