Allah sews socks in Hell...
"YOU IGNORANT MAN THE MARCH MAY BE CANCELLED FOR NOW BUT THE SHARIAH WILL BE IMPLEMENTED SOON.
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RomneyCare Advocate Wins Florida GOP Primary
6 minutes ago
Against the lies and the bullying of the objectively pro-fascist "left,"
Read the rest at Terry Glavins, added bonus - a great video.
Related: Nonie Darwish at U of T, Nov 4th, and it's Free;) 
George Jonas mocks Moon's CHRC Apologia
"When Canada's statist left found it had bitten off more than it could chew last year, and could end up choking on it (as some think it ought to), the CHRC retained Professor Moon to organize an orderly disgorgement.
He did."
Faisal Joseph CIC Legal Titan back in the news
Keep an eye on this one, Faisal is taking the London police department to the cleaners Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
Why this reluctance to set limits? Fatah says it's not because Canadians are tolerant. It's because we're stupid.
Polygamy. I'm surprised no one has asked the CHRC for its stamp of approval to date.
Read more...Dear Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste
As a native of Quebec please hear me out; F&ck Off lest we decide to sell La Belle Province to the Mexicans.
Read more...Notes from the Resistance...
While some Canadian proponents of state thought control--Jennifer, Richard, Bernie etc.--were defending their warped notions about the need to “balance” free speech with offensive speech as a means of sparing “vulnerable” people’s precious feelings (“feelings” and not freedom being these proponents’ be-all and end-all), I was off to Washington to attend the International Legal Conference on Freedom of Speech & Religion.
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More on the conference at 5FeetofFury - Islamophobia Machine!
Ahem indeed
While the practice of using CIs is fraught with peril - it is in this country too - it is also often the only way for investigators to penetrate such groups, especially since, ahem, so few within the broader Muslim community ever appear to see anything awry.
Ahem.
AB HUMAN RIGHTS “KANGAROO COURT” A THREAT TO SMALL NEWSPAPERS
Just about every time I craft a column it could be argued I subject some poor soul, sometimes more than one, to “contempt” (though, in my defence, not “hatred”). Which means I’ve contravened Section 3 of the Alberta Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act.
Probably many, many times.
Scary Halloween Tales For Conservatives
These Commissions, the result of a bizarre and unholy experiment which stitched together unrestrained state power with mindless political correctness, have an insatiable lust to destroy free speech
Ahhhwooooooooo!
"Multicultural Gamble" ? - How's that workin out Max?
I see Haroon Siddiqui has hauled out another shopworn apologist for Multicult, one Max Yalden, a typical Human Rights Apparatchik who arrogantly pronounces "Canadians have pulled off their `multicultural gamble' more effectively than one might have anticipated."
Here's the thing Max, your little "gamble" was nothing more than a Liberal vote buying scam, a divisive,racist gambit imposed on the unwilling backs of Canadian citizens.
Have a look here, here and here, Max for how well your little experiment is working out- and that's just this week. By the way Max, I don't ever recall being asked permission for you and your cronies to gamble with my future.
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"Even Pierre Trudeau, the key architect of multiculturalism, regretted how multiculturalism had been warped to emphasize an immigrant's identification with his country or culture of origin rather than his assimilation of a Canadian identity. At a private luncheon with MPs in the mid-1990s, Trudeau was asked whether multiculturalism had developed the way he hoped. He replied: "No, this is not what I wanted."
3 Ontario men sought in connection with Mad Mullah Shot in Dearborn Michigan
"The Canadians being sought in connection with the incident and facing charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes are: Mujahid Carswell, 30, also known as Mujahid Abdullah; Mohammad Alsahi, 33, also known as Mohammad Palestine and Yassir Ali Khan, 30."
Thank you Mr. Trudeau for the gift of Multiculturalism. I trust you are very warm where you are, or should be.
Ezra on how far we've come
Ezra offers up his opinion on how the campaign to repeal Section 13 (1) has fared so far. Much has been accomplished I would agree with many miles yet to go. Lynch was let off far too easily during the Justice Committee hearing, too many unprepared MP's allowed her to bloviate boilerplate & half truths in reponse.
A second appearance by Jennifer is needed.
Well Gee B'nai Brith there's always the CHRC isn't there?
Jewish Tribune:Imam’s ‘troubling messaging’ called ‘incitement to hate’
Ooops sorry, I forgot; Jennifer Lynch & the CHRC have determined that Muslims calling for the death of Gays, "Homosexuals and lesbians should be "exterminated in this life" and that Jews "spread corruption and chaos on earth", and of Christians & Infidels that "sending our sons and daughters to the schools of the Infidels has devastating effects on their beliefs, their behavior and their character. For the children of Infidels are the most pervert children. At a very early age, they adopt the behavior of their parents " is just fine with them.
Well looks like B'nai Brith is outta luck I'd say, since the CHRC decided to give the Islamists a "Get Outta Jail Free Card". The CHRC has declared Islamist"victimhood" superior to all others and therefore the malicious mullah's win the use of the CHRC as their enforcer under Section 13 (1). I guess this is an example of that"matrix of rights" stuff Jenny made up in action.
But where can B'nai Brith turn to? What about the Ontario Human Rights Commission? Oops again! Tarek Fatah informs us the OHRC is already co-opted by Islamists: "if you're scratching your heads, reading the outrageous attacks on Maclean's magazine by Barbara Hall, ... let me share with you the news that the Ontario Human Rights Commission is itself infiltrated by Islamists, and I say that on the record. One of its commissioners ... is an admirer of Ayatollah Khomeini and has close links to the Canadian Islamic Congress."
Geez B'nai Brith are you and the Canadian Jewish Congress sure this whole "hate speech" Section 13 (1) thing is still a good idea?
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Say isn't the Canadian Islamic Congress on side with B'Nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress in their blind support of Section 13 (1)? Why yes they are, will wonders never cease, strange bedfellows indeed, I do hope the CIC are invited to testify before the Justice Committee hearings on Section 13 (1).
