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If we’ve missed any useful links or contact-info, please leave them in the comments section, SVP.

Word from a comment: “My hubby used to work in an MP’s office – a hand written and addressed letter sent through the post office has far more impact than an email. An MP will assume that a hand written letter represents the opinions of 100 people who didn’t bother to write.“

The Horribly Offending Article

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20061023_134898_134898

The future belongs to Islam

The Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it. It’s the end of the world as we’ve known it. An excerpt from ‘America Alone’.

MARK STEYN | Oct 20, 2006

Sept. 11, 2001, was not “the day everything changed,” but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you’d said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century’s principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.

Now, Or Later

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be.
And one day, some great opportunity stands before you
and calls upon you to stand up for some great principle,
some great issue, some great cause.
And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.
You refuse to do it because you want to live longer.
You’re afraid that you will lose your job,
or you’re afraid that you will be criticized
or that you will lose your popularity,
or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you,
or shoot at you or bomb your house;
so you refuse to take the stand.
‘Well you may go on and live until you are 90,
but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90.
And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You refused to stand up for justice.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the sermon “But, If Not”
delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church November 5, 1967.

He was assassinated five months later on April 4, 1968. Via.

Recent News 1.0 – 12.20.07

~ SIGN THE PETITION! “A Free Dominion Against the HRCs.” Via. Official petition discussion.

~ Mark Steyn/Maclean’s support buttons for your blog (Collect All Three!) via The Conservative Hipster

~ BUY THE UNSPEAKABLE BOOK that started the uproar! Here’s his “My Sharia Amour gift pack” .. and other stuff by The Steyn.

~ SHAIDLE— Boycott Canada: Hugh Hewitt talks to Mark Steyn. And support the beleaguered Macleans Mag, says Mark, by subscribing now. And “In Canada, when someone hurts your feelings, you can respond, write a letter to the editor, call a talk radio show, start a political campaign. But you don’t go running to the government. Mr. Soharwardy has to realize he is in a free country now.” And: Paging Dr. Elmasry and his five ditzy law students. Other recent links here.

Underway.. Full Speed Ahead!

This blog is a special project to link to resources, news-stories, and actions concerning the current troubles of journalist Mark Steyn, under attack from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and an Islamic Advocacy group, the Canadian Islamic Council.

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