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~ SHE’S HATEFUL, DIMINUTIVE, and a dang fine writer! “Thanks to everyone… who bought my new e-book Acoustic Ladyland yesterday! Remember: there’s no shipping, duty, or wait time. Buy now; buy more; buy often; buy like you’ve never bought before! …. (5fof)

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Mark Steyn Links

~ ALONE IN CANADA: BREAKING! THE MOUNTIES vs THE JADE WARRIOR — “The RCMP launch a criminal investigation into the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission. Don’t forget America Alone, the US bestseller that spawned three Canadian hate-crime investigations, is just released in the deranged Dominion and back on the Globe And Mail Top Ten list. You can order your personally autographed copy exclusively from the Steyn Store.” …. (Various Steynian Links)

~ CANADA vs FREE SPEECH: DEBATEWATCH UPDATE UPDATE– “The state of play” …. (steynonline)

~ MARK STEYN, and a demand for “accurate news and information” …. (shotgun)

~ HAPPY VICTORIA DAY! — “I wrote the piece below for Victoria Day 2002. Six years on, I’m not half so optimistic about the ability of the Britannic inheritance to overcome the challenges it faces. Thanks to my present travails in the deranged Dominion, I’ve had to acknowledge the fantastic scale of the Trudeaupian project and the remorselessness with which it has hollowed out Canadian institutions. Like Rick Hiebert, my colleagues at Maclean’s had taken note of the 1938 Supreme Court decision on press freedom, which would appear to be dispositive – were it not that judges are ever less respectful of pre-Charter decisions. Like Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, Canada has its Year Zero, and a revolutionary’s disdain for the pre-Trudeaupian world. So, on this Victoria Day, I celebrate not modish cant but ancient liberties, in the hope that one day we can recover them” …. (steynonline)

~ STEYN ON FOX: On Tuesday Mark joins Laura Ingraham on The O’Reilly Factor coast to coast at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific, and on Thursday he’ll be guest-hosting Hannity & Colmes …. (FOX)

Ezra Levant Links

~ RCMP OFFICIALLY launches investigation into CHRC tactics …. (ez)

~ EZ REPORTS “Good news from the prairies” …. (ez)

AD 2008/05/19 – Monday

Go ahead. You know you want to.

FreeSpeechery

“I had better tread carefully today, for I am going to write disparagingly about an entire class of sentient beings — and we should all know what has happened to Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Kathy Shaidle, Kate McMillan, Jonathan Kay, Fr Alphonse de Valk, Mark and Connie Fournier, Marc Lemire, and a bewildering, quickly growing list of other Canadian writers hauled before the so-called “human rights” commissions (or more precisely, humanoid rites commissars), and shaken down with frivolous but financially ruinous sue-and-stall court litigation, on the suspicion that they may have entertained “hateful,” politically-incorrect thoughts.”

~ David Warren ~

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— The Public Policy Forum devotes day to HRCs; What it was like to cover the papal visit; Pope’s UN talk a wake-up call to Canada; I loved it when this guy was U.S. Ambassador to the UN; Did Obama really say this? …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ MOUNTIES INVESTIGATING allegations of Corruption at Canadian Human Rights Commission; Feds Called Into To Investigate CHRC; HRC news: Mounties ride to the rescue? …. (Various)

~ SHAIDLE— “The only reason Canadian society is still functioning as a relatively free society… is the borrowed capital of a world view based on the classical God of western theism”– such as G.K. Chesterton’s “Trinity Sunday” …. (5fof, AngCont)

~ FREE SPEECH or an independant Quebec …. (MaD)

~ CANADIANS TO BE PROUD OF: “George Parkin Grant: A Philosopher of Localism, A Man for Europe” …. (brusselsjournal)

~ “THEIR TIME IS SHORT”: Human rights and the gods du jour …. (wcr.ab.ca)

~ MUST-READ FRESH JAGO: “The parallel worlds interpretation of free speech” …. (rjjago)

~ DAVID WARREN: “Abducted by aliens” …. (davidwarrenonline)

~ HONOUR QUEEN VICTORIA, don’t give her a second worth of thought. Socon.ca: “God Save the Queen!” …. (MaD, Socon.ca)

~ RIGHT GIRL = round-eye™. “Racism!!! Quick, tell me where I fill out a Human Rights Commission complaint!” …. (girlontheright)

~ UK SUICIDE-WATCH: ‘Big Brother’ database– Every U.K. Phone Call, E-Mail to Be Monitored …. (timesonline)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA— “Freedom measured out in coffee spoons” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ NOT TO DARE disagree with Flaming Feline, but books aren’t for shooting, even regrettable ones: we came across a used Kinsella tome at a book store last Winter, for a measly $7. I left said author’s offering there on the shelf. It had been there for a long while. The best revenge for waste-of-paper books is to see them mouldering in a used bookstore months or years later …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ OUR BETTERS thought better of it, maybe? “A reader’s Globe & Mail online poll vote magically disappears” …. (p2bc)

~ 21 THINGS You Can’t Say About Obama …. (americandigest)

~ KATE @ SDA ON British Columbia’s Bill 42; Robert Jago wieghs in; Tuns Against Alberta’s gag laws …. (sda, jago, Tuns)