As I have stated previously the advocacy for Section 13(1) by B'nai Brith, the CIC and the CJC has nothing to do with "hate speech", but rather it is a battle to control political debate by opposing sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
I am saddened to see that the Canadian Islamic Congress and the Canadian Arab Federation were not invited to today's session. Their presence, comic relief aside, would highlight the perverse nature of Section 13 (1)'s support base which, other than the human rights cult itself, is limited to a few special interest groups whose true goal I suspect is to seek a means to further political agendas and specifically control debate on the middle east. For the CIC & CAF Section 13 (1) fits nicely with the Islamist campaign to institute "defamation of religion" as a sort of global blasphemy law. The CJC and B'nai Brith simply represent the other side of this front in the Arab Israeli conflict, each group hoping to enforce the law in accordance to its will and agenda, an engagement that is being fought by proxy via Section 13 (1).
Pity that the rights of all Canadians may well be sacrificed to satiate the Gods of Political Correctness and the appetites of craven politicians.
Jennifer Lynch: Allow me to obfuscate for you
Jennifer Lynch went before the Justice Committee to defend Section 13, and didn’t meet up with much opposition from the unprepared and weak-kneed politicians.
Read more...The ABCs of fighting for free speech
"It was a motley party from the beginning. A confusing mess of die-hard social conservatives and liberals (not to mention libertarians), Jews and Muslims, gay rights activists and priests and pastors who had dedicated their lives to opposing gay rights activists. They were attacking the inaptly named Canadian Human Rights Commissions and most specifically hate speech laws.
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No bookie would have given this collection, held together with as much duct tape and Tim Horton’s coffee as anything else, better than very long odds on getting the Human Rights Commissions to acknowledge their existence, much less anything more
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But this time it was different"
Rebekah Hebbert blogs at MissMarprelate.blogspot.com.
Related: CHRT ruling in RCMP Cadet case overturned
"A finding of discrimination must require more than just a complainant's own perception that he has been identified as different," Federal Court Judge Russel Zinn wrote.
"Canadian Citizen" arrested in plot to kill Fleming Rose of Motoon's fame
"Mr Headley is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the US, which carries a life sentence.
While in Denmark he allegedly posed as a potential advertiser on behalf of a Chicago business, First World Immigration Services, run by Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Court papers indicate that Mr Headley and Mr Rana, 48, a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen, who is reported to be a former Pakistani army captain, went to the same military school in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan."
Ain't multiculturalism grand?
The slogan reads, "I am Muhammad and nobody dares print me!"
Jennifer Lynch's "I'm ready for my close-up just don't ask me any hard questions" moment
Mom had a slight set back entailing hospitalization so blogging will be light but here's links.
Update: Jenny has just posted the full text of her remarks before the Justice Committee, Deb Gyapong gives Jenny a good fisking here. As noted yesterday Ezra's information was not translated in time to reach the committee members, let's hope both he and Mark Steyn are invited back by the Justice Committee.
Ezra Levant, Jay Currie, and Ferreras J live blogged the session as did Miss Marpelate, much follow up is offered. The Interim weighed in.
Mark Steyn on the Censor Speaks. Scary Fundamentalist weighs in as does Moose & Squirrel. The Lynch Mob has a good round up.
Videos of yesterdays performances: Mississauga Matt has captured our Censors "I'm ready for my Close-Up just don't ask me any hard questions" moment, damned if they didn't. See all of Jenny's clips here.
Moon and the CJC's contributions are here, thanks again Matt!
Don't forget Binks! - Canada's School Marm
I'll be back as soon as things have settled down with me Sainted Irish Mother, thanks to all who have offered their best wishes and prayers. She has stabilized and is resting comfortably, now we just wait for test results and confirmation of the Doctor's assumptions. It looks good at this point.
A Section 13 (1) Sausage In the Making
Update: We are informed that the clerk could not forward the information she received from Ezra Levant to the committee members. Even though the information was in her possession for some 18 days prior to today's session it was not possible to translate it in time.
Had it been business as usual today's Justice Committee hearing on Section 13 (1) would have provided the few wonks who might have cared with insight into how Special Interest Groups, Civil Servants and our Members of Parliament work behind the scenes to formulate policy affecting all Canadians. This assumes that today's hearing would have taken place at all, a doubtful proposition at best.
Today's session is special however and affords us an opportunity to witness all of these actors in the cold light of day, under circumstances they would have preferred to avoid if at all possible.
What do we have to look forward to? Jennifer Lynch of the CHRC, Mark Freiman and Bernie Farber of the CJC will present their justifications for the continued circumvention and erosion of Canadians fundamental right to Freedom of Speech and established criminal justice principles, notably due process. Richard Moon will hopefully expand on his expressed distaste for the "tone" of the public debate, otherwise known as democracy.
So expect the worst from them and even less of the Liberal and NDP committee members, after all Section 13 (1) was cynically born of the brokerage politics that hides behind the decayed mask of official multiculturalism and the need by politicians to be seen as "taking action" - otherwise known as vote buying. Section 13 (1) is legislation that brings visions of votes dancing through the heads of short sighted politicians giddy with the belief that minorities are homogeneous voting blocs. This will likely remain the case for our out of touch politicos who imagine advocacy groups are always representative of their alleged constituencies best interests and despite the fact that the campaign to rid Canada of Section 13 (1) has proven to be as non-partisan and grassroots an effort as any I have witnessed, garnering overwhelming public and institutional support.
I am saddened to see that the Canadian Islamic Congress and the Canadian Arab Federation were not invited to today's session. Their presence, comic relief aside, would highlight the perverse nature of Section 13 (1)'s support base which, other than the human rights cult itself, is limited to a few special interest groups whose true goal I suspect is to seek a means to further political agendas and specifically control debate on the middle east. For the CIC & CAF Section 13 (1) fits nicely with the Islamist campaign to institute "defamation of religion" as a sort of global blasphemy law. The CJC and B'nai Brith simply represent the other side of this front in the Arab Israeli conflict, each group hoping to enforce the law in accordance to its will and agenda, an engagement that is being fought by proxy via Section 13 (1).
Pity that the rights of all Canadians may well be sacrificed to satiate the Gods of Political Correctness and the appetites of craven politicians.
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One line of questioning I would love to see asked of Ms. Lynch relates to the CHRC's policy on Investigations which states of investigators that "In addition, they are impartial and do not represent either of the parties involved in the complaint."
Now that would make for an interesting exchange, just imagine the possibilities.
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Today's session will be broadcast live on CPAC commencing at 3:30 pm.
Poison Control Advisory:
Don't miss today's session, Jennifer Lynch is first up but caution is advised, you'll need this antidote to make it through the day - The Official Jennifer Lynch Drinking Game.
