Muslims Attempt To Muzzle Muzzie Critic Steyn
Mohamed Almasry is the president of the CIC, and a real asshole.
I guess I don’t talk enough about Mark Steyn, regular contributor to the National Review, and outspoken critic of radical jihadis and the unfettered propagation of unassimilated Muslim populations throughout the Western World.
His book “America Alone” which makes a very strong argument that Western Society may be forever negatively changed due to unassimilated Muslims immigrating into the West.
There is a Muslim advocacy group in Canada, where he is from, called the Canadian Islamic Congress that has filed a complaint with a few Canadian “human rights organizations” in an effort to shut him up.
I got two words for those pukes, and they aren’t Merry Christmas.
From the Editors of NRO:
Free Steyn
Our readers know Mark Steyn well. His witty and learned commentary appears in every issue of National Review, and in many other English publications across the world. What Steyn’s American readers may not know is that a Muslim advocacy group in his native Canada is doing its best to muzzle him.
On December 4, the Canadian Islamic Congress announced that it had filed a complaint with three of Canada’s “human rights commissions” over an October 2006 article that Steyn had published in Maclean’s, Canada’s leading news weekly. “This article completely misrepresents Canadian Muslims’ values, their community, and their religion,” said Faisal Joseph, an attorney representing the complainants, in a press release. “We feel that it is imperative to challenge Maclean’s biased portrayal of Muslims in order to protect Canadian multiculturalism and tolerance.”
The article in question was adapted from Steyn’s recent book America Alone, which argues that Western society may be irrevocably altered — and not for the better — by unassimilated Muslim immigration. It’s no surprise that this thesis is controversial, probably in part because Steyn makes his points so well. But the real threat to tolerance here is the CIC, which would have the state impose penalties on those whose writings it disagrees with.
In doing so it only provides evidence for Steyn’s thesis. Another group of Canadian Muslims — the Muslim Canadian Congress — has said as much, denouncing the CIC’s complaint for affirming “the stereotype that Muslims have little empathy for vigorous debate and democracy.” But at the moment, the CIC’s push for censorship advances. Of the three human-rights commissions to which it submitted its complaint, two have agreed to hear the case. (The third has yet to decide.)
Since their founding, Canada’s human-rights commissions have done less to protect the rights of minorities than to undermine the liberties of everyone.
Check out the whole article at the National Review Online here.
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I read America Alone, and can’t imagine anyone being insulted by it. I think he is just trying to call moderate muslims out, and to call attention to extreme Muslims. I hope he kicks their butts, and I wish him well. The 1st amendment is my favorite one, and I think Canada should get one also.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:04 pmAnother fine example of Canadian tolerance (cough, cough).
Here are my salient points as outlined by Robert Spencer. I quote:
“There were just two problems: The “Muslim continent” statement is not only factual, it’s stated in words no one can characterize as inflammatory. (Also, it’s been said by Libya’s strongman Muammar Qaddafi). Second, “The number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes” was not Steyn’s phrase. He was quoting Mullah Krekar, a jihadist who currently resides in Norway, although officials have been trying for years to get him out of the country..
And that sums up the problem with the Canadian human rights commissions’ action against Steyn: he was simply reporting on contemporary European reality. It was not Mark Steyn, but Algerian leader Houari Boumédienne who said at the United Nations in 1974: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” Those who want to silence Steyn want to suppress facts and limit free speech.
It was not Steyn who said that “Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor,” and that “the conquest this time will not be by the sword but by preaching and ideology.” That was Al-Jazeera’s Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi, who is widely hailed as a moderate reformer in the West. Did Steyn say that Muslims “will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it”? Nope. That one comes from a Saudi Sheikh, Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-‘Arifi, imam of the mosque of King Fahd Defense Academy.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is putting itself in the peculiar position of penalizing those non-Muslims who report on such statements, as if it is somehow an act encouraging “hatred and contempt” to reveal the unpleasant reality that comprises mainstream Islamic rhetoric today…”
December 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm“CIC, which would have the state impose penalties on those whose writings it disagrees with”
Their mentality should be attack relentlessly
December 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pmMindy - I also read Steyn’s America Alone and couldn’t put it down. I agree totally with your assessment.
I didn’t see America Alone so much as a slam on Muslims as a reality check to the West offered to shed light on the socialist programs in Europe and ironically in Canada that created an environment for fanatical Muslims to flourish (among other disasterous policies).
Having read this post Steyn should now add a chapter on so-called human rights groups that are anything but which serve only to further assist Muslim fanatics and other assorted fascists in their quest to silence sny/all opposing views.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:08 pm