ISLAMIC CONGRESS AND LAW STUDENTS TO MAKE PUBLIC SETTLEMENT OFFER TO MACLEAN’S ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINTS
Jonathan Kay;

Come to think of it, it’s fair to say that the Maclean’s imbroglio has been one of the biggest shots in the arm to Canadian conservatives in general. It’s turned red-meat right-winger Ezra Levant into a star blogger and a free-speech hero with brand-name recognition in the United States, turned Steyn’s name into a household word, created a debate within the Jewish community over its traditionally doctrinaire support for blanket hate-speech laws (Ezra for CJC president, anyone?), shone a light on the amateurish shenanigans of Canada’s human rights commissions, driven a powerful movement for reform of said commissions, and generally served to marginalize the pro-censorship lobby to the point that its main defender is now a disgruntled former journalist who fills his blog with unhinged conspiracy theories about how everyone who favours free speech is a racist.

More – there’s a big round up of reaction at Shaidle’s place.

“I hope [Steyn] takes the letter, crumbles it up, and dips it in a cup of ketchup and then eats it right there on stage in front of them. Oh God, hear my prayer, please let this happen.”

Or, as Kathy Shaidle likes to say, “Journalists – our moral and intellectual superiors!”
(Great work, Richard)
Update: I’m told that CTV.ca has quietly cut the offending portion from the tape on their online site. Not that there was anything wrong with it! **** Update 2: Or did they? Others tell me the segment is now intact.

No thought-closet is complete without this year’s creative little insult – snark so trendy it deserves its own logo:

A linguistic toupée for the receding intellect! Use it today, and not even your friends will forget you’re stupid.

“The toxic response to the book, as some reviewers are noting, kind of proves his thesis . . . .”

Like a transgendered academic scorned;

In his book, he argued that some people born male who want to cross genders are driven primarily by an erotic fascination with themselves as women. This idea runs counter to the belief, held by many men who decide to live as women, that they are the victims of a biological mistake — in essence, women trapped in men’s bodies. Dr. Bailey described the alternate theory, which is based on Canadian studies done in the 1980s and 1990s, in part by telling the stories of several transgender women he met through a mutual acquaintance. In the book, he gave them pseudonyms, like “Alma” and “Juanita.”
Other scientists praised the book as a compelling explanation of the science. The Lambda Literary Foundation, an organization that promotes gay, bisexual and transgender literature, nominated the book for an award.
But days after the book appeared, Lynn Conway, a prominent computer scientist at the University of Michigan, sent out an e-mail message comparing Dr. Bailey’s views to Nazi propaganda. She and other transgender women found the tone of the book abusive, and the theory of motivation it presented to be a recipe for further discrimination.

A tale of the cherished freedom of academia to think as the left does.
The National Post weighs in.

Britain’s descent into a surveillance state has been one of the creepier developments over the last twenty years. Just when you think it can’t get worse it does.
Britons To Be Watched By Autonomous Hovering Police Drones.

An Insider’s Account of Friday’s Cairo Debriefing;

It is now abundantly clear that the core leadership of Canada’s so-called anti-war movement consists of obsessive Israel-haters, apologists for theocratic fascism, and admirers of the death cult Hamas and the totalitarian Hezbollah.
Nobody can accuse me of “smearing the peace movement” anymore. The leadership of the Canadian Peace Alliance, the Toronto Stop the War Coalition and other such groups now openly boasts of its progress in converting the “antiwar” movement in Canada into a joint venture with the Islamist far right.
Last Friday in Toronto, these people made a full and self-congratulatory accounting of themselves and the promises they made at the recent “anti-war” convergence in Cairo (“Towards an International Alliance Against Imperialism and Zionism”), attended by some of the world’s most foul jihadists, Islamists and Jewish-conspiracy fetishists.

“When I show that cartoon to my students, they’re amazed at such open anti-Catholic bigotry. Later they can’t believe that people might have voted against Al Smith in 1928 simply because he was a Catholic or even JFK in 1960. Little did I think that we would see such religious bigotry again in newspapers
in 2007.”

The Don Imus debacle did not happen by chance;

Media Matters had a staffer whose job was to record Don Imus and listen for gaffes. He found one, alerted the media, and the rest is history. For icing on the cake, the Soros-funded group tried to convince everyone that Imus is a conservative. Imus is to Media Matters’ political right, but then again so is the entire country.

More at Hot Air.

Yet another shocking and yet somehow not so surprising move in Britain:

A town is being stripped of scores of public sector jobs because its residents are “too white and British”.
The Prison Service is relocating the posts to a nearby city where there are more ethnic minorities.

Official multiculturalism at work.

You might be thinking that opinion has never really been subject to censorship in Canada unless it crosses the line of hateful speech, decency or the promotion of unlawful activity.

Or, as it turns out, renewable fuels.
An update – Jim Pattison responds;

An error was made within our Telecaster Clearance group, by an individual analyst, in asking for copyright compliance beyond our mandate. This error was corrected, and the commercials in question were approved Monday afternoon after some required revisions (not affecting copyright) were made.

“It’s not anti-semitic to criticize Israel.”

Watch closely now as the “jews” join we “rednecks” as the newest category of “unCanadian”.
(comment #27 by Jingle on a thread titled “Boycott Indigo”)

F*cking assholes. If the murder of thousands of Lebanese and the destruction of Lebanon is necessary to their safely-esconced privilaged rich asses, they can get the f*ck out of my country and move to theirs. Assholes. They should be deported to Israel, given a helmet, and sent to clear out a Hizballah tunnel if they are so goddamned firm in their convictions. Goddamn pieces of liebermanesque chickenshit.

Via commentor “Bertski”, who provides the translation;

Accordin[g] to the post, when Canadian citizens express support for a Jewish homeland, they cease to be Canadian citizens and are relegated to the status of “Jew” (Jingles says they need to be deported to “their” country). But the extreme left at Babble also do not see Israel as a legitimate state nor do they see a need for a Jewish state. So what to do with all these second class Canadians relegated to “Jew” status? 6 million isn’t enough for cretins like Jingles.

What to do, indeed?