Square Mile Wife Covers London "Stop the War" Protest
Worth the visit - great pics from an ex-pat Canuck. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
This is not SMW;)
Ezra Levant says Richard Moon made of mouldy cheese
Ezra has posted his rebuttal to Moon's latest apologia for the CHRC.
My thoughts - Moon is either uninformed, unable or unwilling to address serious matters of corruption and conflict of interest at the CHRC as uncovered from official transcript testimony made under oath by CHRC staff themselves. If Moon is unwilling to address these matters then he himself is as guilty of the "Spin" he accuses others of.
My comments at the National Post:
"Mr. Moon when an Ex-CHRC employee is still granted access to CHRC premises and in fact is allowed to instruct a CHRC investigator on the conduct of a case he himself inititated, well I call that corruption, as in "the CHRC is a corrupt organization."
Either you do as well Mr. Moon and are thus every bit as guilty of the "Spin" you accuse others of or your standards are perhaps simply too elastic for anyone to grant you consideration as a reliable source.
So which is it?"
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"By the way Mr. Moon the statements I made earlier regarding the corruption of the CHRC are not mere allegations, the details of this uncomfortably cozy relationship - (uncomfortable to the public if not to a lawyer of your stripe that is), that existed between the Ex-CHRC employee and CHRC staff are contained in official CHRT transcript testimony. This is just one of multiple instances of abuse by the CHRC that have been uncovered Mr. Moon, all of them supported by transcript testimony.
You may read the official transcript here http://tinyurl.com/ygwev6k
I understand, unless memory fails, that the original mandate of your report for the CHRC did not include an investigation of the allegations of corruption that have swirled around the commisson. It may be that your Spin on matters is simply a case of being uninformed, lazy or willfully blind. You can answer that.
I suggest to you Sir that you set aside aside your obvious distaste for the CHRC's critics, and if possible also your evident elitist bigotry, and avail yourself of an opportunity to do so. You owe the public this responsibility if you are to have any credibility.
As a closing aside, you state, "Searching neo-Nazi websites for hate speech and engaging with individuals on those sites to determine their identity involves ethical challenges that should not be dealt with by private citizens"
You should have added nor by dimwitted CHRC bureaucrats, just ask Dean and Serenity. Do a google search on Serenity and the CHRC Mr. Moon, you owe it, both to yourself and all of us. Or better yet just ask Ezra;) "
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Upperdate: Mark Steyn on the Spin of Dubious Moonlight
Shame on Professor Moon for his defence of the racket. He's being far more "false" and "misleading" on the point than anything Ezra and I have said. And, for a statist blowhard who huffs and puffs about how "malicious" the critics of the CHRC are, you're getting a politer response than you deserve. Straighten up and fly right, daddy-o.
Update: Scaramouche weighs in.
Jennifer "J-Ly" Lynch Testifies Monday
All the usual suspects will be there, Moon, Farber & Ex-CHRC Hack and current CJC Prez Mark "No Conflict Here" Freiman included.
This will be the most one sided censorfest celebration yet. I can't wait to see the depths Liberal Committee members will sink to, this will be ethnic pandering at its most appalling. Get ready to see how the sausage is made.CPAC will be carrying this live, definitely not for those of weak stomach.
Update: A preview of Richard Moon's submission
"Searching neo-Nazi websites for hate speech and engaging with individuals on those sites to determine their identity involves ethical challenges that should not be dealt with by private citizens"
Nor by dimwitted bureaucrats he should add, just ask Dean and Serenity.
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Update 2: Ezra Levant says Moon made of Mouldy Cheese
My two cents: Mr. Moon when an Ex-CHRC employee is still granted access to CHRC premises and in fact is allowed to instruct a CHRC investigator on the conduct of a case he himself inititated, well I call that corruption, as in "the CHRC is a corrupt organization."
Either you do as well Mr. Moon and are thus every bit as guilty of the "Spin" you accuse others of or your standards are perhaps simply too elastic for anyone to grant you consideration as a reliable source.
So which is it?
Calgary readers: apologetics conference and debate begins Friday
From Wintery Knight: Here’s the schedule from the Faith Beyond Belief web site. This conference was organized by Jose Ruba, the same pro-life debater who has been shouted down at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
The debate is on Saturday at 7 PM at the University of Calgary, against a University of Calgary philosophy professor, who has 3 degrees, including a PhD, from Oxford University. The topic is “Do Objective Moral Truths Exist?”.
Brian Lilley: The right to wear a burka
I'll admit that passing by women covered from head to toe and not being able to see their eyes does make me uneasy at times. For me this is not just theoretical either, shopping in my part of Ottawa does put me in contact with women who sport the hijab, the niqab and yes, I've even seen a burka or two.
Read more...The Big Chill
The problem for all these countries trying to feel their way forward on policies like hate speech, Nazir-Ali said, is that they have "thin values, not thick values." True liberty, equality, and the dignity of the human person are lost to the nebulous swirl of tolerance, he believes. British policies to accommodate each special group that enters the country, he says, send the message: "We don't know who we are, we don't know who you are, let's live together separately."
Read more...Toronto General Hospital Follow Up - Sometimes you really can fight "city hall"
As many of you will be aware me Sainted Irish Mother recently underwent a very unfortunate experience at Toronto General Hospital's ER. I wrote about that incident originally here and a condensed version appeared in the National Post's Full Comment Section here.
I would like to personally thank all who commented and offered their prayers and wishes for her speedy recovery. Mom is recovering nicely from her heart attack and the complications that ensued. We are grateful that she is still with us. Mom has also moved in with us solely because we thought it novel to have someone critique our housekeeping on a full time basis;)
Of further note is that my article was brought to the attention of Toronto General. They initiated contact and I have now had several conversations with Ms. Sharon Rogers, Director of Patient Relations at the University Health Network of which Toronto General is part. Informally Ms. Rogers and I examined the chain of events outlined in my post, yesterday she got back to me with her findings and resolution.
The short version is, as I am happy to report, that TGH will be implementing a new ER policy that will force "ownership" of a patients treatment on the department that initially dealt with them. This policy will obviate the type of communication breakdown that occurred in Mom's case.
Furthermore the Agency Nurses on duty that evening will no longer be engaged by Toronto General Hospital.
I would like to extend my thanks & appreciation to both Ms. Rogers and Toronto General Hospital for acting so decisively in this matter. Sometimes you really can fight "city hall".
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PS. Ms Rogers asks that I invite the public to contact her directly should anyone else wish to discuss their concerns with TGH.
