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Steyn News

~ FRESH SHARIA OUTRAGE IN CANADA— More Sharia encroachment — as well as a brazen flouting of immigration laws, which are weak enough in the first place. “Dial-a-marriage, eh! Islamic law allows telephone nuptials, which enables Muslims to sponsor loved ones to Canada,” by Tom Godfrey for the Toronto Sun. Meanwhile, in the UK: “a panel of four government departments has decided that all the wives of a Muslim man may collect state benefits, provided that the marriages took place in a country where multiple spouses are legal” …. (jihadwatch, familyscholars)

~ FIRST PERSON, SINGULAR— The Islamic Threat to Free Speech: Today’s WSJ has an article by Fleming Rose, an editor of Jyllands-Posten, the publication that printed the infamous Mohammed Cartoons …. (roback-morse.blog)

~ SUSAN MARTINUK: “Polygamous marriages drain taxpayer dollars” …. (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ NATIONAL POST on “Our cherished right to blaspheme” …. (nationalpost.com)

~ UPCOMING EVENT— Islam and the Fate of Europe: Eurabia or Islamic Assimilation? A Conversation with George Weigel and Philip Jenkins. It starts at Noon and ends at 2:30PM. Kindly RSVP before Friday, February 15 to events@eppc.org or 202.715.3515 …. (merecomments)

~ LIVING IN FEAR of LawFare …. (calgaryherald)

~ A REVISIT— Stand By Steyn, by Robert Spencer …. (humanevents)

~ LEXVIEW VOL 152 Do Civil Liberties in Canada Pose a Threat to Religions? The Need to Take a Fresh Look at Some Stale Over-generalizations …. (culturalrenewal.ca)

~ AN INTERESTING TAKE: “Thanks to the Internet, Islam is being challenged and its myths regularly exposed for the first time since Mohammed. The signs are the Internet will kill Islam” …. (faithfreedom)

~ SPECTATOR— Sharia-ing Is Caring, By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. …. (spectator.org)

~ WILLING SURRENDER of the Ivory Towers: Campus Pilgrims Pay Homage to the Terror Masters. Dhimwit Speaks at Stanford …. (pajamasmedia, frontpagemagazine)

~ OH, THOSE BUSY HRCs— “The Ontario Human Rights Commission has ridden to the defence of a Brampton man who says being forced to wear a motorcycle helmet instead of his turban runs counter to his religious faith” …. (dustmybroom)

~ AMERICA— Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech …. (p2bc)

~ THE MURDER of Freedom & Free Speech in England– Homophobia: report it now!; Action to take on ‘inciting hatred on grounds of sexual orientation’ …. (Various)

Your Neighbourhood Thought-Watch

Ezra Levant News

~ FRESH EZRA: The important work of human rights commissions …. (Ez)

~ SAYED SOHARWARDY: the gift that keeps on giving. Two hours with Syed Soharwardy. Woman in burka attacks Human Rights complaintant …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WINGBAT Warren Kinsella, the man who wrote those words, has been using “analogies to the crime of the holocaust” in order to bolster his support for limits on free speech …. (no-libs.com)

~ ADD ANOTHER NAME To the Axis of Weasel…In our meeting, Soharwardy denied his own column. “I never asked to bring sharia in Canada,” he now insists …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ REAL PEOPLE, REAL LIVES: A Danish Cartoonist on the Run …. (pajamasmedia)

~ LEXVIEW VOL 151: Human Rights, The Prophet Cartoons and the Case of Ezra Levant [**Content advisory: some of the language and contents in this article may be offensive to certain readers**] …. (culturalrenewal.ca)

~ THEM TOONZ— Copenhagen police arrest six in fifth night of riots; Organization of Thugs OIC denounces reprinting of Motoons, warns of confrontations between Muslims and Christians. The O.I.C.’s attempt to suppress freedom of speech. Friday, the Day of Prayer and Rage …. (Various)

~ SPINY DANISHES— Danish politicians have canceled a trip to Iran after the mullahs demanded they apologize for the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy …. (littlegreenfootballs)

