Have we got a trend yet? Islam ruining charter right 2,

Here’s the thing: two years ago, the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada took The Western Standard to the Alberta “human rights” commission for republishing the Danish Muhammad cartoons. A few months back, the Canadian Islamic Congress took Maclean’s to the Canadian, Ontario and British Columbia “human rights” commissions for publishing an excerpt from my bestselling hate crime, America Alone. Last week, the Centre for Islamic Development took the Halifax Chronicle-Herald to the Nova Scotia “Human Rights” Commission for publishing an editorial cartoon of a, ah, person of an Islamic persuasion.

Have we got a trend yet?

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This is an entirely different scale of project. Muslim lobby groups have very shrewdly calculated that the “human rights” commissions are the quickest, cheapest and most coercive means of applying pressure to mainstream publications in order to put Islam beyond discussion — or at least beyond all but the most pink-marshmallow celebrate-diversity discussion.

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So four weeks from now I’ll be banished from the Canadian media, which will undoubtedly be distressing to my loyal reader (I use the singular advisedly). But a year or two down the line, many other subscribers to Maclean’s and the Chronicle-Herald and eventually the Globe and the Toronto Star will be wondering why there are whole areas of debate that no longer seem to get much of an airing in the public prints. In 1989, Muslims who objected to Salman Rushdie burned his novel in the streets of England. Two decades on, they’ve figured out that it’s more efficient to use the “human rights” commissions to burn the offending texts metaphorically, discreetly, offstage . . . and (ultimately) pre-emptively.

Pace my old comrade, I don’t need to see a movie because I’m in one. We’re at that point in the plot where the maverick investigator takes the call saying a third example of the strange spore has been found in a field in Idaho, and he pushes another pin in the map and goes “Hmm” thoughtfully.

But he still can’t get his colleagues to see that something’s going on.

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/opinions/article.jsp?content=20080514_72985_72985&page=1

Well our Justice minister certainly doesn’t care? Nicholson to push for removal of section 2 “FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS” from the Charter.