Soft targets

Mr. Steyn, on the CHRC's decision not to uphold a complaint against a hatemongering Quebec Imam:

...I support the right of Imam al-Hayiti to say exactly what he likes. It's far better to let these guys sound off and clear up any confusion. But I'm puzzled by the decision of Commissar Lynch's enforcers: If it's okay for Imam al-Hayiti to say homosexuals and lesbians should be "exterminated", why is the Reverend Stephen Boissoin under a lifetime speech ban merely for objecting to gay marriage? Why are bald statements of Islamic supremacism cool when an imam makes them but the subject of a week-long trial in Vancouver for an infidel magazine that quotes such an imam?

There's no logical answer except the one we already knew - that, while the bullies of the "human rights" regime are happy to beat up penniless pastors in Alberta and while Lucy Warman, the CJC and other cardboard crusaders get their jollies hunting down every birdbrained "Nazi" posting witless drivel on unread websites from his mum's basement, they have no desire to tangle with the most explicit and well-funded source of "intolerance" in today's world. If the point of the Lynch mob's draconian powers is to protect "human rights", they're useless: "honor killings" will become all but routine but they'll still be obsessing about some adolescent with a swastika tattoo and second-hand jackboots. What a bunch of fairies. [uh oh - DP]

(PS By "fairies", I don't mean perverted homosexuals who spread disorder and should be exterminated - which is now apparently a CHRC-approved contribution to public debate. By "fairies", I mean gutless wimps whose only interest is in protecting their own racket until the present unwanted scrutiny goes away.)

Damian P.

Posted by damian at December 17, 2008 12:26 PM