“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill in 1946
~ STEYN: CHUTZPAH! Cabinet minister Jason Kenney fires back at Elmasry’s sidekick. .pdf copy of his reply-letter. Some background …. (steynonline)
~ CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL— VOL 70: Premier Ralph Klein, the Human Rights Commissioner, and Bishop Henry of Calgary; Why the “Hate Crimes” Section of the Criminal Code Should be Abolished; and Archives …. (culturalrenewal.ca)
~ TRIBUNALS ON TRIAL: The Washington Times on “human rights” in Canada …. (washingtontimes)
~ MUSLIMS AGAINST SHARIA:”Islamofascist-Dhimmi Axis Assault on Free Speech: Latest Casualties”; Freedom of Speech is Under Attack in Canada … and in America …. (muslimsagainstsharia.blog)
~ READ ALL ABOUT IT: Lots of resurces on the CIC-Steyn situation from the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (contributed link: many thanks!) …. (safs.ca)
SAFS Statement on the Human Rights Complaints against Maclean’s Magazine, December 21, 2007 Mark Steyn’s Maclean’s excerpt that is the object of the CIC complaints
The Case For the CIC Complaints
- Press Release: Canadian Islamic Congress, December 4, 2007
- Faisal Joseph, Maclean’s Piece Needs Response, London Free Press, December 17, 2007
- Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan, Muneeza Sheikh and Daniel Simard, All We Want is a Chance to Respond,
National Post, December 20, 2007- CIC Complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission
- CIC Complaint to the British Columbia Human Rights Commission
- CIC Complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission
- CIC Report: Maclean’s Magazine: A case study of media-propagated Islamophobia
- Kate Lunau, Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Whyte response to Canadian Islamic Congress claim that he “prefers bankruptcy over balance”, Maclean’s magazine, December 4, 2007
- Andrew Coyne, The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: The state, Maclean’s magazine, December 5, 2007
- Margaret Wente, So who’s fuelling the prejudice?, Globe and Mail, December 6, 2007
- CBC news, Tory minister slams Islamic congress complaint against journalist, December 12, 2007
- Mark Steyn, The case against Maclean’s, Steyn Online, December 12, 2007
- Dan Gardner, The arguments may be drivel but that’s no reason to censor them, Ottawa Citizen, December 15, 2007
- Nigel Hannaford, Topics for free public debate increasingly restrained, Calgary Herald, December 15, 2007
- David Warren, Then they came for Mark Steyn…, Ottawa Citizen, December 17, 2007
- Stanley Kurtz, Mark Steyn is losing, National Review Online: The Corner, December 17, 2007
- Ezra Levant, Censorship in the name of ‘Human Rights’, National Post, December 18, 2007
- Robert Spencer, Stand by Steyn, Human Events, December 19, 2007
- Rebecca Walberg, Shut down the human rights commissions, Calgary Herald, December 19, 2007
- The Editors, Free Steyn, National Review, December 19, 2007
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- CBC News, Muslim students file rights complaints over Maclean’s article, but Muslim Canadian Congress defends Maclean’s freedom of expression, December 5, 2007
- A. Alan Borovoy, Hearing complaint alters rights body’s mandate, Calgary Herald, March 16, 2006
- George Jonas, Borovoy sees the light, National Post, April 7, 2006
~ ROCKER MATTHEW GOOD: “Will It Never End?” …. (matthewgood)
~ BARBARA AMIEL: “I feel like suing them myself but that’s not the point. The rabbi had been sent by his fellow commissioners to straighten me out” …. (macleans.ca)
~ COMMENTS BY Werner Patels: Objective: Offend as much as possible’. Anonymous bloggers are like phone perverts. WernieP : showin’ the love to the webelves! We blush (as mercenary perverts should). But don’t mercs get paid? And we hardly ever use the phone. More helpfully, WP has written: “Media outlets are private property” …. (albertapundit)
~ CALLING ALL RED-NECKED, MOUTH-BREATHING KNUCKLE-DRAGGERS; lefty Warren Kinsella gets his monkey-hoot on (much easier than dealing with the questions); and “Warren Kinsella: Cartoons and Islam” …. (warrenkinsella, np)
~ SOCON.CA— “Moving ahead against the HRCs” …. (socon.ca)
~ SHAIDLE: “Can’t they both lose? Accused anti-Semite entraps Human Rights Commission with entrapment charge”; and “Another condemnation of Canadian Human Rights Tribunals” …. (fivefeetoffury)
~ A YOUNG LAWYER/ sidekick to Elmasry– Learning about law to change Canada.. His school? .. “Khurrum Awan is an Osgoode Hall alumnus who has gone on to be a positive face for Muslim Canadians across the nation.” Here’s some Google for ya. Via …. (excal.on.ca)
~ REVISIT: BE ON THE WATCH! Do you have “Offended Muslim Syndrome”? …. (fivefeetoffury)
~ LATEST TIDBITS from the LawIsCool fansite: Hot Pix of Omar, celeb insider secrets, events, lawyer love-tips– and much, much more!! Law is Cool – Episode #7. Actually, some of these guys actually seem decent and idealistic, aside from their proclivity for strong-arm tribunalism …. (lawiscool.com)
Ezra Links
~ DR. EZRA OFFERS SOME PRESCRIPTIONS to cure our severe case of tribunalitis: “What can be done?” …. (ezralevant)
“Far better for a government to abolish those commissions, and take those budgets and invest them in civics programs — teaching Canadians, especially new immigrants, about the most precious and valuable human rights around, the ones we have inherited from 800 years of tradition in the free west. It is not a coincidence that the two recent complaints against free speech were filed by radical Muslim immigrants from Egypt and Pakistan. Basic civics classes — not partisan political indoctrination, but a basic primer in the rule of law; fundamental freedoms; the equality of men and women; non-violent solutions to problems, etc.
