Margaret Wente’s piece about Steyn, Maclean’s and those crazy Muslims trying to silence them (and us) is now available outside the Grope & Flail’s firewall:
Read More...“Mr. Steyn, a regular contributor to Maclean’s, has probably offended 99 per cent of the readers at one time or another. That’s the kind of guy he is. The offending piece is vintage Steyn: provocative, highly coloured and wildly overdrawn. It argues that the West is in demographic and cultural decline, while Islamic populations, by contrast, have high fertility rates and a new cultural assertiveness. It doesn’t talk about Canadian Muslims at all.
“Curiously, the four complainants in the case are all law students or graduates from York University’s Osgoode Hall. You might think that law students, of all people, would be very big on stuff like civil liberties, tolerance and free speech. I guess not.
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“Darn those feelings. They can make you feel so bad. If feelings were facts, no one in Canada would be allowed to state a controversial opinion.
“Standing in solidarity with the CIC is the Ontario Federation of Labour. ‘You can visibly see folks being stereotyped in this article,’ said OFL executive vice-president Terry Downey. ‘There is proper conduct that everyone has to follow, including the media.’
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“In case you haven’t guessed, I’m no fan of the CIC. Its chair, Mohamed Elmasry, once let slip that he thinks all Israeli adults are legitimate targets for terrorists. Nor is the CIC a fan of mine. It tracked my sins for years, and concluded The Globe and Mail scores high on the Islamophobia meter.
