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Saturday, 04 July 2009

Acceptable--and unacceptable--“free” speech: Michael Coren nails it (my bolds):
…Just outside of Toronto a young Muslim student was told by the police and the judiciary that he would not be charged or prosecuted for writing on the Internet that Canadian soldiers should be killed in Canada so that they could not travel to Islamic countries such as Afghanistan. He also repeatedly called for "evil and vile" Jews to be slaughtered.
Direct calls for violence towards an identifiable group and pleas for the killing of members of the Canadian military.
Yet politicians, lawyers and police officers conclude that nothing was said that broke the law.
It could, of course, be argued that the dunderhead has every right to be offensive on the Internet. Problem is, the authorities have not thought so when comments nowhere near as violent and incendiary have been made in the past about Muslims and gays.
Who says?
Which leads us to realize that it is not what is said but about whom it is said and who says it that is the issue.
A Muslim calling for Jews and soldiers to be killed apparently is not as bad as a Christian claiming that homosexuality is sinful or a Jew stating that terror is sometimes committed in the name of Islam. OK? Good. It's important that you understand so as not to get into any problems.

Posted by: scaramouche at 14:48 | link | comments (1)


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#1  04 July 2009 - 20:32
 
Video of Coren saying as much here
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