I’m now thoroughly embarrassed to be French Canadian
Canadians beware, there is a malignant Cancer within your midst, & it seeks to devour your freedoms & liberties. No matter whether you agree with the content of media or entertainment or what have you, censorship is a dangerous double edged sword, & freedom of speech is a right for which many have been willing to fight & die for. Now the Canadian HRC “Human Rights Commission” has apparently abandoned it’s own name, & is attacking the God given free speech rights of it’s own citizens, by punishing a conservative publisher for republishing the cartoons that were the center of the Danish cartoon controversy.
A trip to the CHRC website seems to indicate that they are pretty well outside of the boundries of their original purpose in pursuing this complaint in the first place.
Syed Soharwardy, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, filed a complaint against editor Ezra Levant, after the Western Standard published cartoons that are alleged to have depicted Muhammad, which included a Muslim man with a bomb-shaped turban, and the commission is now “investigating.” (Again, as if they have a right to..) In many ways they are Canada’s version of another organization that’s gone terrible astray in the United States, the ACLU.
Mr. Levant called his appearance before the human rights commission “an interrogation.”
“To me, this is offensive,” he said.
“A secular government bureaucracy has essentially been hijacked by a radical Muslim imam,” he said. “It’s being used to further his fatwa against these cartoons.”
“We have a great tradition of free speech in Canada,” he said.
“My freedom to publish a cartoon that some radical Muslim imam doesn’t like, well that’s the free west for ya.”
People in Canada & the United States alike, had better wake up to the agenda of Radical Muslims, that is to impose their laws & values on the rest of us. On the following video you can see that Muslims in this country admit that they want to impose their values on the rest of the country, & there are clearly plenty of moonbats who are willing to drown out the speech of anyone who opposes them. It’s more proof to me that the only kind of “Liberty” liberals in the United States & Canada embrace, is the kind of “liberty” they approve of. That’s not liberty at all, now is it..
We cannot afford as a society to leave Mr. Ezra Levant alone in this battle to protect his freedom, & we must all heed the following words from Pastor Martin Niemoller’s address to the US Congress in 1968, the year of my birth.
“When Hitler attacked the Jews
I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,
I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned.
And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists,
I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned.
Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church —
and there was nobody left to be concerned.”
When Radical Islam attacks the free speech of journalists with the help of the Canadian or any other government, we had all better be very concerned.
More on this story here from Michelle Malkin (another voice of reason.)
~ Dan Lee
P.S. On an interesting note about the Canadian Human Rights Commission, if you click on their complaint link, it’s broken.. I guess that kind of speech is also discouraged. Go Figure.. I expected nothing more from them.
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