Steynianism 46.0

Steyn News Links

~ VIDEO: Mark Steyn at CPAC …. (townhall)

~ FRESH RANTING BY ELMASRY: “Human Rights Commissions? — Muslims need not apply.” Cue the orchestra: “♫There’s no victims like us ♪ victims like no victims I know!♫” …. (mediamonitors.net)

~ THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS vs FREE SPEECH: MISINFORMED– A clarification for the nothing-to-see-here crowd …. (steynonline)

~ MIKE DUFFY interviews Mark Steyn …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ TORONTISTAN EXPOSED: “Hundreds of GTA Muslim men in polygamous marriages — some with a harem of wives — are receiving welfare and social benefits for each of their spouses, thanks to the city and province, Muslim leaders say”; Your taxes support Muslim harems in Toronto …. (sda, 5fof)

~ GYAPONG: “Let’s not be too hasty to get rid of group rights” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ MUSLIMS LEAN on Wikipedia …. (nro)

~ LONESTAR TIMES: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside & Muslim Brotherhood” …. (lonestartimes.com)

~ ISLAND MP Martin in dispute with his leader over amending human rights code …. (canada.com)

~ FREEDOM OF SPEECH: “Is Keith Martin really a liberal? Is Mark Steyn going to back down? Is dion a leader?” …. (torydrroy.blog)

~ PANTS ON FIRE– When Blunt Object Meets Jello: “taqiyya (pronounced tark-e-ya) described variously as “precautionary dissimulation,” “religiously-sanctioned deception,” “lying” or “deception” and “keeping one’s convictions secret” and “tactical dissimulation” or “holy deception” …. (cjunk.blog)

~ GET RELIGION: Inequality under the law. Covering Islam remains a struggle …. (getreligion)

~ SHAIDLE– “The moral equivalent of hiding Nazis in your attic during WW2″? …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ “THE FETISHIZATION OF RACIAL HATRED”: Jonathan Kay’s snapshot of Warren Kinsella, the Karsh of Ottawa men’s rooms …. (np, 5fof)

~ GOOD NEWS: After UN Watch protest, UN rights chief reverses course on anti-Semitic Arab charter …. (jihadwatch)

~ AMERICAN THINKER: “Religious coexistence with Islam” …. (americanthinker)

~ JOURNALISM PROF pronounces on dumbass right-wing nuts: “..the dumbass anti-Muslim provocations of right-wing nuts like Maclean’s columnist Mark Steyn and the late, unlamented Western Standard’s Ezra Levant” …. (hfxnews)

~ SHAIDLE– Mark Steyn: “You know what a friend of mine up in Canada said about that…?”; Toronto conference: “A Thousand and One Islamophobes”; I, too, was surprised by Mike Duffy …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ REIN IN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS on speech law, but don’t disband them. The overzealous commissions should be controlled by changing law …. (canada.com)

~ NATIONAL POST on “The fetishization of hatred” …. (np)

~ THE FOUR WIVES of Abu Izzadeen: “Another example of multiculturalism gone mad” …. (spectator.org)

~ MIKE BROCK– More Intellectual Honesty from Jason Cherniak. Slow Blogging: Litigation and Work …. (noncogent.blog)

~ LIBEL JIHAD– Financial Jihad …. (redplanetcartoons)

~ MORE SHAIDLE– “See? Muslims are allowed to lie, says Muslim terrorist. Hindu paper covers Toronto honour killing” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ HOW WE GOT HERE– “..for the secular left, there is no white point above or black point below. Rather, there is only the equator, where we all live in our beautiful, diverse cultures and subcultures, none better than any other: multiculturalism, moral relativism, no objective or “privileged” truth. And yet, multiculturalism and diversity are enforced from on high, despite the fact that the left supposedly does not recognize the existence of morally superior cultural perspectives” …. (onecosmos.blog)

~ FRONTPAGE MAG– Is “Islamo-Fascist” the right term to call our enemy in the terror war? A distinguished panel battles it out at Frontpage …. (frontpagemag)

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Ezra Links

~ FRESH EZRA LEVANT– The embarrassment continues; Canadian Human Rights Act doesn’t apply to Indians– “So which is it? Is the Canadian Human Rights Act so sacrosanct that not even a single section can be amended? Or is the Act so unimportant that Canadian Aboriginals can be denied all of its provisions for years to come?” …. (ezralevant.com)

~ IT ALL MAKES SENSE™– The Suzuki-Nexen-Marqui Axis of Confusion. Global Warming Consensus Alert: Prison! Update: Authoritarianism!! The real agenda of the environmentalists …. (shotgun, acton, drsanity)

~ IN OTHER NEWS, David Suzuki’s web marketing company helps sell oil sands development. Meanwhile, back in reality: ” Brrrr… Record Cold Hits Central Asia– 654 Dead in Afghanistan”; and “The Sound Of Settled Science” .. Global Coldening coming? …. (Various)

The Surrender-Monkey of Canterbury

 

~ MUST-READ MELANIE PHILLIPS: The Archbishop’s speech. Comments ensue …. (melaniephillips)

• Roger Kimball: Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?
• Gledhill: “PTL! Someone agrees with Rowan.” Guess who?
• Lambeth Blog– The Self-Detonating Prelate: +Rowan to resign? And “Senior CofE Cleric to +Cantuar: The jig is up”
• Via Peter Ould:Exclusive – +St Albans on Rowan and Sharia; and “Is Rowan a Numpty?“
• Expert: Christian Liberalism Gives Rise to Radical Islam
• Bovina Bloviator: “The Fate of Useful Idiots“
• Gyapong: Aspects of Sharia inevitable says Archbishop of Canterbury
• The Bishop of Rochester on Sharia Law. Dr Williams and Sharia: wrong suggestion, right concern
• Pundita– Rise of Mordor, Part 2: Archbishop of Canterbury sanctions polygamy
• NROTC: Anglicans for Sharia; Derb- We live in the Age of Bad Ideas
• Church Times: Williams provokes row over sharia law
• BabyBlue Online: “Meanwhile, back at the Palace“
• Archbishop of Canterbury seeks adoption of Islamic law. ‘It is not as if we are bringing in an alien and rival system’. Will there always be an England?
• Open Mouth, Insert Entire Leg (UPDATED)
• Archbishop of Canterbury is “unintentionally right”
• SOCON.CA– The Fifth Gospel
• Celebrate Diversity! Even if it Kills You
• Good, and good for you! Asim Siddiqui: “While the tabloids have gone haywire over Rowan Williams’ comments, it is more useful to look at what sharia should mean in a modern context”
• Spectator Blog: A massive clerical error
• Cranmer Blog– Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘Shari’a law in Britain is unavoidable’
• HOT AIR– Anglican leader: It’s time for shari’a in Britain
• Archbishop of Canterbury: Because Britain Tolerates Pro-Life Activists, We Should Accept Sharia Law
• Archdhimmi of Canterbury: Sharia law in UK is “unavoidable”
• NEW CRITERION: “Mark Steyn is fond of asking, “How do you solve a problem like sharia?”
• Archbishop of Canterbury is “unintentionally right“
• A NEW LOW: The Archdhimmi Speaks Out
• UK PM rejects special laws for Muslims
• Goodbye England, Hello Londonistan