Free Speech Lives Another Day In BC
photo credit: Better Than Bacon
Mark Steyn and Macleans have won the case that Dr. Habib, Mr. Awan and the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations brought to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
Maclean’s published an article by Mark, where he made the case of a “The New World Order”.
It’s worthwhile to note the basis of the complaint:
THE ARTICLE WHICH GAVE RISE TO THESE COMPLAINTS
- We are a people that won’t multiply can’t go forth or go anywhere. Those who do will shape the age we live in. Demographic decline and the unsustainability of the social democratic state are closely related.
[16] The essence of the author’s argument, as it relates to Muslims, is that the Muslim population of Europe, through higher birthrates, is expanding at a much faster rate than domestic European populations. Muslim populations are, as a result, younger.
[17] Second, Europe’s reliance on social democracy has made European populations weak and vulnerable. As the author puts it: “Islam has youth and will, Europe has age and welfare.” The essence of this theme is that the rise of social democratic states has led to a complacency which will allow Muslims to influence European laws and culture.
[18] Third, the author claims that “Islam has serious global ambitions and [Islam] forms the primal, core identity of most of its adherents.” The essence of this theme is that at its core, Islam seeks world religious domination and that to its adherents Islam is more important than national identity and loyalty.
[19] Fourth, the author argues that “[t]he modern multicultural state is too watery a concept to bind huge numbers of immigrants to the land of their nominal citizenship. So they look elsewhere and find the jihad.”
The essence of this theme is that Muslim immigrants do not identify with their European countries of residence and that violence or armed struggle is more likely to bind them.
[20] Finally, “[o]n the continent the successor population is already in place and the only question is how bloody the transfer of real estate will be. … Native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.”
All of the above sounds rational… I can’t see the hate.
Here’s the paragraph that offended:
“We’re the ones who will change you,” the Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. “Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children.” As he summed it up: “Our way of thinking will
prove more powerful than yours.”
That’s right – a quote from a Norwegian imam…
The scary part is that this case even made it before the BC Human Rights Tribunal. The tribunal in BC has somehow morphed into a new role of “BC’s Speech police”.
Canada’s Human Rights Commissions were established in the 1970s to address case-by-case discrimination in areas such as housing and employment.
Now the commissions and their tribunals are using their powers to silence citizens who say or write anything that doesn’t pass the political correctness test.
It was no accident that CAIR chose BC’s Human Rights Tribunal.
Good news is that Steyn won… the bad news is that CAIR is on the look-out for it’s next case.
Be careful.
