Ruling[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine&action=edit§ion=4> ]
On October 10, 2008, the tribunal dismissed the complaint, stating that the Maclean's article did not violate the province's human rights law. The tribunal stated that the article contained historical, religious and factual inaccuracies, relied on common Muslim stereotypes and tried to "rally public opinion by exaggeration and causing the reader to fear Muslims." However, they also ruled that the article was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt.[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine#cite_note-npruling-12> The Tribunal stated that "With all its inaccuracies and hyperbole, [the article] has resulted in political debate which, in our view, [B. C.'s hate speech human rights law] was never intended to suppress. In fact, as the evidence in this case amply demonstrates, the debate has not been suppressed and the concerns about the impact of hate speech silencing a minority have not been borne out."[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine#cite_note-npruling-12> Comments following the ruling[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine&action=edit§ion=5> ] Faisal Joseph, lawyer for the CIC, stated that he may appeal because the decision "sends the wrong message." In a statement, Joseph wrote that "it is now acceptable for some columnists and media in this country to cloak freedom to hate in the mantle of freedom of speech." However, Joseph also stated that: Our objective of exposing Maclean's and Mark Steyn for their falsehoods, and misrepresentation and stereotyping of Muslims has been achieved. We are delighted the tribunal has discredited the content of the articles that Maclean's and Mark Steyn have been publishing about Islam and Muslims. We also appreciate the tribunal's citing of the vitriolic blogs related to the Maclean's article as some evidence that the article exposes Muslims to hatred and contempt...On the whole, however, the case was a leap forward in the struggle against media-propagated Islamophobia. The fact that human rights commissions in Ontario and B. C. have recognized the role of Canada's national news magazine in promoting societal intolerance towards Muslim Canadians and in publishing false and exaggerated material highlights the urgent need for editors and newscasters to critically examine how they represent Muslims in their news and editorial coverage.[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine#cite_note-npruling-12> Mark Steyn <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn>, who wrote the offending article, stated that that a lesser-known writer without a media conglomerate in his corner probably would have been convicted, adding that For me the problem is not the book, the problem for me is Canada, and I will never think of the deranged dominion quite the same way again. It has made me understand just how easily and incrementally free societies, often for the most fluffy reasons, slip into a kind of soft, beguiling totalitarianism. I don't understand why they lack the cojones to find us guilty and that "The only reason to go through all this nonsense is to get to the stage where you can appeal it to a real court, and if necessary up to the Supreme Court".[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine#cite_note-npruling-12> Steyn further criticized the Human Rights Commissions and Canadian politicians, stating that they didn't like the heat they were getting under this case. Life was chugging along just fine, chastising non-entities nobody had ever heard about, piling up a lot of cockamamie jurisprudence that inverts the principles of common law, and nobody paid any attention to it. Once they got the glare of publicity from the Maclean's case, the kangaroos decided to jump for the exit. I've grown tired of the number of Canadian members of Parliament who've said to me over the last best part of a year now, "Oh, well of course I fully support you, I'm fully behind you, but I'd just be grateful if you didn't mention my name in public".[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean%27s_magazine#cite_note-npruling-12> On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:14:27 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Travis <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:49 PM > Subject: Fwd: [grendelreport] Whitewashing Muslim Terror > To: > > > > > > > > *Whitewashing Islamist Terror* > > > > *by Tarek FatahThe Toronto Sun > <http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/21/west-bowing-to-radical-islam>June 20, > 2016* > > *http://www.meforum.org/6080/whitewashing-islamist-terror > <http://www.meforum.org/6080/whitewashing-islamist-terror>* > > [image: Description: http://www.meforum.org/pics/large/2791.jpg] > > Almost 10 years ago, *Maclean's* magazine published an essay by Mark > Steyn, titled "The future belongs to Islam > <http://www.macleans.ca/culture/the-future-belongs-to-islam/>." In it, he > suggested, "the West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to > rebuff those who would supplant it." > > It was an extract from Steyn's then best-selling book *America Alone*, > where he concluded, "It's the end of the world as we've known it." Steyn > wrote: > > We are witnessing the end of the late 20th-century progressive welfare > democracy. The children and grandchildren of those fascists and republicans > who waged a bitter civil war for the future of Spain now shrug when a bunch > of foreigners blow up their capital. Too sedated even to sue for terms, > they capitulate instantly. > > There was an outcry among Canada's Islamists, who took Steyn and > *Maclean's* to the Ontario and British Columbia Human Rights Commissions. > My fellow *Sun* columnist, Farzana Hassan, and I wrote a rejoinder in > *Maclean's* titled, "Mark Steyn has a right to be wrong > <http://www.islamist-watch.org/121/mark-steyn-has-a-right-to-be-wrong>." > > Today, I recognize, Steyn was right and I was wrong. > > If there were any doubts the West is abdicating its responsibility to > stand up for Western values, the amateur attempts by the FBI to cover up > the Islamist nature > <http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/19/attorney-general-says-mateen-investigation-moving-forward> > > of the Orlando attack removed them. > > ... > > President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee > Hillary Clinton deflected attention from the obvious Islamic nature of the > terrorism to a debate about gun control. > > *Obama has tried to deflect attention from the Islamist nature of the > attack to the issue of gun control.* > > An FBI spokesman did the same when he downplayed the role of Islamism in > the attack, editorializing that the killer, "does not represent the > religion of Islam, but a perverted view, which based on what we know today, > was inspired by extremist killers." > > In Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne, Canada's first openly gay premier, > also refused to address the Islamist nature of the attack, saying, "one > cannot fight homophobia with Islamphobia," at a vigil for the Orlando > victims. > > This is nonsense. Orlando was an act of Islamic terror and of > Islamofascism, a doctrine of hatred towards the West and what it stands > for, including LGBTQ rights. > > It holds secular liberal democracy in contempt, hates non-Muslims, > degrades women, and is racist towards non-Arabs, especially black Africans. > It is a supremacist death cult that has the end times as its ultimate goal. > > Chia Barsen, a 32-year old Canadian Marxist, was 10 when his family fled > Islamic Iran, political refugees escaping the murderous rule of its > barbaric ayatollahs. > > Commenting on the liberal left's reaction to the Orlando massacre, Barsen > wrote <http://www.chiabarsen.com/?p=1374> on his blog: > > Blaming guns for the Islamist murder of 49 people in the Orlando gay club > is like saying that Zyklon B gas was the cause of the Holocaust and not the > Nazis. Gun control is a clear and present issue in the U.S. and there are > countless episodes of shootings in the U.S. to justify the removal of all > guns (not just automatic weapons), from the streets. However, piggybacking > on the gun control debate and not making any mention of the threat of > Political Islam and Islamism, is the furthering of a political agenda and > not simple ignorance or apathy. > > Exactly. > > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmN21lZWhwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjgxNjI5Nzk-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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