Translation: “EEK! A WITCH!! I knews it all along I did! I knows witchery when I sees it.”

You’re really out of ideas, huh?

Do you have anything to contribute besides the ad-homs? Maybe a comment on the idea that the right to free thought and free expression are more important than partisan politics?

What exactly is your own definition of “islamophobic”?

But, uh, man oh man.

So it turns out that T. Thwim, Ti-Guy, et al. really HAVE been debating card-carrying Islamophobes & their fans for two days. And I was wondering why it felt like talking to a brick wall. Well, click “Annie Lessard” and pass the hat.

Jeepers.

You really have to wonder about anyone who seems to make it a full time obsession to plant lies and exagerations about these 2 men who together have done more battling hatred in Canada than Ezra can ever hope to do. And perhaps that’s the rub, Ezra is jealous of real Jewish leaders knowing his buffoonery is laughed at by the mainstream of the Jewish community.

Also, as I mentioned, political correctness is not as strong here as it is in the rest of Canada. Various outfits of the marxist-islamist alliance tried to have the hearings shut down, and some in the Anglo press expressed dismay at how candid citizens expressed themselves at the hearings.

Bouchard and Taylor acknowledged that there are not many countries in the world where a open debate on such sensitive issue could be held peacefully. This is democracy in action at its best. We need to fight to protect it.

Well, it’s nice to hear at least one government in this country cares about the rights of its citizens.

An Act to amend the Code of Civil Procedure to prevent abusive use of the courts and promote freedom of expression and citizen participation in public debate

http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/38legislature1/Projets-loi/Publics/08-a099.htm

It will pass this Fall, all parties being in agreement. The Bill applies only to regular courts of law, not the Human Rights commission, unfortunately.

to promote freedom of expression and prevent abusive use of the courts, in particular the use of court proceedings to thwart the right of citizens to participate in public debate.

For that purpose, the bill allows the courts to promptly dismiss a proceeding that is abusive. It specifies what may constitute an abuse of procedure and authorizes the reversal of the burden of proof if the abuse of procedure is obvious.

The bill allows the courts to order the payment of a provision for costs, declare that a legal action is abusive, condemn a party to pay the fees and extrajudicial costs of the other party, and order a party to pay punitive damages.

Well, if wanting to be a free man in a country of free men makes me a zealot, then I guess I’m guilty as charged.

What I don’t understand, Jack, is why you and your comrades above are so eager to have others control your thoughts and expressions.

A young Muslim guy published a poem calling non Muslim women in Quebec (and non veiled women) “drunken sluts”. Of course, there was a public outcry and he was later ridiculed by talk show hosts. He is suing the journalist plus the TV station for defamation. He also filed a complaint to the Press Council, claiming he was traumatized by the reaction to his poem. He never apologized for slandering us.

He later organized a delegation of Muslim women to visit Herouxville and lecture them about “tolerance”…. People in Herouxville may be hilbillies, but they know a hypocrit when they meet one.

To me, Quebec’s decision to lauch the Bouchard-Taylor commision demonstrated how juvenile the rest of Canada is in comparison. They gave everyone, no matter how outrageous their views, a public venue to voice their concerns. It was like an province wide venting period.

Of course, in the rest of Cananda we could never have something similar. The idea behind the HRCs (and the hatephobes that defend them)is that Canandians are so feeble minded and impressionable that mere exposure to anything remotely hateful will turn the whole lot of us us into violent rascists – eager to commit unspeakable acts against the first member of a minority group foolish enough to cross our path.

This is, of course, complete foolishness. I say the rest of Cananda should follow the Quebec example and air our dirty laundry in the open air of public discourse rather than use the state to silence dissidents.

“We don’t burn down embassies, behead people or threathen to kill anyone.”

Indeed. In Hérouxville it is actually a crime to burn down an embassy or behead someone. It is very much the most progressive township in the country.

I’d like to say how wonderful it is to see xenophobic paranoia bringing people together like this across the linguistic divide. These are indeed universal, serious issues, passionately embraced by people with serious issues everywhere.

“But what starts in Quebec won’t end here. The debate will spread, and we should be glad of that. For all the rhetorical stock Canadians have put in multiculturalism over the years, the fact remains that it is fundamentally incoherent:How do you intellectually defend a doctrine that preaches “tolerance” toward imported cultures that, themselves, are fundamentally intolerant toward women, gays, heretics and infidels?”

“Giggle all you like at the bumpkins of Herouxville. At least, they’re smart enough to know this question can’t be answered. Maybe when the rest of us anglos get over our own guilty Western hangups, we’ll come to the same realization.”

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=248178ce-db43-4f7d-9370-f80dd141b69c&p=1

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/080609/d080609a.htm

Quebec is the province – and by far – with the lowest rate of hate-crimes in Canada. And Muslims are – and by far – the least vicitimized. Data do not support accusations of rampant hysterical islamophobia.

The Bouchard-Taylor commission was an opportunity for a national conversation, and I can tell you that no violence was related to the hearings. We debate, talk, blog and write to editors. We don’t burn down embassies, behead people or threathen to kill anyone.

Political correctness is not our cup of tea. One also has to understand our special sense of humour.

LOL The first one was better!

I’m well aware of the story; The community in question was tired of being dictated to by a group of immigrants. Said immigrants were dictating that the community needed to change this way and change that way and the community got fed up. They put their foot down and told the immigrants that if they wanted to live in the community that they’d have to adapt.

The same would be expected of any Canadian who moved to a foreign country.

