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Friday, 27 June 2008
On Thursday, the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission (very quietly) dismissed the Canadian Islamic Congress complaint against Maclean's re America Alone - and without even giving the Socks the consolation of an Ontario-style drive-by verdict. The decision of the Jennifer Lynch mob includes the following:
* The Steyn article discusses changing global demographics and other factors that the author describes as contributing to an eventual ascendancy of Muslims in the 'developed world', a prospect that the author fears for various reasons described in the article. The writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Overall, however, the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature as defined by the Supreme Court in the Taylor decision. Considering the purpose and scope of section 13 (1), and taking into account that an interpretation of s. 13 (1) must be consistent with the minimal impairment of free speech, there is no reasonable basis in the evidence to warrant the appointment of a Tribunal.
For these reasons, this complaint is dismissed. *
Here's the official reaction from Maclean's. And Faisal Joseph, lawyer to the CIC and Mohamed Elmasry's vicar on earth, is not happy. He accuses the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission of caving in to "inappropriate political pressure". macleans.ca
We now await the decision from the pseudo-judges of the British Columbia tribunal.
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