Previous posts on Mark Steyn’s case:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/islamo-nuts-try-to-muzzle-mark-steyn-over-macleans-article/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/islamo-nuts-still-pursue-mark-steyn-for-speaking-the-truth/
From Mark Steyn Online:
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.
We now await the decision from the pseudo-judges of the British Columbia tribunal.
Maclean’s responds to recent decision from the Canadian Human Rights Commission
TORONTO, June 26 /CNW/ – Maclean’s magazine is pleased that the Canadian
Human Rights Commission has dismissed the complaint brought against it by the Canadian Islamic Congress. The decision is in keeping with our long-standing position that the article in question,
“The Future Belongs to Islam,” an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s best-selling book America Alone, was a worthy piece of commentary on important geopolitical issues, entirely within the bounds of
normal journalistic practice.Though gratified by the decision, Maclean’s continues to assert that no human rights commission, whether at the federal or provincial level, has the mandate or the expertise to monitor, inquire into, or assess the editorial decisions of the nation’s media. And we continue to have grave concerns about
a system of complaint and adjudication that allows a media outlet to be pursued in multiple jurisdictions on the same complaint, brought by the same complainants, subjecting it to costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars, to say nothing of the inconvenience. We enthusiastically support those parliamentarians who are calling for legislative review of the commissions with regard to speech issues.Link: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2008/26/c8368.html
After worldwide public outrage in Steyn’s defense, the assclowns on the “Human Rights” Commision decided to back off of this travesty.
Score one for the infidels.
And to the Canadian Islamic Congress: Allah u Fuckbar.