How is that, in any way, relevant to the discussion at hand?

http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/spip.php?article502

http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/spip.php?breve570

We are connected to the francophone blogosphere and you would be amazed at how (largely thanks to our site), Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are heroes admired in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. When the French version of Steyn’s book was released, it was BIG NEWS all over those blogs.

With cyberfriends of the francophone blogosphere, we translated and produced sub-titles of a fantastic interview of Mark Steyn. We are in the process of doing same for the YouTube clips of Ezra’s audition before the Alberta human rights commission.

We all do this on our spare time, because the stakes are so high.

He’s already consumed options ‘a’ through ‘c’. Do you think he’ll venture into virgin territory or choose a path of strategic re-use?

Before calling me “racist” or “bigot”, look at my picture and that of the blog’s director (I am the one on the right). Justin Trudeau says we are protected by the Canadian Charter­. So please stop offending me!

http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/spip.php?breve570

While you’re at it James, check the source. Yup, I’m guilty of outing pedophiles and their supporters. I take no shame in that even if Ti-Guy thinks I should be leaving them alone because they’re ‘only expressing a different lifestyle choice’…

Option ‘b’ this time Ti-Guy? Like I said, you’re too predictable. Here’s another banana.

Oh, voyons-donc. Tu me prends pour qui, toi?

I guess you would know something about totalitarian ideologies, though. How’s La Charte these days? Or are we supposed to not talk about that anymore, lest it get the anglos all fired up and lose focus on the …*duh duh duh*…Common Enenmy.

*snort*

For our web site, we use “islamolucides” instead of “islamophobe”. We do not have an irrational fear of the unknown. Rather, we educate ourselves and our readers about islamism, and consciously reject its tenets as incompatible with the values of freedom we defend. Religions and ideologies are not human beings, they don’t have human dignity. Criticising or opposing them is not a manifestation of hate or racism. It’s sound rationality.

I’m with you here, but the hysterics really make you look foolish and weak. I have confidence that our legal traditions, our secularism and our respect for diversity can withstand these “threats” and I defend them robustly. All you people are doing is shrieking and some of the people you’re finding coming cause with are out-and-out racists and bigots.

Hey James Goneaux…if you’re looking for a laugh, google “Richard Evans” and NAMBLA.

…and yes, Mr. Wells, it’s still going rather well.

Ezra is a typical schoolyard bully. He attacks the person not the idea. Whether its farber, Warren Kinsella, Richard Warman and any others who disagree with him, his silly childlike behaviour has done the cause of civil libertarians like Alan Borovoy incredible harm.

For our web site, we use “islamolucides” instead of “islamophobe”. We do not have an irrational fear of the unknown. Rather, we educate ourselves and our readers about islamism, and consciously reject its tenets as incompatible with the values of freedom we defend. Religions and ideologies are not human beings, they don’t have human dignity. Criticising or opposing them is not a manifestation of hate or racism. It’s sound rationality.

A number of contributors to our site are immigrants from Middle Eastern countries who are well aware of the threat we are facing, they fled their respective home countries because of it, and are fantastic sources of information to help raise awareness among our readers.

Funny: he’s dropped all pretence of nuance. Must be getting tired to come up with recycled snark every time and make it sound fresh. So it’s now straight to the neo-nazi gibes. Nice on a blog entry about a Jew, eh?

Amigo, you’re too predictable…

Glad to see that, like a good monkey, you chose option ‘a’. Here’s your banana…

J’ai les larmes aux yeux…c’est de toute beauté…

Vive le Canada uni!

However, I will research this matter.

But in the fetid cesspool that the speech nazis have created, the phony right not to be offended now trumps free expression. Since these elitists now attempt to regulate emotions like “hate”, they have moved beyond the realm of objectively enforcable law into the nightmare of chaos.

Their lame argument seems to be that now poor people have the opportunity to help the bureaucrats play god with the lives those who refuse to worship at the Lib alter of multiculturism.

It astounds me that any principled, intelligent person would want to live in a decadent society like that. But they seem quite proud of the capricious rubble which used to be a fair legal system.

Those of you, and (scrolling up) there are far too many (alas), who cannot distinguish “defending another person’s right to say something outrageous” and “supporting / agreeing with the outrageous statement” are beyond help. Please get help, you’ll feel much better, then get back to us, ok?

Minor quibble… You correctly indicated that those folks are beyond help and then suggested that they seek help. If they’re beyond help, why should they waste their time and ours seeking it? A better suggestion, in my mind, would be that they seek resident status in China. Judging by the political climate there, and the positions taken by many above, it’d be a perfect fit.

How can you possibly favor copyright protection for intellectual property? Aren’t you a “free-speech absolutist”? ;-)

Annie,

I hope Luiza sifts through a lot of the crap from people with obvious agendas above to see your post. As Rex Murphy said on the CBC, this is the most under reported story in Canada, not just Quebec. Keep up the good work!

I would characterize Ann Coulter as somewhat of a bigot. I also find her extremely smart, witty, and generally honest, unlike say the Libs’ hero Michael Moore.

John Walker Lindh was a traitor, who was captured as he was fighting against his own countrymen, and supporting their killers, even after they had directly attacked our homeland. In earlier wars, traitors were routinely executed. I have little problem with her suggestion, except the part about using his execution as intimidation of liberals. If that offends you feel free to ignore my harmless patter.

Ann Coulter has often gone over the top with gratuitously bigoted statements, and is now being shunned in many Conservative circles such as not being invited to CPAC this time; they got Mark Steyn instead. So I would say yes: freedom of speech works.