Human rights thugs try to roll a cabinet minister
Khurrum Awan is a busy boy.
When he's not filing spurious human rights complaints against pundits, he's a bit of a pundit himself.
Here's a sampling of Awan's scintillating wit and deep analysis that he posted as a comment on Garth Turner's website, when that MP was turfed from the Tory party:
Hello Mr Turner,
i noted on your weblog from July that you told the Arab community to go to
hell because of their criticism of you (& the Conservative party) for
behaving like an outpost of the Israeli Likud Party in Canada…seems what
goes around comes around…cuz you have been told to go to hell by the
Conservative Party!! LOL! Hope that was fun 
Khurrum Awan
You can read it here -- just scroll down halfway, or search for the word LOL! using your browser's find function.
(Hey, I'm the second vice president of the Calgary Southwest Constituency Association of the Israeli Likud Party in Canada, and I'm deeply offended by Awan's remarks. We would never have run Turner as a candidate.)
At least Awan didn't say what Mohamed Elmasry, his boss at the Canadian Islamic Congress, says about Likudniks (that's anti-Semitic code for Jews) -- that we are all fair game to be murdered in terrorist attacks in Israel.
Awan's writing is still infantile, as anyone who has read his submissions in the aforementioned Steyn case can attest, though Elmasry seems to have insisted that Awan eliminate the smileys. We all know how the Canadian Islamic Congress feels about cartoons.
Well, now Awan is at it again. He's sent this grammatically creative letter to Jason Kenney, the cabinet minister who has spoken out against the CIC's fatwa against Steyn.
(If you're wondering how I got this letter, it's obvious. The Israeli Likud Party in Canada is part of the "Toronto Coalition to Support the War" to which Awan sent the letter, as part of his cc list. He's not much for details, this young Johnnie Cochrane.)
Awan accuses Kenney of "undue intereference with a legal proceeding" for having publicly stood for Canadian values like freedom of speech. He also called Maclean's continuing discussion of the human rights complaints against it to be illegal "retaliation" against Muslims.
That got me thinking: Kenney's job is minister of multiculturalism, and it was recently expanded to include Canadian identity programs and domestic rights issues. It's his mandate to defend civil rights, and to inculcate those values into new Canadians, such as Egyptian-born Elmasry and Pakistan-born, Saudi-trained Syed Soharwardy, and many of the other radical immigrants who have brought illiberal foreign values into Canada.
I think Kenney shouldn't just issue a statement to the press. He should go the whole mile -- and send a lawyer, on behalf of the Canadian government, to intervene in the Elmasry vs. Steyn fight. Contrary to what Awan thinks, it's not inappropriate to take a position in legal proceedings such as this, with its public policy ramifications. If the Government of Alberta can intervene against freedom of speech in an Alberta case, then surely the feds can send a lawyer to intervene for freedom in a federal case.
It's unlikely that the Conservative government, with only a minority in Parliament, will do what it really ought to do, and pull the plug on the Canadian Human Rights Commission altogether. But until a Conservative majority comes, they can send a lawyer on behalf of the federal government, to teach the CHRC -- and Awan and his fellow censors -- that human rights in Canada mean freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the separation of mosque and state.
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P.S. Look at the that motley crew of lobby groups to which Awan sent his letter -- that's the coalition of censors (Mark Steyn might call it the "coalition of the chilling") that the CIC is assembling.
But what do they have in common? What does the pro-feminist, pro-abortion, pro-secular, pro-gay Canadian Federation of Students have in common with a hodge-podge of Muslim groups so strict on those matters that they make the Pope look like Liberace? (Awan himself led the CIC's charge against gay marriage).
This strange union of the domestic left with foreign fascists has only one thing that holds them together: they all loathe Canada's western, liberal traditions.
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