Your Chance to Laugh At Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal In Public
I'm gonna be there: It's Madcap Muslima Madness Day at Queens Park, special guest is everyone's favourite douchebag , Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal - Any woman who tries to use us to forward her god-hating and/or male-reviling agenda is only trying to prostitute us like a filthy pimp!
Update: A whois search on the domain http://www.niqaabis.com/ reveals it is registered to none other than Qayyum Abdul Jamal, Cheryfa's darling husband and Poster Boy for immigration reform.
H/T reader Sanwin
We cannot go on this way
Bundesbank director Thilo Sarrazin made some observations about immigration and integration that many of his countrymen agreed with, many would have thought to be blindingly obvious. For his trouble he is likely to be charged with "incitement to racial hatred"...
Read more...Would you like to be my neighbor? Your Friendly Neighborhood Kuffar Hatin Imam
Hey Torontonians meet your neighbor! Imam Saed Rageah of the Abu Huraira Centre
Toronto imam preaching hate instead of harmony - National Post
"...the imam asks Allah to “damn” Christians and Jews.
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“The cleric’s ritual prayer asking for the defeat of Christians and Jews and the victory of Islam is not unique,” Mr. Fatah said
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Throughout the 35-minute speech he uses the word “kuffar” to describe non-Muslims."
Stupidest Conservative Lesbian Ever
But not all Conservatives feel the need to abolish Section 13. Lesbian Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth feels that it should be retained.
“The Canadian Human Rights Act does include women, but the Criminal Code does not,” says Ruth. “So if we lose Section 13, there’s no protection for hatred against women anywhere.”
Cheezus.
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What's a Lesbian Conservative? She brings a U-Haul on the 3rd date.
Human rights commissioner attacks Islam (again)
Well I wonder why?
"As for girls and school then this is a decision that their parents should make. Does the human rights commission propose that they be physically forced to go to school even if they and their parents do not want this? Islam makes clear that all girls should receive a basic education and a more thorough education in Islam. It does not state that they must be made to go to schools, especially when those schools contain all kinds of haram. If the human rights commission where really concerned about this then why not push for schools which are completely segregated and where the pupils can practice their Islam in full and not be exposed to haram things such as music and dancing."
Glad I don't live in the Maldives. But I would like to swap our HRC for theirs;)
Aw Crap:( We were hopin to hear Iggy...
...repudiate everything good he ever had to say about Free Speech, now he's gone and cancelled.
Read more...Support Israel Buy A Bulldozer
Pancake a "Teacher for Palestine" while you're at it;)
"The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has investments in:
Cement Roadstone Holdings
Lockheed Martin
Siemens
MDA
Finning International
Each of these companies play a role in Israeli apartheid, from partnering with a company that produces cement used in the construction of the Apartheid Wall, to distributing Caterpillar's D9 bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes.
It's time for divestment. Come learn more at a panel discussion hosted by Teachers for Palestine."
H/T My mysterious reader with JDL connections;)
It’s Show Time! Free Speech and Canadian “human rights” commissions
Barry Cooper, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary
"They aspire to become more than a thought or speech police; they seek to be an emotion police.
In order to achieve these ambitions, members of the CHRC have joined neo-Nazi websites and posted messages on them in the hopes of provoking some dim-witted hatemonger to post something equally vile. Then one of their friends or even colleagues would be able to lodge a complaint.
In a real court (and to common sense) this is entrapment by an agent provocateur. In the kangaroo courts of Canada’s human rights commissions, it’s standard operating procedure."
Two New Politically Incorrect Books From Mantua
Tolerism- The Ideology Revealed by Howard Rotberg,
"Rotberg argues that the philosophical idea of toleration has formed the basis of an unhealthy degree of tolerance without limits, and an excessive leniency towards those who represent the most intolerant and illiberal societies. He calls this ideology Tolerism."
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Hear, O Israel from David Solway
"The spectacle we are observing today—the reluctance to deal adequately with terrorism, the political contriving against our own best interests, the serpentine efforts to exculpate the enemy, the relativizing of moral principle, the Left’s betrayal of its own liberal culture, the renewed "treason of the intellectuals," and especially the mounting acerbity toward Jews in the court of public opinion and the isolation of Israel as a pariah state—is merely the modern instantiation of this long offensive against our very survival." - Hear, O Israel
Mantua 2009 Brochure Revised (2)[1]
STOP THE WAR! Teach-In on Afghanistan and the Anti-War Struggle - ANSWER L.A.
Content Warning: Much Pseudo-Leftist Stupidity Ahead
Read more...Racist Homophobic College Bans Do-Rags, Sagging Pants, Cross-Dressing
"We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress a way we do not expect in Morehouse men"
H/T Freedom Through Truth
Human rights platitudes
"THE Left has a gift for using clever language to push its causes. The trick is to start with a literal truth, a platitude so steeped in emotion it tugs on the heartstrings of human nature, something that just about every sane person will agree on.
But what makes the use of a literal truth so seductive is the way it is used to hide a substantive untruth."
Do Read This.
The powerful online voice of jihad
Toronto Star - Shadowy cleric revered by disenchanted Muslim youths throughout West cited in Toronto 18 case.
Read more...Speaking of Iggy....and free speech
"When collective rights take precedence over individual freedoms -- as we see in countries where ideology shapes the collectivity, where race, ethnic origin, language, and religion shape the collectivity -- we see what can happen to the people who claim to live freely in such societies. When an individual citizen is not equal to all other citizens in the state, we are faced with a dictatorship, which arranges citizens in a hierarchy according to their beliefs . . ."
Guess which former Liberal Leader said that;)
If You Can't Kill Free Speech One Way--Try Another
'Unlike any previous action regarding speech in which the United States has participated, Obama did not set any of the routine boundaries which exempted America and its Constitution from the rules of the Commission. Obama echoes the words of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in that he doesn't consider free speech to be very important, and since it's a very American value, he doesn't much care for it.
In fact, I expect a "free speech apology tour" to be scheduled any time now. '
Shelshock has coverage of the Wildrose Alliance Convention
The CBC sent along a reporter as well I see.
Impunity Watch: Writers Challenge Section Thirteen of Canadian Human Rights Act
"Levant and Steyn pointed out that the truth is no defense to a Section Thirteen accusation. Even if all the facts of a published article are true, a person can still successfully bring an action against the writer of an article if it would expose persons to hatred or contempt. Levant and Steyn also pointed out that Section Thirteen serves as a source of financial gain for the privileged class who often bring suits for economic reasons."
