[rdww]

Glad to see this loser catching flak, but I wish it weren't under Canada's so-called "hate" speech laws. These are a shame to any liberal democracy. Dig the cases tried under this law so far at the bottom, especially the newspeak bit about a "perp" "required to perform more than 300 hours of voluntary community service."

[mgc1122]

She is typical of the hate filled anti-American left who probably (can't say for sure) were in favor of such draconian laws in the first place. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

And I hope Canada prosecutes her sorry a*s to the fullest extent of the law.

[father_elijah]

Don't like the hate speech law, but I do like the idea of Sunera Thobani being fingered. She will always be "Professor Sunera Thobani, once accused of hate speech" whether or not she is ever convicted.

[sailor4321]

Excellent! The "hate crime" chicken has come home to roost!

Hate crimes are, after all, really just thought crimes. Now maybe the left will understand....

[Marduk]

I don't believe in hate crimes laws but its good to see the left getting a little of its own medicine.

"These are a shame to any liberal democracy"

They are not the shame of a liberal democracy. They are a sign that we actuallyt live in a dictatorship, a dictatorship with the facade of democracy.

"In 1982, Alberta public high school teacher Jim Keegstra was fired for teaching students that the Holocaust -- where millions of Jews died in Nazi concentration camps -- was a fabrication of a "Jewish conspiracy" that wanted to destroy Christianity. The courts later convicted Keegstra of promoting hatred and ordered him to do 200 hours of community service work. "

I wonder why it's illegal to deny the Jewish holocaust but its perfectly legal to deny the Soviet murder of tens of millions of Christians, Israeli war crimes, Allied war crimes, the Armenian genocide, and the existence of God. Why is it that that it's illegal to deny crimes against Jews but perfectly legal to deny crimes committed against anybody else? There must be a reason for this double standard.

[Map Kernow]

I would be glad to see some other way to discomfit this racist witch Thobani, because 1) "hate crime" laws are inherently anti-democratic, no matter how applied; and 2) despite pious disclaimers to the contrary, these "hate crime" laws weren't meant for ethnic categories like Thobani anyway, and there almost certainly won't be sustained institutional support for her prosecution.

[elephantlips]

The "Pandora's Box" has been opened! As with all things liberal, it eventually comes back to bite them in the butt. After all, hate crimes are only perpetrated by conservatives, especially religious conservatives. I would like to wonder if they will ever learn but that is the greatest fantasy of all.

[IowaHawk]

Hoist by the proverbial petard.

It was academic nutjobs like Thobani who originally pushed for Canada's Orwellian "hate crime" law, helped by high profile American feminist mullahs like Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin.

I'll propose a deal:

(1) Drop charges, repeal the hate crime law, and fire Thobani from her ridiculous faculty position at UBC. She can do something more suited to her talents, like stuffing falafels at Tabouli Palace.

(2) If she doesn't agree to (1), sentence her to 300 hours of community service as a floor mopper at a VFW hall.

[Phantom Lord]

I remember FederalReview.com questioning if she would be prosecuted under Canada's strict hate speech laws. Seems they were ahead of the curve.

[BruceS]

Wasn't this hate crimes law also used against Dr. Laura when she factually said that homosexuals were (something to the effect of) mistakes of nature? It seems to me that they told Canadian broadcasters that they would have to do her broadcasts on a delayed basis so they could edit out any "hate speech."

I think hate crimes laws are unConstitutional - they allow either prosecution or longer sentences based on what someone believes. However, as long as we have to put up with them, let's get the left with them, until they realize just how undemocratic such laws are.

[JAWs]

She may be right that it's 'pure harassment' but isn't that the point of those laws?

BTW, the reports of irony's death are cleary exagerated!