~ CLASSLESS HATERS— Islamists In Sweden Rejoice at Newspaper Editor’s Death …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ THE QUEENS OF HEARTS.. Another Conviction in Jihadi Plot to Behead Brit Vet …. (mypetjawa)

~ THE HORSE’S MOUTH— “In a recent appearance al Jazeera, Muslim Brotherhood theologian Yousef al-Qaradawi took an interesting, but not unusual line on violent jihad – it is not wrong, but it is ineffective” …. (counterterrorismblog)

~ PLAIN SPEEKING— Who Is “Fascist”? By Thomas Sowell …. (townhall)

~ SANDMONKEY— “Trying to stop the signal– The information Ministers of 22 arab nations have finally got together and took decisive action against.. freedom of speech, the broadcasted by satellite kind. They even formed a…CHARTER” …. (sandmonkey.org)

Rowan Williams

~ CANADIAN Muslim Activist Slams Archbishop Rowan Williams …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ MICHAEL COREN: “Archbishop demonstrates why liberal Christianity is a joke” …. (torontosun)

~ DR. ROWAN WILLIAMS’ The cat sat on the mat …. (babybluecafe.blog, telegraph)

~ PURELY SUICIDAL— “The Church of England has called on the government to drop proposals to extend the period for which terrorism suspects can be held without charge” …. (bbc)

~ LAMBETH ENDURES protests and Page 3 girls in sharia row …. (churchtimes)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS for Chief Rabbi? …. (irenelancaster)

~ NEW CRITERION: “.. now the Good Doctor has “explained” his remarks, and in doing so revealed not only his intellectual, theological, and—of course—legal bankruptcy, but also the public’s appetite for meaningless propitiation” …. (newcriterion)

~ REALITY-CHECK: A warning that cannot be ignored …. (spectator)

~ KRAALSPACE— “Your stupid minds! Stupid!! STUPID!!!” And “Ron Liddle goes down to the larder, and unseals a tin of whoopass on The Fool of Canterbury” …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ HM ELIZABETH II–Anxiety of Queen over sharia law controversy…. (transfigurations.blog)

~ FUREDI— “The Archbishop’s real agenda is to boost the standing of religion itself by cynically piggybacking on the forward movement of Islam” …. (spiked-online)

~ GLEDHILL: Archbishop’s Q & A on Sharia; Bishop of Durham on law and faith …. (gledhill)

~ BULL DURHAM— According to N. T. Wright, one of the major reasons why Rowan Williams got into such trouble recently is that some of you people are dumber than a bag of hammers; and “Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Archbishop of Canterbury!” …. (mcj.blog)

Bishop N.T. Wright on law, secularism, and faith

~ DOES SHARI’A Promote Human Rights? Shari’a Not Just About Stoning and Amputation …. (americanthinker, cnsnews)

~ SPECTATOR— “The Archbishop and Sharia: A Pas de Deux?” …. (spectator)

~ DINESH “If They Want Sharia, Let Them Have It” D’Souza does an about-face …. (JiWa)

~ ENGLAND-WATCH: Shari’a law and the hypocrisy of New Labour …. (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

~ DR. SANITY— “.. even with their polls shrinking, the jihadi thugs know they have powerful allies in the useful idiots of the political left. Take for example, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent descent into multiculti sermonizing” …. (drsanity.blog)

~ ANNE APPLEBAUM: A Craven Canterbury Tale– “Is this a storm in a teacup, as the archbishop now claims? ” …. (catholiceducation)

~ BRITISH POLYGAMISTS to get Welfare Benefits …. (jennifer-roback-morse.blog)

~ THE TIME’S CHOICE of best 10 articles on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sharia speech …. (irenelancaster)

~ BRITAIN’S ENCOUNTER with Islamic Law, by Daniel Pipes …. (danielpipes)

~ ROOTS OF THE ROT— Multiculturalism is making Britain ‘a soft touch for terrorists’; Cardinal: ‘I don’t believe in a multicultural society.’ …. (JiWa, archbishop-cranmer.blog)

Europe Must Resist the Religion of Envy