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Bigger than Ezra II

by Luiza Ch. Savage on Monday, August 4, 2008 12:01pm - 0 Comments

Some more discussion of the defamation of religions article over at the American law professor blog The Volokh Conspiracy.

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  • Bill Simpson

    Wow! This is the thread that won’t die!

    We have gone over the differences between libel, slander, incitement to violence etc. and free speech.

    We have enumerated the sad lack of process within the HRC’s in accepting and prosecuting nuisance cases.

    We have had to listen to your complain that our free speech somehow impinges on your freedom of conscience and belief, though I can’t see for the life of me how that may be.

    We have agreed that much of free speech is disagreeable and even offensive.

    We have agreed also that you don’t have to agree with Mark Steyn and that you may find him a bigot and a chauvinist.

    Ti-Guy – what we want you to do is to stop trying to defend the use of government tribunals to govern what we believe is free speech.

    That’s all.

  • Ti-Guy

    Islamists and Leftists have in common a desire to control everyone. They resent freedom. That’s why lefties love unbridled multiculturalism so much.

    Ah, there we are. Finally. I was afraid I’d have to apply for a research grant to spend the time required to properly assess the issue Mme Lessard is highlighting here. Thank God, with this short statement, she’s told me everything I need to know.

  • Ti-Guy

    Ti-Guy – what we want you to do is to stop trying to defend the use of government tribunals to govern what we believe is free speech.

    Well, it’s clear I won’t do this. Got anything else?

  • http://www.pointdebasculecanada.ca Annie Lessard

    Ti-Guy, for example, I don’t want my tax dollars paying for intellectual masturbation like this example below. This is what I call “reformating” Canadians so that they never ever offend anyone.

    Link to the site of Foreign Affairs Canada on an interview of Patrice Brodeur on Religion and Canadian Foreign Policy.

    Patrice Brodeur is professor and Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the Université de Montréal

    “I teach at the Université de Montréal and my research topics include the intersection of contemporary Islam, pluralism and globalization—particularly, I would say, the more economic and political currents of globalization”.

    “First, I think it is very important that Canada’s foreign policy not emphasize just the religious dimension. What we need to promote in our policy is a multidimensional approach, one that can incorporate multiple ethnic, linguistic, religious, ideological and professional identities, social classes, etc., in such a way that this multifaceted approach makes everyone feel included, at ease and, above all, respected, whatever their own composition of identities”.

    “…this is within each of us as human beings, since each of us has multiple identities. We have to balance them and make them complementary so we can be better human beings. Also at the level of our respective groups, where there is always internal diversity, we must continually seek to make the different positions complementary”.

    Québec and the ROC have a different view of multiculturalism. What’s the problem?

  • http://www.pointdebasculecanada.ca Annie Lessard

    And by the way, this Patrice Brodeur is in favor of restrictions to freedom of speech so as not to “offend” anyone. He sides with the Canadian Islamic Congress on this issue.

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