Read more...That Giant Sucking Sound?
Your wealth, socialists and climate change.
Brian Lilley reports on Copenhagen - it's not about climate change.
More here: "How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand."
GEERT WILDERS IN UK DECLARES ISLAM A 'BAD RELIGION......!
Judging by the warm reception I can't imagine whatever possessed him to say such a thing?
Binkatrocious!
Binks with links. Scroll down for the German SS officer video - Uhm are we the Baddies?
Read more...Mohammed Elmasry: Media is full of Islamophobes
"Not only are present-day media organizations full of Islamophobes (which is bad enough); but an entire industry has emerged since 9/11 as part of the American “war on terror.”
This new industry sanctions, condones and promotes Islamophobia and pays Islamophobic writers, speakers, commentators and other self-styled “experts” handsomely for their books and articles, as well as giving them wide public platforms from which to express their views."
Ah go pound sand you whiny Islamofascist.
Canadian Centre for Policy Studies launches Free Speech petition
From: Joseph Ben-Ami
October 15, 2009
As you know, freedom of speech is an essential characteristic of a free society. In Canada, however, this freedom has been under attack in recent years under the pretext of protecting and promoting human rights. Laws that prohibit the free expression of opinion undermine the very foundations of a free and tolerant society and are, therefore, illegitimate and must be abolished.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Studies has just launched an online petition calling on lawmakers at all levels of government in Canada examine legislation within their jurisdiction intended to protect and promote human rights, and to remove those provisions that prohibit or otherwise limit the free and sincere expression of opinion.
Please take a minute to sign this petition yourself and email it to your friends and family for their signature as well. You can do so now by clicking on the following link or by cutting and pasting the url into your browser.You can also post the link to social networking sites like facebook or in any forum you regularly visit.
Let’s see how many signatures we can gather on this important issue.
Defend Free Speech In Canada
We the undersigned call on lawmakers at all levels of government in Canada to:
A) Examine all legislation within their jurisdiction intended to protect and promote human rights, and
B) To amend said legislation to remove those provisions that prohibit or otherwise limit the free and sincere expression of opinion.
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H/T No Apologies
Steyn asks what happened to the Old Iggy?
"...a blast of Professor Ignatieff:
“Collective rights without individual ones end up in tyranny. Moreover, rights inflation—the tendency to define anything desirable as a right—ends up eroding the legitimacy of a defensible core of rights . . . The right to freedom of speech is not, as the Marxist tradition maintained, a lapidary bourgeois luxury, but the precondition for having any other rights at all.”
Iggy isn't afraid to lead Canada, he's afraid to lead the Liberal party.
Caption Contest: Khurrum Awan- still stupid, still lying
The little Taqiyaa Twinky is still at it. "Maclean’s published another story by Steyn in April 2006 where he cited the Quran out of context and called Muslims “sheep-shaggers,” Awan said. "
Come up with a caption to for the following photo and win Big Prizes, or somethin!
Today's theology lesson brought to you by...
...Mullah Makeover Robert Heft, who runs something called Paradise 4 Ever, which despite the name is evidently not a massage parlour even if it is located in Rexdale On.
"The Jews have strayed by adulterating and denying the messages that were sent to them, killing prophets and above all having a perverse anthropomorphic belief in God, all of which removes them from God's true faith. The Christians have strayed the same way only they did not kill prophets, and more obviously their doctrine of Trinity is blatant disbelief of the first and for most commandment revealed to Moses (peace be upon him), namely the belief in one God and not to associate any partners with Him."
Allah knows best
Yes I'm old enough to remember when the strap...
was the feared instrument of school discipline...but
Read more...Reader mail?
I received the following e-mail from a "fan". It seemed "odd" at first glance and so I decided to run it by a few friends. The concensus returned is that, as initially suspected, this may well be a fishing expedition. I'll let you decide. Oh, we don't suspect the CHRC - for a change;)
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Dear Blazing Cat Fur,
Hi there, how are things going lately? I was a former occasional poster at jihadwatch, under name maxwell46&2; as a grad student I've been far too busy to post regularly but still check it on a daily basis. I've gotten a great education about not only Islam, but also about Middle Eastern history as taught before what Hugh aptly calls the "Great Inhibition", and about the cultures of the different racial groups in the Islamic World. Though I do not at all thing they;re correct on everything regarding the Muslim World, nonetheless I've learned a huge deal from Robert, Hugh and the other posters, including yourself.
Your site of course is one Robert Spencer links to, and looking through your site provided me with lots of additional info about thge current attempts by Islamists to subvert North American, violently and nonviolently. As a result, I had always wanted to know but never did get around to asking you. First off, where did you find out about Jihadwatch int he first place? I found it by accident; one day i was searching Iraq war stories, came across Jihadwatch from an article they posted randomly, clicked on it and have been visiting it daily since. Did yhou find out the same way, or from word of mouth?
Also, how has your general view of muslims as a people changed since Jihadwatch's tenure began. Spencer often insists Muslims should not be seen as a monolith and Islam should not either, and that he does not hate Islam but rather finds it fascinating, hence his years of studying it. Many posters at JW feel otherwise obviously-what about you? If you comne across, say, a Pakistani, Muslim Arab, Bangladeshi, Bosnian, Albanian, Indian Muslim, Iranian Shia or someone else who identifies him/herself as Muslim, whatr is your first reaction? Is it, what the hell are you thinking, why are you following this asinine cult? You give support to Al Qaeda and other terrorists simply by following Islam? Or is it more of an interest, as in, what exactly benevolent do they see in Islam and if they are good people, are they genuinely Muslim? And if not, what happens if they become so?
It's indeed interesting that out of the 1.2 billion Muslims-which we must face is a huge number, there are many very smart, upstanding people in this group who look at the Quran, Hadith and Sira and see genuine beauty, wisdom and tolerance in it. Do you think it's due to mental defficiency, actual brainwashing or self denial? Sijmply a radically different interpretation that sadly not enough Muslims follow? Or simply being severely misguided by Imams who may not understand as much as they think about Islamic texts? The best case scenario is that the interpretations of the Quran, as outlined in the blogging the Quran series on JW, are not the sole interpretatrion by Muslims.
Interested in and response you may have,
Sincerely,
Maxwell1313/Maxwell46&2
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PS: To the indivdual who has been searching my site for any and all references to Khaled Mouammar, drop me a line I'll be glad to help with your enquiry;)
From the Department of Nothing Better To Do...
