The columnist Mark Steyn, who was hauled before a Canadian human rights commission for criticizing Islam, was vindicated, relunctantly, by the panel.
Canada is still a free country
July 1st, 2008 | International, Islam
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Good result but the fact that they have a HRC that is charged with deciding if you are guilty of hate speech is antithetical to freedom.
As I understand it, Steyn still faces similar charges in British Columbia.
What Joe says. As long as the HRC is allowed to persecute people for so-called hate speech, Canada is not a free country.
As noted above, Steyn and McLeans are still facing other HRC tribunals. Canada is NOT a free country. One HRC backed down due to fear of an uproar (and indeed an RCMP investigation is said to be under way). But it is still the case that that pastor was convicted and the HRC demanded that he renounce his faith. There are still fines and many other cases.
It is still the case, as I understand it, that the HRCs have never acquited anyone. In this instance, they just decided not to continue pursuing the case.
Yes, there are still Human Rights Tribunals to hear the case against Steyn (whose book America Alone is a good read). The Human Rights Tribunlas here in my country are a joke. A number of years ago I asked a few questions about a finding of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal that found a man guity of exposing or potentially exposing homosexuals to hatred, etc. for some pamphlets he had distributed. Now in all honesty they were not in the best taste - but he had quoted soem biblical texts an had used the term sodomite in the literature and these were put forward as evidence. When I asked abou this I was told that the Human Rights Tribunal is a quasi-judicial body and if I wanted an interpretation I needed to get a lawyer. I was not content with this so I wrote my Minister of Justice and was told the same thing. So, the situation is scary. These Tribunals can make decisions that truly effect the lives of our country but do not need to explain their findings in any way to us. The next time I preach on Romans 1 I will simply assume I am committing a hate crime according to these Tribunals and ask for God’s protection.
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