“A week ago, I would have thought that this last option would have been politically impossible. But, given the overwhelming support I have received from the general public — and the positive reception from even liberal and many left-wing commenters — I think that an abolition of the commissions and their tribunals would be well-received.
“I’d invite people to help with this process…”
~ THE PAKISTAN TIMES: ‘Conservative voices must not be allowed to define Islam’ …. (dailytimes)
~ JOHN DERBYSHIRE: Flashman, Ron Paul, James Kirchick—And Liberty …. (derb)
~ DAVID WARREN— “Victims of the revolution” …. (canada.com)
~ ON EZRA:”Another white male, another conservative, another Human Rights Commission, another defendant, another attack on freedom speech …. (canadianimmigrationreform.blog)
~ LORNE GUNTER: Alberta’s gauntlet of bias …. (nationalpost)
~ SHOTGUN BLOG: Mr. Levant goes to the Commission …. (shotgun)
~ POT, KETTLE: Human Rights Complaint Now Lodged against Ezra Levant’s Accuser. Syed Soharwady, the accused …. (lifesite, shotgun)
~ SOCON.CA— Shakedown for Cash; Class Warfare in Islamanada …. (socon.ca)
~ WASHINGTON TIMES: Putting tribunals on trial, By Pete Vere …. (washingtontimes)
~ CONTRITION wasn’t on Ezra Levant’s mind …. (canadafreepress)
~ STORY-TIME with E 01.17.08: Charge of the Tolerance Brigade …. (411mania)
~ HOTAIR VID: Ezra Levant begs Canada’s Star Chamber to convict him …. (hotair.com)
~ ACE OF SPADES: About Those Canadian Human Rights Commissions …. (ace.mu.nu)
~ HERMAN GOODDEN— “The stifling menace that has been unleashed on Canadian civic life over the last couple decades by those federal and provincial tribunals known as human rights commissions is finally being dragged into the full glare of public scrutiny with the highest profile cases of their kind yet to be heard” …. (lfpress.ca)
~ FREE SPEECH for thee, but not for me …. (creamofthecrock.blog)
~ BLOGGER NEWS— “With the escalation in instances such as those presently being endured by Lionheart and Ezra Levant, wherein the heretofore unalienable rights of citizens of Western nations are being threatened by the very governments sworn to protect them, it is clear the Left’s 40 plus year campaign to defame Western Civilization is reaping dividends” …. (bloggernews.net)
~ ANOTHER VID.. “I dunno… this Mohammed guy has his own thing going on…” …. (fivefeetoffury)
A Swift Sunrise 
I don’t fully understand the characterization of Law Is Cool (sic) as a “law school blog and podcast from Canada.” Their About page says, “If you are a first year law student in Canada, feel free to contact us about joining the team,” and, “Note: This site is student-run….” It’s lovely that Omar Ha-Redeye “decid[ed] to pursue a law degree at the University of Western Ontario,” but what’s his interest in “Leaving The Law Meetups”? Moreover, he seems to be in the United States rather than in Canada. Ha-Redeye remains so intimately involved and so prominently featured at Law Is Cool (sic) that their self-description seems to have become quite misleading. God only knows what commission one must face for raising such simple issues.
G_D knows, none of that is what strikes me the most.
I look at the authors and I see names whose background appears to be Catholic: Italian (Di Lullo), French (Simard), Spanish (Geronimo) and Irish (Kennedy); Jewish: Ashkenazi (Kaufman, Kleiman, Dimson) and Sephardic (Ha-Redeye); Protestant – Unknown (Saddington, Winfield, Evans, Wisdom); Muslim (Ahmed); and Hindu (Baid).
It looks like a ecumenical conference here or something. Or maybe an inclusive vision of Canada that many of the criticizers here on this site have never achieved.
After reading the post on your site Kralizec, this individual doesn’t seem to be involved in the case at all. And due to their “pseudonymity” (sic), most of the posts are under a general name making further discretion difficult. But they do seem to be pretty clear about who is behind the Steyn case, and you seem to be barking up the wrong tree.
Anyhow, my two cents before I’m off…
You don’t need God to see that the unsubstantiated claims on “Kralizek’s” site easily constitute libel, and s/he would have to prove otherwise. And Binkie boy, linking to the complainants’ place of work is a big no-no. Didn’t someone already warned you about that? Hey, now Kinsella is in the mix for a potential libel case too, (he’s a lawyer too by the way).
All lawyers do talk to each other, by the way, and nefariously scheme how to make money of other people’s stupidity and stupid websites. But it is a conspiracy theory, as you’ve stated, isn’t it?
Considering the repeated warnings, you would think someone would wise up. Internet cases will have continuing standing, and considering that no effort was made to remove personal identifiers, there’s no limitation period (as long as it remains on the site). Meaning well after all of this has blown over and nobody cares about your sorry ass, you can still get strung out.
Ho ho ho…
St. Nick is not happy about this. Some elves, I tell you…