Conservative columnist Mark Steyn is in legal trouble in Canada because he has been critical of [radical] Muslims, and Canada's "human rights" commission has deemed his language somehow intolerably bigoted. Canada doesn't have a 1st Amendment, and somehow (I know it seems way wacky to us Yanks) a Steyn-scribed column in MacCleans brought a complaint to the British Columbia Human Rights Commission (a misnomer if there ever was one). In other words, Steyn is in hot water because he's not a Lawrence O'Donnell.
The media (ours and elsewhere) and Canada itself suffer from O'Donnell-ing. As Steyn points out in The Corner today, check out how various outlets have "reported" on an "honor killing" of a [Muslim] daughter by her father (in Toronto). The daughter refused to wear a hijab.
The Washington Post headline: Canadian Teen Dies; Father Charged Oh, she just "died." Got it.
Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress: "I don't want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue... It is a teenager issue." Elmasry, by the way, is the one who filed the complaint against Steyn. Gotta love it.
Canada's Number One news anchor Lloyd Robertson: "Her neck was compressed, to the point she couldn't breathe." This takes semantics to a whole new level.
The Montreal Gazette: Muhammed Parvez might have been fighting a losing battle trying to make Aqsa wear a hijab, but that hardly sets him apart. Few are the fathers, of any faith or none, who have not clashed with their adolescent daughters over something...
Indeed. I've clashed with my teenage daughter quite often over just the last few months, mind you. But y'know what? The thought of strangling her -- oh, excuse me, "compressing her neck" -- NEVER F***ING ENTERED MY MIND!!!!
I was vey impressed with Mr. O'Donnells remarks about Mormonism to Pat Buchanan. I am an independent conservative who is very disappointed with how the conservative radio media, with exception to Glen Beck is treating this. Nobody wants to really dig in deep on Mormonism. They, like Pat Buchanan just shrug it off. How does he know that Mitt Romney is a good man. Everything you said about the Mormon beliefs is true. And there are elements of this religion that need to be understood by the electorate. First and foremost, it is based on freemasonry; which is also a cult. Anyone familiar with the writings of Albert Pike is aware that it's goal is to end civil governments and bring about a global government. Mormonism like all other distorted versions of Christianity has an agenda aimed at creating a one world religion. In the last verse of the Bible in the book of Revelation, Jesus says that anyone who adds to or takes away from the writings of this work is doomed. Mr. romney knows this. And he knows that Joseph Smith not only rewrote scriptures, he designed the Book of Mormon because the Bible, God's book was'nt good enough for this fraudulent narcisstic egomaniac. Mormonism is a cash cow front for the new world order. Mitt Romney is part of it and has a dark hidden agenda.
Posted by: leo at December 16, 2007 01:32 PM