~ REMEMBER your actionables: write, call, speak out, letters to the editor (and remember to mention the url FreeMarkSteyn.com in all of them). The ‘Echo-Chamber’ effect of the blogosphere is not enough to bring about real-world change. It’s our country, and our freedom to lose. Get to work. And remember MP Keith Martin, too. Harper & Co. be darned: make yourself heard! … (FreeMarkSteyn.com)
Steyn News
~ CANADA vs FREE SPEECH: LET THERE BE NO LIGHT— The neo-fascist threat looms Steyn This Week …. (steynonline)
~ BIG BIG NEWS— MacLean’s Motion: PDFs of the motion filed today. Lemire & Co. : CHRC wants Secret Hearing. Lemire Posts Evidence and will BLOG from the tribunal …. (freedominion, CHRC.blog)
~ REALITY-CHECK— “Members of the clergy are being advised to take off their dog collars when they are on their own, to reduce the risk of being attacked. In a survey of 90 London clergy Mr Tolson carried out last year, nearly half said they had been attacked in the previous 12 months. One vicar, from Willesden, north-west London, said his vicarage had been machine-gunned – but still did not believe he had experienced violence. Mr Tolson said: “For some clergy this is real radical stuff. The argument against it is it’s their witness in the community – their way of saying, ‘hello, I’m the vicar’.” The Dog Collar Incident. National Churchwatch site & Clergy Document (.pdf) …. (Various)
~ SHAIDLE— “How dare you leave me out, Sheldon!” …. (fivefeetoffury)
~ WARREN SMELLS Nazis, calls names, pontificates: “ARE MARK STEYN AND MACLEAN’S LYING OR JUST STUPID?” DON’T give him hits, svp …. (freedominion.com)
~ KATE @ SDA— Dragging Miss Lucy … out from under the bed: “Thanks to everyone who’s written letters to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal requesting that the March 25th hearing into the activities of the CHRC’s “human rights investigators” not be held in camera – ie, in secret” …. (smalldeadanimals)
~ FLAMING CATS: “A shocking similarity…. I now understand where our Human Rights Commissions have received both their training & inspiration: Commission Denies Humiliating Woman Student in Makkah” …. (blazingcatfur.blog)
~ SHIRE NETWORK NEWS— “The Organisation of the Islamic Conference says it’s going to sue anyone who criticises Islam by suggesting they’re over sensitive to criticism. Hey, we don’t make this stuff up, we just report it.” …. (shirenetworknews)
~ GOBBLE, GOBBLE— Trial for “insulting Turkishness” drags on …. (magicstatistics.com)
~ SPENCER— “Not a word about the dhimmi laws… which institutionalize the oppression of non-Muslims under Sharia rule. And that’s enough in itself to discredit Noah Feldman’s extended valentine to Sharia in the New York Times Magazine” …. (jihadwatch.org)
~ SPECIAL PLEADING— Islamofacism Fraud at Wright State: “A Muslim Student Association official rigs an online poll to push for a private Islamic prayer room on campus” …. (frontpagemag)
~ CELESTIAL JUNK: Limits to Free Speech– The arguments against “insulting” Muslims are getting tedious and ever more convoluted …. (cjunk.blog)
It’s ♫ Ezra, The P.O.S. Jew ♫.. Recent Update
~ EZRA — “Maclean’s joins the battle” …. (ezralevant.com)
~ EZRA ON Irwin Cotler: HRCs need some adult supervision. and “HRCs in the news” …. (ezralevant.com)
~ EZ: IN OTHER NEWS … Harper wins, Dion and Layton lose…. (ezralevant.com)
~ STEVE JANKE: “Is Farhan Chak planning another political run?” …. (stevejanke.com)
~ RIGHT CRAZY— “Better Than Ezra?” …. (rightcrazy.com)
~ MAKING CONNECTIONS— “It’s instructive to look at the “Human Rights” circles that those who try to muzzle the speech of others move in. Chak, in addition to providing “Human Rights Workshops” at ECEJ (“Edmonton Centre for Equal Justice”) was a speaker in 2003 at the CAPDHHE (Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education) conference in Calgary” …. (haloscan, Google)
~ THE LIST OF Arman Chak’s cases at AHRC …. (gov.ab.ca)
~ AN COMMENTER’S Letter on Ezra’s site: “I am writing to find out why the CBC has largely overlooked a HUGE story, of very serious import to the Canadian public.” …. (haloscan)
~ DATA-MINING: This web site is a treasure trove …. (pakistanli)
A Swift Sunrise 