Godless And Free by Pat Condell

Author:Pat Condell [Condell, Pat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Human Rights, Faith, Freedom, Free Speech, Christianity, Atheism, Religion, Islam
ISBN: 9780956811608
Publisher: Pat Condell
Published: 2010-10-21T22:00:00+00:00

34.

O Dhimmi Canada

January 19, 2008

Well, once again free speech is under attack from a small group of Muslim fanatics, this time in Canada, where Maclean’s magazine is being hauled before a couple of laughably named “human rights commissions” for printing an article about the threat of militant Islam to our freedom in the West, and our bone-headed complacency in the face of it.

A group of law students saw an opportunity to be offended by this, because they’ve been waiting for just such an opportunity, of course, and they pounced on it like pigs on truffles

And they don’t want justice here, because they know that justice would tell them to go and screw themselves. What they want is legal victory, a completely different thing. And they’ve got that before the case is even heard, because even if it’s thrown out it will still incur great expense, for the defendants, for the magazine, not the plaintiffs – it will cost them precisely nothing.

And, if precedent is anything to go by, it will be decided, not on whether there was any truth in the article, but on whether anyone’s precious feelings were hurt, or might have been hurt, and how certain members of the unelected commission feel about that.

This case is important to all of us in the West, because if this is tolerated it will start to happen everywhere. Newspapers and magazines that are even mildly critical of political Islam will be under pressure to censor themselves or face another expensive law suit, brought at no cost, and with the complacent connivance of a guilt-ridden patronising liberal establishment of self-haters and hand-wringers who are so ashamed of their own culture they can’t stop apologising for it, and who, in doing so, give us every reason to be ashamed.

So what if a few fanatics are offended? It won’t do them any harm. It will give them a idea of how the rests feel when we are confronted with cases like this.

On the other hand (and let’s face it, there’s always another hand, unless you’re a Saudi Arabian shoplifter, of course) hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I’ve heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it. So I’m not a bit surprised that Canadians are sympathetic, because they’re a very warm and welcoming people, and I know this because I lived and worked there for several years.

So I also know that they’re not fools, and they can see they’re being taken for a ride here, that their well-meant humanitarian laws are being twisted and used against them by people to whom the very idea of human rights is blasphemy.

They can see that bringing this case is nothing but an act of legal terrorism, a lowdown dirty little stunt with no moral weight whatsoever, and that those who indulge it and who connive with it are not only making fools of themselves, they’re making a fool of their country, when they’d be far better employed focussing on the genuine human rights of young girls shipped off to forced marriages, or murdered for refusing to go.

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