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Posted at 10:45am on Jun. 13, 2008 The New York Times on the First Amendment
A Case From Canada Presents Some Sticky Wickets
By blackhedd
If you haven’t read anything by Canadian journalist and author Mark Steyn, your life is the poorer for it. He’s marvelously witty and fun to read. He’s also one of the loudest proponents of the view that Western cultures, particularly in Europe, are allowing themselves to be slowly extinguished through a refusal to confront Islamization.
Steyn is a disciplined and careful reporter. Everything he writes is backed up by research and reasoned argument. He doesn’t commit libel.
But that’s not good enough in Canada anymore. Two years ago, he published an article in Maclean’s which recapitulated themes from his book America Alone. But it’s against the law in British Columbia to say things that Muslims don’t want to hear, regardless of how objectively truthful, well-supported and reasonable they are.
So Steyn is now personally facing criminal jeopardy.
But of course, this is of no interest to America’s arbiters of taste in the mainstream press. However, they’re extremely interested in another aspect of the story.
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