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May 02, 2008

You see much, Eomer son of Eomund. Too much.

Mark Steyn comments on the latest demands of the Canadian Islamic Congress conference.

I see. So this is how it works, is it? A "human rights" judge orders an ostensibly independent privately-owned magazine to print five pages of Islamist propaganda.

As I always say, I can't speak for Maclean's, but, were I the publisher, I'd say: Go ahead, make my day. You'll order us to print the turgid drivel ordered up by Mr Joseph, and we'll say no. What then? You get the RCMP to kick Maclean's doors down. At that point, even the Dominion's somnolent media might wake up to the kind of Canada Elmo and his enablers are constructing. I wonder if Jack Layton, apparently auditioning for chief eunuch of the new caliphate, even read the dossier of Maclean's systemic Islamophobia before giving Elmo the tongue bath.

Agreed. Though it is also possible Jack Layton agrees with a Canada where freedom is limited to whatever these "human rights" tribunals allow. Layton's sniveling, shameful endorsement of clerical fascism is most probably also strategic. There is a long list of interests still under the impression they can ride this tiger: They are wrong. There is a widespread and totally unacknowledged racism on "the left" preventing them from seeing the danger for what it is, from taking seriously the notion the men in the quaint hats mean exactly they say and will enforce their evil law at their first opportunity. They are going to get us all killed.

Related: Olivia Chow complains women are still subject to imprisonment and rape in Afghanistan. Her solution: "mediation". Better this, she suggests, than to continue our "losing war" and putting Canadians "in harm's way". This despite the utter failure of her approach in Iran, in Darfur, in Tibet, in East Timor and on and on and on from the 1930s until today; the utter failure of her supposed concern to save a single woman from eternal submission and degradation.

Tell you what, Olivia, nothing is stopping you from mediating with the Taliban. If you are right, you will save Afghan women from bondage and free Canada's troops from a task for which the Canadian "left" will never thank them. Of course, if I am right, you will be taken hostage and beheaded unless Canadian forces and our allies can save you from the consequences of your own catastrophic stupidity. Not to worry. You have no intention of putting your words to the test.

Update: To highlight a comment to Yoni Goldstein writing for the National Post.

While Macleans did what most would have expected them to do anyways,it should be noted that the Canadian Muslim Congress -CMC, (whose founder is Tarek Fatah, a personal hero of mine) continues to speak against egregious displays by the Canadian Islamic Congress and show more bravery in one statement than any freedom-of-the-press action by Macleans. In Canada, the fight against Muslim fundamentalist tyranny is being waged most valiantly by the CMC. We should be highlighting that work as mush as anything Macleans has done.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 2, 2008 07:33 AM

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That is exactly right. The Dipper contingent wants somebody to negotiate with the bad guys and make this all go away, but volunteers are in rather short supply.

If Jack and Olivia undertake to negotiate with the Taliban (in the Taliban's own spiritual homeland of Kandahar province), then I will undertake to donate money to their posthumous political campaigns.

Posted by: Chris Taylor at May 2, 2008 02:25 PM

I fear that Wormtongue and his masters will win this time in the fight for the West.

Posted by: dpatten at May 2, 2008 02:47 PM

Ghost of a flea

May 02, 2008

You see much, Eomer son of Eomund. Too much.

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