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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 113184" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>Yes, if you notice, the Texas paper avoided the issue too. A "domestic dispute" with a "strict father".</p><p></p><p>In Canada, the newsmagazine <em>Macleans</em> has been hauled before the Canadian Human Rights Commission by the Canadian Islamic Congress for publishing an excerpt from the book "America Alone", charging the magazine with inciting Islamophobia. One particular quote in the excerpt, cited in the complaint, actually came from a radical Swedish imam. Let me repeat that. According to the complaint, accurately quoting an Islamic cleric is inciting Islamophobia. In other words, truth is no defense. In Europe, intimidation by mob violence incited by radical imams has the same effect -- several European governments have passed limitations on insulting religion as a result, and everybody knows which religion it is that may not be insulted (hint: it is not Christianity, which is insulted with impunity). And in the USA, imams staged a disruption at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport so that they could bring a racial profiling complaint (when did religion become a racial characteristic?).</p><p></p><p>Nuisance complaints such as these are designed and orchestrated to silence critics. They have no merit, but even if eventually dismissed, as they generally are, authors, editors and publishers will stop and think twice as to whether they really want to have to spend a lot of time and money defending themselves. Far too often they take the easy route and just avoid certain topics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 113184, member: 3485"] Yes, if you notice, the Texas paper avoided the issue too. A "domestic dispute" with a "strict father". In Canada, the newsmagazine [I]Macleans[/I] has been hauled before the Canadian Human Rights Commission by the Canadian Islamic Congress for publishing an excerpt from the book "America Alone", charging the magazine with inciting Islamophobia. One particular quote in the excerpt, cited in the complaint, actually came from a radical Swedish imam. Let me repeat that. According to the complaint, accurately quoting an Islamic cleric is inciting Islamophobia. In other words, truth is no defense. In Europe, intimidation by mob violence incited by radical imams has the same effect -- several European governments have passed limitations on insulting religion as a result, and everybody knows which religion it is that may not be insulted (hint: it is not Christianity, which is insulted with impunity). And in the USA, imams staged a disruption at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport so that they could bring a racial profiling complaint (when did religion become a racial characteristic?). Nuisance complaints such as these are designed and orchestrated to silence critics. They have no merit, but even if eventually dismissed, as they generally are, authors, editors and publishers will stop and think twice as to whether they really want to have to spend a lot of time and money defending themselves. Far too often they take the easy route and just avoid certain topics. [/QUOTE]
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