At Costco today I purchased my usual supply of the evil weed. Something struck me as odd about today's transaction however. It wasn't the nanny curtains mandated by the nanny state; we have all gotten used to this silly intrusion. No today I learned the Nanny State has inserted itself into yet another segment of the purchase process.
Typically I would approach the wicket, and being a regular the Girls staffing the Tobacco Prison would have my order pulled and on the counter ready to scan faster than I could pull out my Costco card. No more will I know that simple pleasure. Today I noted that my order was pulled but placed on a table behind OZ's curtain. The clerk then scanned the items - behind the curtain. She seemed very concerned that the items remained hidden. But from who and why?
I asked her. "It's the law now, imagine and we live in Canada too".
Yes we do.
Ya know maybe that Marx guy was right....
Shariah Index debuts on TSX - prominent members of Shariah finance boards are enemies of Western civilization and endorse cruelty such as wife beating as well as violent jihad.
Read more...Oppose liberalization of euthanasia laws, says League
TORONTO, October 14, 2009 – The Catholic Civil Rights League today commented on reports that as many as 75 per cent of Quebec’s medical specialists would be favourable to the legalization of euthanasia in certain circumstances.
The survey, which did not address assisted suicide but did ask respondents’ views about euthanasia as an aspect of end of life care, found that most would accept some legalization of euthanasia even if they would not use it in their own practices.
Enhorabuena, Compañera Sanchez. Venceremos. Freedom Will Come.
The Cuban writer and dissenter Yoani Sanchez, whose brave work I have long admired, has won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for her web log Generacion Y. The prize is the oldest international award in journalism. It is given by Columbia University.
Yoani has been prohibited from traveling to New York to collect her honour.
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We will dance in the streets the day Castro dies, but more importantly we look forward to the major league BB-Q Meatriarchy will be hosting on that great day.
UP AGAINST THE WALL WHITEY! (You can get a degree in this stuff from U of T)
Courtesy of "The mostest racistist blog in Canada" RNC - you too can learn to hate Whitey.
From Racism & National Consciousness -As part of this upcoming conference at the University of Toronto, you are invited to a book launch:
The White Supremacist State: Eurocentrism, Imperialism, Colonialism, Racism by Dr. Arnold H. Itwaru, a senior lecturer in Carribean Studies at New College U of T.
Here's a video of the Good Doctor in action teaching us all that Whitey and Western Civilization are just pure evil, yea that's YOU Paleface!: Master Race Culture, White Supremacy, Liberal Democracy & The continuing colonization of the world.
Some quotes:
"The epidermalization of superiority is characterized by whiteness" , "By equality the white supremacists refer to themselves not us", "These are the societies that continue to take away the freedom of millions today", "The Canadian state uses phosphorus bombs in Afghanistan...the people of Canada think this is a mission of mercy"
(The Dr. starts at about the 5 minute mark, The Dr. also runs "Basics" a community newspaper)
Other conference highlights:
“Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration and Control in Canada” by Harsha Walia, Islamofascist Apologist.
Man a university degree is so worth worth it;)
Ending government censorship in Canada
"As of this summer, the CHRC is, officially, in agreement with these opponents and critics. Opponents and critics are now being invited to help in the search for better ways for government agencies to police expression.
We must refuse this invitation."
Mark Mercer
CBC comment lowlights on Free Speech
Following the Hitler Trip and the horrible experiences of the Jews, many left Europe and invested heavily into media and Hollywood.
Read more...So long Israel...
Arguments.
"There is alot of stuff available on the internet that was once unavailable, except for those willing to dig through a library. It can be packaged, activist fashion, puffed like a truthy media story, and fed to those willing to eat it. Questions that question the actual number of Jews fed to the ovens. Revelations about war atrocities. The Jews who escaped by buying their way out, and the Jews who worked for the National Socialists in the camps and thus survived (Kapos, the krauts called them, Kapos). There is much rich compost for the discerning activist seeking to prepare the Israeli’s for Masada the sequel, much as they prepared America for 9/11, the sequel to Pearl Harbor. No, the animus against Israel is deep, well-edumacated, and puffed in the media.
Why talk about if, and instead about how and when."
Beware the cultural wrecking ball
Preston Manning, Globe & Mail
And if a nation were to actually reduce huge portions of its centuries-old cultural heritage to a pile of rubble by means of the wrecking ball, by what possible conceit can those advocating such a course bring themselves to believe that whatever cultural values they would build in its place could survive or prosper for more than a generation?
Spell Missusiffy
"After a lifetime in the Hospitality Industry some things are second nature. In this staged photo op: The Missus Iffy has long straggly and greasy hair. Mr Iffy [that's Iffy, not Stiffy, though he's usually quite stiff looking] has greasy looking hair, coupled with a look of discomfort for being with the needy.
My place would have gotten at least a couple of health citations for such flagrant disregard for the local health laws."
Zafar Bangash - Canada's Goodwill Ambassador to Iran
Canada, Not an Imperialist? Think Again!
“Canada, not an imperialist? Think again!” that is what he started his speech with, that one should consider Canada as an imperialist too. Apparently, given the information that Canada is a U.S. follower, which is of course because of its vital economy-wise dependence on America, Canada seeks to attract America’s content.
This reflects itself when Canada, with its anti-Muslim hostility, helped the U.S. with military forces through Canadian Navy in America’s invasion of Afghanistan. Canada has also pursued a very pro-Israeili policy. Imam Zafar Bangash cited many critical instances of Canadian oppression on minorities especially Muslims."
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A little background on the islamist scumbag here.
Halloween Hijinks! Canadian Human Rights Tribunal conducts ghost tour of Portage la Prairie
The wheels of justice turn slowly and sometimes they just fall right off.
Despite repeated unsuccessful efforts to contact the parties involved and despite having received no confirmation from either the plaintiff or respondent that they could actually be bothered to attend the scheduled hearing the CHRT decided to pack its bags and junket out to Portage La Prairie anyway. Guess what? No one showed. Case dismissed.
Oh heck who cares, it's just your money.
What was the motive behind the CHRT's decision to convene the "Hearing no one could be bothered with"? A junket for a homesick prairie kommissar or just the opportunity to sample the good life in the "Paris" of Manitoba? Perhaps the promotional video on the municipal web site offers some clues, among other things to occupy your time in Portage you can "drive on a straight highway", "operate heavy farm machinery", or "get run over by freight trains" and that's just the first 30 seconds or so!
