Muslim nations have a shameful record on women and minorities. But it is dishonest to conflate that with the Muslim minorities in the West. It is counterproductive to lay collective guilt on them. They don’t live there, they live here, and should be judged as any other fellow-citizens. Anything less is to devalue our democracies.
The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) announced today that it has launched several human rights complaints against Maclean’s Magazine. Separate complaints have been filed in response to the Maclean’s article The Future Belongs to Islam written by Mark Steyn […] In response to the article, several law students met with editors Kenneth Whyte and Mark Stevenson and proposed that Maclean’s publish a response. In response, Mr. Whyte indicated that Maclean’s would rather go bankrupt than allow a response to the article.
Time to take out a subscription. And contact your MP because the Canadian Thought Control Police could come for you next.
(Which reminds me – I have a Richard Warman poll in the works. Stay tuned.)
More – Further response from Macleans here.
And here – from Ken Whyte;
On Dec. 5, Whyte issued the following statement to clarify what happened at the meeting: “The student lawyers in question came to us five months after the story ran. They asked for an opportunity to respond. We said that we had already run many responses to the article in our letters section, but that we would consider a reasonable request. They wanted a five-page article, written by an author of their choice, to run without any editing by us, except for spelling and grammar. They also wanted to place their response on the cover and to art direct it themselves.
“We told them we didn’t consider that a reasonable request for response. When they insisted, I told them I would rather go bankrupt than let somebody from outside of our operations dictate the content of the magazine. I still feel that way.”
You can read the Steyn piece in question at this link.
I altogether agree with irwin daisy, who seems to know what he’s talking about: opinion backed up by fact.
I believe teddy’s altogether naive or just not thinking straight: I believe that the Muslims (this word should be capitalized, teddy: among other things, someone might think they’re being insulted!), who harbour and aid and abet the fanatics, are also culpable. To entirely let the general Muslim community off the hook is to altogether underestimate both the threat AND accountability. (I suspect that teddy is from the “whatever” generation: that group of poorly socialized freeloaders, who wouldn’t recognize responsibility and true neighbourliness–the Golden Rule–if they jumped up and down and screamed at him. He probably says “No problem” instead of “You’re welcome”.)
Think, teddy, of all the Germans in the vicinity of the concentration camps, who claimed to know nothing was amiss. Do you admire these people? Do you believe them? Change the context: how about all the Muslims in the West who never make any comment about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of their prophet and their faith. Do you admire them? Do you respect their silence?
It seems you do. On what grounds? You’re playing with the adults here, teddy. You’re not allowed to hide under your blanket.
Speak up!