Maclean's wins 'hate speech' human rights challenge in B.C.

National Post ^ | Friday, October 10, 2008 | Joseph Brean

[Forgiven_Sinner]

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled today that a controversial article about Islam in Maclean's magazine did not violate the province's hate speech law.

In acquitting the magazine, the Tribunal ruled that the article, an excerpt from Mark Steyn's book America Alone in which he describes the demographic and ideological dangers posed by a growing Muslim population in the West, was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Steyn is the first one to win aquittal from the Tribune of hate speech in Canada.

[bitterdfwrepub]

And do the winners get attorney fees for having to defend against this claptrap?

[Drango]

Won? Perhaps in a legal sense, but they were dragged through hell by a kangaroo court, aka star chamber and spent thousands of dollars defending themselves against brown shirts. Shame on Canada.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this.

[EDINVA]

He should never have been dragged thru this kangaroo court, but glad he won

[border bud]

Yay!!!!! So glad they won! Maybe there’s hope for us Canadians after all!

[goldstategop]

Its NOT a victory. The kangaroo courts can pass judgment on what you say. That's more offensive than their pseudo acquittal, given only because Mark Steyn was too prominent to punish. But if you're a little guy, you still get the full dose of their totalitarian thuggery and then some.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Anti-Bubba182]

If he was not a famous author with a lot of support this would be different.

[tioga]

Steyn needs to use his fame to end these kangaroo courts.

[Anti-Bubba182]

He has done a lot to shine a light on them, but with Obama
looking more likely as the next Potus this kind of thing could be in the US.

[tioga]

Obama already has his Truth Squads operating in Missouri.......

[americanophile]

"British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal"

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis"

[Anti-Bubba182]

A harbinger of things to come.....