Shaudi reasoning?: Death-knell for the face-veil? Not so
From the Saudi Gazzette - I realized this, when horror-struck, I read the first reports of the incident involving the current head of Al-Azhar University at Cairo, Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi and his verbal abuse of a veiled girl student during a tour of her school in Nasr city, which subsequently made headlines all over the world earlier this week.
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See also: Pray for our sisters around the world
Good advice
Sound familiar? I'm very pro gay rights -- and rights for all people -- but I'm against "hate crime laws" which work out to be thought crimes laws. And isn't any murder a "hate crime"?
Read more...Human Rights Kommissars...the same the world over
I kinda liked what the head of Turkeys HRC had to say on freedom of the press but then there's that little matter of "child prisons" and I don't believe I've ever seen prison overcrowding described in so favourable a light... this guy has the HRC doublespeak down pat.
Read more...This Thanksgiving count your blessings...
Binks should be one of them.
Happy Thanksgiving.
WW ll Curiosity
While even the majority of "action" shots give the appearance they were staged propaganda ops, it is nonetheless rare to see colour photos of soviet forces during WW ll.
Salim Mansur: Born in blood
Excerpts from Islam's Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim, by Salim Mansur
The Koran's command about there being no coercion in religion was cast aside, and Islam in its Arabian environment came to be inseparable from the power and sweep of the sword.
CBC's The House: MP Brent Rathgeber & MP Ujjal Dosanj Discuss Section 13 (1)
Rathgeber Rocks and suppports the repeal of Section 13 (1).
Ujjal Dosanj, careful to maintain the LPC's grievance mongering, ethnic pandering street cred offers up a lot of confused nonsense and while supporting removal of the penalty provisions comes across as poorly informed and hence unconvincing.
Rathgebar runs circles around him. Head over to Dr. Roy's for a listen.
Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism
And then manage it, challenge it, and account for it
It's odd that this piece appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review. Do read the comments.
H/T reader MiniCapt.
The Winter Olympics - sham enough already
A pointless, wasteful and costly endeavor? Certainly. Now it appears that Charter rights are also part of the Bill.
Read more...Ezra Levant on Michael Coren - Can the Human Rights Commissions be reformed?
As if.
Thanks to Mississagua Matt.
H/T Black Kettle
Stop the rot to our right for free speech
Calgary Herald Editorial
What else would one call it? People accused of simply sticking up for their passionately held beliefs may be convicted and fined without even the usual defences afforded by the law, in tribunals where hearsay and conjecture may be admitted as damaging evidence. How much more diseased can it get, than this self-same government agency actively trying to entrap people whose views offend them?
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Related: Questionable conduct of CHRC
Whaddaya gotta do to win a "Peace Prize" these days?
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Terrific reaction round-up here.
Obama won what?
Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous
Related: Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood Okey Dokey.
A Khadrstrophy waiting to happen
Rosie Dimanno on Multiculturalisms Poster Family - The Khadrs
I love for the sake of Allah and I hate for his sake.”
After time served he'll be an NDP candidate in less than 3 years.
Read more...Why CBC is wrong fully covering Tarek Fatah as a muslim
as an Iranian Canadian Muslim I am offered while CBC intentionally covers MR. Fatah who is not Muslim as he so many people and his circle of friends are aware of it . them how he falsely representative an Muslim organization.
...as a Muslim we have enough problem due to lack of facility to educate our community gangs...
Related: if we can not educate our community and do not defend our community , then National post , the pro ISraeli paper will wrirte for our community .
I always get a kick outta this guy.
Welcome to the Harvard of the North....
Pro-Life activist's talk disrupted by mob at McGill U. VIDEO of protesters, claiming a university must be a "safe place", disrupting and eventually shutting down a closed-door presentation. --all this as police and campus security look on...
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Wintery Knight has a good roundup.
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Mark Mercer has a piece on an earlier disruption.
Dr. Roy has more.
Hallmarks of the Hate Squad: Did CHRC operatives write threatening hate letter to Michael Coren?
I dunno fer sure but this letter certainly bears all the hallmarks of the CHRC Hate Squad's black ops tactics. Rather than waste time filing an FOI request let's ask members of the CHRC Hate Squad directly, and be sure to say hi to Dean, Sandy, John and all the rest: jadewarr@yahoo.ca, jadewarrior@execulink.com, odensrevenge@gmail.com, hanoushi@yahoo.com
Here's mine: (NB: So far not a single e-mail address has bounced back)
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As an aside one might also advise a reluctant but unserene Canary, beware the ides of October.
Section 13(1) and Aspergers
Perhaps Section 13 could be struck down as discriminating on basis of a disability...
Read more...Bumped: Questions for Jennifer Lynch of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Section 13 (1)
Jay Currie has got the ball rolling. We are proposing to forward a list of reader submitted questions you would like to see the members of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights hearing on Section 13 (1) ask Jennifer Lynch during her scheduled appearance.
We hope to do this formally with say a top ten list of reader questions e-mailed to each committee member but I also recommend you contact the members individually.
As Flea suggests you should make your questions short and sweet and back them up with publicly available evidence. You may submit your questions at the blog of your choice, or e-mail me - blazingcatfur@gmail.com if you wish. Thank you.
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Here is the contact information for each member who attended yesterdays session, grouped by party affiliation, so you can frame your questions appropriately.
Conservatives:
Ed Fast - ed@edfast.ca , faste@parl.gc.ca
Daniel Petit - PetitD@parl.gc.ca
Rick Norlock - rick@ricknorlock.ca , Norlock.R@parl.gc.ca
Rob Moore - MooreR@parl.gc.ca
Stephen Woodworth - woodworth.s@parl.gc.ca
Brent Rathgeber - rathgb1@parl.gc.ca , rathgb0@parl.gc.ca
NDP:
Joe Comartin - ComarJ@parl.gc.ca
Bloc Quebecois
Serge Ménard - MenarSe@parl.gc.ca
Liberals:
Brian Murphy - Murphy.B@parl.gc.ca
Ujjal Dosanjh - Dosanu1a@parl.gc.ca , Dosanjh.U@parl.gc.ca
Dominic LeBlanc - dominic.leblanc@nb.aibn.com , leblanc.d@parl.gc.ca
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Update: Letter to my Member of Parliament
Muslim Canadian Congress calls for Burqa Ban
Well this is interesting from a pandering to imagined homogenuous ethnic voting blocks perspective.
