(UPDATE 7:20PM EST:
(BlazingCatFur is rounding up the blogosphere/MSM responses in one post. BCF even emailed the Canadian Arab Federation to ask what they thought of the ruling — and they answered!)
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Mark Steyn just posted this on his homepage:
Their Marsupial Majesties at the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal have dismissed El-Mo’s complaint against Maclean’s and voted unanimously to acquit the hatemongers… I’ll be discussing the verdict later today after 6.30pm Mountain Time with Rob Breakenridge on 770 CHQR Calgary.
But what’s with the “but”?
Well, now we’ll get to hear, “It’s cuz we iz Muslims, init?” for the next 10 years. Jews have always won their HRC cases against neo-Nazis, and Christians always lose to gays; the optics are bad all around.
Mohammed Al-Sharpton will say, “This verdict is just as Islamophobic as Steyn’s articles. They even released it on a Friday because that’s our holy day!”
And the cycle will continue in appeal.
Reaction from around the web (to be updated), with all the “old hands” in this matter on deck first:
Michelle Malkin
Nicolas Packwood
Jay Currie
Denyse O’Leary
Pundita
Deborah Gyapong
And of course — FreeMarkSteyn.com
Chat about it over at the Western Standard (Ezra Levant’s old mag, now online).
Here’s a link to our Pajamas Media interview about the case and our book, from earlier this week.
My apologies to everyone I’ve left off (for now) but have a quickie article to write about this for Pajamas Media. Send me your blog links and I will post them later, I SWEAR.
Here’s my publisher’s press release about today’s verdict:
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