Haters against hate speech
Here is a letter in the Toronto Star from Ali Mallah of the Canadian Arab Federation, supporting human rights commissions and their arrogation of the powers of political censors. It's signed by the vice-president of the Canadian Arab Federation. Some excerpts:
...Genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda have served as painful reminders of the ramifications of hate speech and the need for effective laws to address it.
Furthermore, our hate-speech laws exist to protect the marginalized and multicultural communities of Canada... It was this provision that the Supreme Court of Canada cited in upholding the constitutionality of our hate-speech laws when they were challenged by Jim Keegstra, a schoolteacher charged for indoctrinating students with Jewish conspiracy theories.
Say, that wouldn't be the same Canadian Arab Federation that, at the last Liberal leadership convention, smeared Bob Rae because his wife was Jewish? Or the same Canadian Arab Federation that denounced Gerard Kennedy when he criticized the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah? The same Canadian Arab Federation that supports boycotts against Jewish businesses in Canada?
So a hater named Syed Soharwardy uses the Alberta Human Rights Commission to persecute the Western Standard;
A hater named Mohamed Elmasry uses the Ontario, B.C. and Canadian Human Rights Commissions to persecute Maclean's magazine;
And now the hateful Canadian Arab Federation weighs in to defend these commissions as necessary.
Anyone see a pattern here?
h/t Right Girl