Read more...Lying Jackal has commanding lead in poll...
..to determine Iggy's most dim witted advisor.
Read more...As a free Canadian, I want the HRC gone
As a member of an ethnic minority group, let me state clearly that I do not want or need it’s protection from anonymous neo-Nazis hiding in their parents’ basements while posting racist slurs on blogs and Youtube. As a free Canadian, I want the HRC gone, yesterday.
Let’s not wait for this to slowly wind it’s way through the highest courts. Politicians, do your duty.
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Ezra Levant recaps the testimony he and Mark Steyn gave before the Justice Committee hearing on Section 13 (1).
Jay Currie offers a sober analysis of how the judicial review of Section 13 (1) should be fought by the oppressed freedom loving peoples of Canada currently suffering under the heel of Jennifer Lynch and her Jack Booted Speech Nazis.
Watch the Michael Coren Interview with Danish "Motoonist" Kurt Westergaard
Thanks again to Mississauga Matt! This is part 1.
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
Updates on the quest for Intervenors in the judicial review of Warman v. Lemire
The BC Civil Liberties Association has indicated they will be seeking intervenor status at the upcoming judical review of Warman v. Lemire.
Pen Canada has indicated that while they fully support the abolition of Section 13 (1) they are not currently in a position to seek status as an intervenor.
Dear Mr. Lemire,
Thank you for your request.
PEN Canada has a clear and long-standing position on the unconstitutionality of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which can be found on our website, www.pencanada.ca
As an organization, we are not in a position to undertake interventions at this time.
Sincerely,
PEN Canada
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Meanwhile keep those cards and letters flowing to all potential intervenors in this matter, let them know how important this is to the Canadian public.
Universities bastions of free speech
Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform representative Jojo Ruba's presentation at McGill University, hosted by Choose Life McGill, was hijacked for over 2 hours tonight by pro-abortion protestors.
Why do I get the impression that most of these same protestors could be found at an Israeli Apartheid Week rally?
Is Jennifer Lynch a tone deaf witless hack?
Yup pretty much.
Turns out her speech before the Canadian Bar Association in Dublin was a 90% rehash of the codswallop she spewed at the grievance monger CASHRA conference. Couldn't you have just sent them an e-mail?
Imagine, a government appointee jetting off to Ireland at taxpayer expense to complain that the citizens she works for disapprove of her efforts to turn the CHRC into Canada's STASI. Go figure.
What does one wear to a "Che Party"?
Losers of the week. What else can you say about a "band" that's hosting an Ernesto Che Guevara Festival... in Edmonton of all places. The video is hilarious.
What does one wear to a "Che Party"? How bout a dead peasant?
Cato Institute: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Canada's Section 13
Much like the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, Section 13 is clearly well-intentioned. No one likes people who say cruel or hurtful things, whether on the Internet or anywhere else. Neo-Nazis are disgusting, and it pains even me to have to defend their rights. But a free society is different from an unfree one precisely in that free societies allow distressing speech to take place.
The other option, in which the litigious have undue power over all of us, is more distressing still.
Michael Coren: Freedom's curmudgeonly hero
"It’s interesting that the same journalists who thought I’d gone too far said not a word recently when a Muslim leader in Denmark stated that Jews were causing AIDS and that the country should live under shariah law where apostates would be killed and women who committed adultery stoned to death.”
Sound familiar? NB: Michael Coren will broadcast an interview with Kurt Westergaard on CTS Tonite at 6 pm EST.
A bit of hyperbole is necessary...
Philippe Dufresne CHRC Hack: "Whether the (hate speech) laws were effective enough in Germany, I can't speculate."
Dare I use the term "Instant Classic" to describe Fleas post?
Listen to Steyn & Rob Breakenridge Discuss The Section 13 (1) Hearing
Grab the podcast here.
More commentary on the hearing:
Scaramouche, Dr. Roy, Scary Fundamentalist
Prediction: Jennifer Lynch' testimony at the Section 13 (1) hearing
“Ezra is a bad man, bloggers are mean, Dean and Richard are good boys. Mark Steyn is a hatermongerer who called my friend Pearl a pedophile. I’m goin home now. Can I expense this?”
Or will the MP's follow the clues left by Levant and Steyn?
Jonathan Kay on Kurt Westergaard, free speech, and leftist refuseniks
"What's ultimately at issue in Europe," Hedegaard told me, "is the very notion of free speech - this is something that goes back to Montaigne, Spinoza, and Milton's Areopagitica ... Yet many on the left seem not to care."
NB: Michael Coren will broadcast an interview with Kurt Westergaard on CTS Tonite at 6 pm EST, extraordinary security arrangements were necessary to ensure the Danish cartoonist's safety. Meanwhile the Khadr's roam free.
Related: Michael Coren with Father Zakariah Botros - this is worth watching, he's got a 60 Million dollar price on his head. Part 2 is here.
Tour de force: Steyn and Levant Destroy the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Drop what you're doing and watch Steyn & Levant as they appear before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights hearing on Section 13 (1).
Or watch the youtube version courtesy of Mississauga Matt, (This is part one, rest available at link).
These psychologically disturbed employees of the Canadian Human Rights Commission wrote and distributed far more hate speech of their own....Mark Steyn
More here: "Two free-speech crusaders appealed to a parliamentary committee Monday to do its part to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its power to investigate complaints of online hate, alleging that it is bad law that has been "corrupted and diseased beyond salvation."
John Geddes of Macleans: MPs from both the government and opposition sides told Maclean’s they are serious about reforming Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Jay Currie: Ezra and Mark give chapter and verse on the perfidities of the CHRC
Deborah Gyapong: Fresh Ezra & Mark the Knife
Just Right: MP's with a poor grasp of the issues
See the Lynch files for more.
CBC: Writers call for probe into human rights commission
Andrew Potter: "The subsequent discussion was bedeviled by two major difficulties. The first was that most members of the committee were either unprepared, or not really paying attention. Joe Comartin in particular didn't seem to realize what the argument is, while Marc LeMay of the Bloc appeared to have not listened to anything that had happened up till his turn, when he brought up an issue that had been dealt with at length earlier on. "
PS. Why did Macleans insist on having Kady O'Malley liveblog this session? I mean is she someone's daughter or what's the story there? Ferreras did a far better job.
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