Jihad & Other Forms of Warfare

~ COUNTER JIHADISM: PLEASE SUPPORT The Afghan Canadian Community Centre in Afghanistan, and help young women get an education & skillz: “The Afghan School Project is a grassroots, low-cost, non-profit initiative to establish and operate a post-secondary school (the Afghan-Canadian Community Center or ACCC) in residential Kandahar” and “The Afghan Canadian Community Center operates on a monthly budget of slightly more than US$3000“.. c’mon, people: let’s throw some love their way! The Principal and the students are under death-threats just to do their work …. (theafghanschool.org)

~ DUST MY BROOM— “The interminable case of Omar Khadr suffers from no lack of troubling ambiguities or uncertainties” …. (dustmybroom)

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin Al Husseini with
one of his Nazi Muslim Troops – 1943 Hanzar SS Division.

~ IT SURE LOOKS like Germany is guilty of double-stoking the modern Jihad 3.0 in Turkey and the Middle East during World Wars I & II. Kaiser Wilhelm sought to inflame Jihad to weaken England’s Empire; Hitler pandered to Jihadism and raised Islamist divisions in the name of taking over the Middle East and her oil reserves, and as part of the genocide of the Jews …. (Youtube, various)

~ DAMIAN PENNY went & got hitched.. meanwhile, “While I was away… my own city became the latest front in the cartoon jihad” …. (damianpenny)

~ A TRUE RELIGION of Peace: Iraqi Church Opposes Death Penalty for Jihadi who Murdered Archbishop …. (weaselzippers)

~ BACK-DOOR JIHAD? SHARIA financing– UK: FIRST ISLAMIC BONDS– “London is now established as the most important western centre for Islamic finance. New York has missed the boat.” Kitty Ussher, the UK’s economic secretary to the Treasury …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ EXPOSING The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)– A Ten-Part Video Project …. (investigativeproject.org)

~ YOUTUBE Blows off Senator Lieberman, Refuses to Remove Terrorist Content …. (Wz, mypetjawa)

~ FILTHY KUFFARS cause trouble: “TV news crew attacked at Minneapolis tax-funded Muslim school” …. (michellemalkin)

~ ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS IN THE UK: “Lawlessness, no go zones …….the UK is seemingly lost. The Jews? Society’s canary in the coal mine and the air is poison” …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ AMERICAN ACLU Defends Youthful Terrorists …. (stoptheaclu.com)

~ MILK? COOKIES? AK-47 mag? “Pakistani Army Discovers Al-Qaeda Training Camp Teaching Children how to be Suicide Bombers” …. (wZ)

~ GEORGE JONAS— “Israel has the kind of problems it has because it’s hard to reach a settlement with an enemy that has more to hope from a military victory than fear from a military defeat. If the Middle East conflict is intractable, it’s precisely because Israel poses no threat of ethnic cleansing. Unlike Jews, Arabs need not worry about being pushed into the sea.” …. (georgejonas.ca)

~ FRONTPAGE MAG— Islamofascist Intimidation at Columbus State: Muslim students provoke confrontation, issue warnings to organizers of Islamofascism Awareness Week event …. (frontpagemag)

~ OSAMA BIN LADEN Calls on Muslims to Confront Arab Regimes, Wage Jihad to Liberate Palestine …. (memri.org)

~ 7/7 BOMBING Movie Fabricates Murder of Muslim Man. Pamela Geller: “So the leftard filmmakers have to make up a Muslim death tied to the teribble and real 7/7 bombings. This is pathetic and sick” …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ SCRATCH A LEFTIST, You’ll find an anti-Semite …. (SDA)

~ NOT SO FAST ON THE Qur’an Apology, says Robert Spencer: “Accidentally shooting a Qur’an was stupid; the way we apologized may have made matters worse” …. (frontpagemag)

~ BAPTIST UK Muslim charged with poisoning food, children’s books with urine, feces …. (jihadwatch, 5FOF)

~ SUCKS TO BE US— “Iraq: Al-Qaeda Admits Defeat, Attacks Down 94% in Last Year!” …. (Wz)

~ FREEDOM OF SPEECH— Jane Novak: “The worst of her many offenses is her dogged campaign on behalf of a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who incurred his government’s wrath by writing about a bloody rebellion in the far north of the country. He is on trial on sedition charges that could bring the death penalty, with a verdict expected Wednesday” …. (mypetjawa)

~ UK MUSLIMS Reluctant to Join Police Because of Islamophobia …. (Wz)

~ OFF WITH HIS HEAD! Iraq’s Main Islamic Party: Shooting Koran Requires the “Severest of Punishments” (Also Known as Death) …. (wZ)

~ INSANE BRITISH POLICE: OK to be a terrorist-supporter but not OK to reform and condemn terrorism. The Muslim-loving British police get madder every day …. (stoptheaclu)

~ FILMMAKER GEERT Wilders Warns Bush: Saudi Arabia is No Ally, Islamization not Just a Threat to Europe …. (wZ)

~ PERSECUTION Index 10: Iran …. (timescolumns)

~ THE ONION TV— “9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says” …. (theonion.com)