Posted on 01/14/2008 9:44:45 PM PST by Aristotelian
Plenty of other authors and counterterrorism experts are being sued by Islamists to shut them up.
Award-winning author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian Human Rights Commissions on vague allegations of "subject[ing] Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt" and being "flagrantly Islamophobic" after Maclean's magazine published an excerpt from his book, America Alone.
The public inquisition of Steyn has triggered outrage among Canadians and Americans who value free speech, but it should not come as a surprise. Steyn's predicament is just the latest salvo in a campaign of legal actions designed to punish and silence the voices of anyone who speaks out against Islamism, Islamic terrorism, or its sources of financing.
The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), which initiated the complaint against Steyn, has previously tried unsuccessfully to sue publications it disagrees with, including Canada's National Post. The not-for-profit organization's president, Mohamed Elmasry, once labeled every adult Jew in Israel a legitimate target for terrorists and is in the habit of accusing his opponents of anti-Islamism -- a charge that is now apparently an actionable claim in Canada. In 2006, after Elmasry publicly accused a spokesman for the Muslim Canadian Congress of being anti-Islamic, the spokesman reportedly resigned amidst fears for his personal safety.
The Islamist movement has two wings -- one violent and one lawful -- which operate apart but often reinforce each other. While the violent arm attempts to silence speech by burning cars when cartoons of Mohammed are published, the lawful arm is maneuvering within Western legal systems.
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Free Speech Ping
We let this continue and we will all loose our individual rights...This is a war on a par with the WOT...
But I fear we will not wake up in time
I enjoyed Steyn's America Alone; it is an extension of Melanie Phillips' Londonistan and Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept. All three--and Walid Phares' Future Jihad--indicate intimidation is a standard tool of islamic jihad.
Jihadists are using Orwellian thought crime law coupled with multiculturalism victimology to cry race at every exposure of the true jihadist agenda.
It is a scary thing.
This is a time of peril unlike the west has ever seen before. Because it is from within and more wisespread than Nazism. It is a propaganda war. Right not, we are losing the propaganda war.
They are hosers of the first sort.
The way to combat this is to use the same method against Muslims as was used against polygamous Mormons: that their religion is unconstitutional.
A major pillar of Islam if the right to kill.
Definitely a no-no in the United States. Honor killings, apostate killings, dhimmi killings - all violate our Constitution.
And we make all these Islamic groups address this issue. If they don’t want to change, then we declare them illegal and run their buts out of the U.S.A.
Of course we can do it! We made the Mormon establishment change, we can make Muslims here change.
I sure hope it causes problems. Crisis management! That is the only way to solve problems at times.
America Alone was good. I thought it more an extension of Pat Buchanan’s “Death of the West” than any other book. I remarked at the time I read “Death of the West” that if it had been written by anyone other than Pat it would have been one of the notable books of the year.
Mark’s book combined the demographic insights of Buchanan’s with the cultural insights of Phillips or Oriana Fallaci.
Good God - you had to stretch for that one.
Despicable
Here is a fascinating blog where Ezra Lavant, the editor of the Canadian conservative magaizne “The Western Standard” defends himself in a hearing with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
It is fascinating reading / watching as he answers boldly the questions from the commissioner.
Scary as can be. We need to wake up.
Thanks Anti-Bubba182.
Multiculturalism makes Christian capitalism (and heterosexual monogamy) a crime, while prohibiting criticism of minority culture.
Abdullah kept Bush up late--why does Bush look for allies amongst the salafist wahabist regime which continues to trade with Iran.
Another book in the series is Tony Blankley's The West's Last Chance.
The first step is admitting the problem.
“...despicable...”
Oh, really?
Something not true about what he said?
I’ve read Steyn’s excellent book.
Seems like he may have understated the threat, though, given what’s happened to him.
Western civilization is committing suicide.
btt
No, not my idea. It was the idea of someone else.
ORSON SCOTT CARD: CIVILIZED RELIGION
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921256/posts
We’re going to have to ban I-slam sooner or later; my vote is for sooner....
In Finland a fellow who posted news articles and let readers comment has been fined E850 and orderd to shut down his website for 'creating hostility towards a group'. The blog was critical of 'multiculturalism'.
In England a fellow who has done the same kind of publishing - new stories with reader opinion focused on issues around muslim immigration in England - faces a criminal charge that carries a multi-year sentence. As he says "more time than the average rapist gets". He is still living outside of England, but will eventually have to return to face the charge. He goes by the name of "Lionheart" which seems fitting.
Web blogger faces 'racial incitement' arrest
There are some others I can't find the link to right now.
Steyn is not alone, but he is the best known and therefore the poster child for the budding crackdown of the thought police in the socialist western nations.
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