Steynianism 12.0

~ OUR OTHER GIG: WebElf Blogroll News, January 6, 2008. Happy Epiphany (12th Day of Christmas) …. (webelf)

~ “STEYN’S CONTENTION THAT KREKAR REPRESENTS CANADIAN MUSLIMS”: A strange interpretation from the Muslim Council of Calgary …. (canada.com)

~ MUSLIM spokesman plays musical chairs with imaginary furniture …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ MUSLIMS AGAINST SHARIA— “By now, most people living in Canada and a great many living in the US will know that a group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School have decided to take the Canadian weekly newsmagazine, Macleans, before several provincial incarnations of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Their charge? The Canadian Islamic Congress is offended by passages from Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone, which were published in an issue of MacLeans, the most offensive of which, is a quote from a Danish Muslim cleric (see second page), which the students seem not to have grasped (and what does that say about the standards at that once great, grand old institution, Osgoode Hall?).” Check out & bookmark their site, muslimsagainstsharia.blog …. (muslimsagainstsharia.blog)

~ EXTREMISM flourished as UK lost Christianity, By Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester. Chairman Of The Muslim Forum On Why The Bishop Of Rochester Is Right. Muslim Intolerance in Britain. A Crude response to Bishop of Rochester. Muslims call for ‘no-go’ CoE bishop to resign …. (Various)

~ REX MURPHY on the Osgoode 4 & the case against Maclean’s …. (joewalker)

~ CANADA’S Hate Speech Legislation Becoming Thought Police? …. (sf)

~ BULLSEYE: “Contemporary Canada is what the U.S. would look like if every adjunct sociology professor banded together and successfully staged a putsch. Mandatory hyper-sensitivity training, gothically bad television and governments that regularly compose bizarro world glosses on the Constitution. Followed, fifty years later, by sharia.” …. (dprice.blog)

~ DAMIAN PENNY: A “necessary public shaming”– BigCityLib concedes that the human-rights complaint against Mark Steyn has little merit, but he’s perfectly okay with any “chilling effect” that may result. “Frivolous legal proceedings being used to “shame” a writer and his publication (which, presumably, is so out of touch with Canadians that it’s going to go bankrupt, but God forbid we let the market decide). That’s the “progressive” position on freedom of expression in Canada, 2008.” …. (damianpenny)

~ AYAAN HIRSI ALI— “Several authors have published books on radical Islam’s threat to the West since that shocking morning in September six years ago. With The Suicide of Reason, Lee Harris joins their ranks. But he distinguishes himself by going further than most of his counterparts: he considers the very worst possibility — the destruction of the West by radical Islam” …. (nytimes)

~ UK TO PROSECUTE Blogger for Criticizing Islam; Sleepwalking into enslavement …. (lgf, Spectator)

~ JAY CURRIE— The cost of wide open immigration: culture; and “But don’t take my word for it“; and “The ankle biters try a bit of deception” …. (jaycurrie)

~ IRENE LANCASTER— “The total and utter dhimmitude of Great Britain, as revealed on today’s BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme” …. (irenelancaster)

~ FIRST THEY CAME for the English Bloggers …. (gatesofvienna.blog, solomonia)

~ SOCON.CA— The Road to Dhimmitude …. (socon.ca)

~ ELSEWHERE, The Department Of Unintended Consequences: Human Rights Commission puts Winnipeg transit riders at risk …. (sda)