Steynianism 36.5

Too late in the day for pretty pictures and such. You’ll just have to suffice yourselves with the cornucopaeia of news & backgrounder stuff.. Binks

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~ THE INTERIM EDITORIAL: “Human rights tribunals – curb ’em or close ’em” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ S. WRAY GREGOIRE: “Thank goodness we live in Canada where we have the freedom to say and think whatever we want to, right?” …. (proudtobecanadian)

~ SHAIDLE TV-UPDATE: The Lights! The Cameras!! “Well, I made the liberal lawyer huff a teeny bit so I’m happy. What happened? I can never remember clearly” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ CURRIE V. Kinsella: “So, Where’s my Writ??” …. (jaycurrie)

~ MACADAMIA BLOG: “We’ve heard from the crazies… How about we give equal time to the secular Muslim Canadian Congress?” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ DR. ROY: human rights commissions vs free speech 2 …. (torydrroy.blog)

~ SOCON.CA on HRC Discrimination …. (socon.ca)

~ THERE’S NO CAUSE SO LAME, that this guy won’t support it— “Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish ‘thoughtless or cruel’ words”; in other news, Islam neo-puritan trends ‘barbaric’ says ABC at HMD …. (transfigurations.blog, gledhill)

~ PAGING KHALED Loufti Mouammar: ” A Financial Appeal from the Canadian Arab Federation” …. (dustmybroom)

~ FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Rally Organizers May Face Death Penalty in Yemen …. (mypetjawa)

~ POLICING THE CLASSROOM: The ACLU Misses The Boat …. (p2bc)

~ UNDER THE RADAR— State-employed former university lecturer, Nazi, founder of Nat’l Socialist Party of Canada: charged …. (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ ON RULES, codes of conduct and free speech; More Tolerant Left Squelches Free Speech… Again …. (normblog)

~ SOFT JIHAD @ THE PENTAGON? “And Now, Hesham Islam’s Amazing, Disappearing Profile. What’s the Pentagon Trying to Tell Us?” The disgraceful Coughlin affair …. (PajamasMedia, Dreher)

~ THE ACTON Institute finds “a definition of freedom worth noting”; via …. (acton.org)

~ THE INQUISITION: “..make no mistake about it; what has happened to Professor Hindley is not funny in a “ha-ha” sense. It is funny in a “strange” sense. Although he has never been given a written explanation of the charges against him, he has been found guilty of “harassment” and has had a “monitor” placed in his class to make sure he does not “offend” again” …. (MikeSAdams)

~ FAR-RIGHT Austrian Politician Seeks Police Protection After Islamist Threats; elsewhere, “Wilders, in deliberately setting out to provoke Muslim anger, is going to end up doing the counter-jihad resistance a lot of harm” …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ IT ALL MAKES SENSE: “Leftists today hate freedom and democracy because those ideas have created the environment for success. Assistant Village Idiot recently noted in a comment that Arabs don’t hate us because we have succeeded, but rather, because they have failed. The same is true for the leftists- their burning hatred of democracy stems from their failure to create a single instance of a functioning society that isn’t a least a generation behind our own. Not even the redistribution of wealth can make up for the values and freedom that create an environment that allows for the creation of wealth” …. (sigcarlfred.blog)

Levantine Links

~ ♫ IT’S EZRA, THE POS JEW ♫ News Update: “Calgarian Khalil Jeha was a member of the infamous Facebook group Ezra Levant is a piece of sh*t Jew and she has apparently taken offence to one blogger posting her picture on his site” …. (dustmybroom)

~ DAMIAN PENNY— Richard Warman and the pie patrol: “Ezra Levant links to some clips from a British documentary about David Icke’s visit to Vancouver, and Richard Warman’s attempt to have him banned” …. (dp)

~ DR. SANITY— “Time is not on Islam’s side, however. Leaders like the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad in Iran and Hamas in Gaza, Hizb’allah in Lebanon; and the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban all seem to desire catastrophic confrontation. They foolishly believe that the West will back down–if not because of a belief in the superiority of Islam; then from doubts about the superiority of Western values and from a reluctance to act decisively and ruthlessly” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ FENRIS: “I can honestly say that I have never experienced this Freedom of Speech stuff that people are talking about” …. (dustmybroom)

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