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MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE AND THE MUSLIMS

Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 11:23 AM

It's about time.

I and a few others = met with=20 these young folks, a few weeks ago, and advised them to stop = trusting=20 Maclean=92s. Some of the editors there are Janus-faced* = ideologues,=20 who excel at torque and tilt. These young people, meanwhile, were=20 genuinely offended by what the magazine=92s country club bigot, = Mark Steyn,=20 had written about them. They simply wanted an opportunity to = respond -=20 not, as Maclean's has falsely claimed, control of = the whole=20 magazine.

(Case in point - I have personal experience with = their=20 bullshit: back in February, I objected to something Steyn wrote, = too.=20 After much prodding, an editor at the magazine asked me for a = 300-word=20 letter to the editor. I immediately provided one, with sources. The = letter they=20 solicited was never published - and, many weeks later, I still = have to=20 receive the courtesy of a reply. Like I say, they're=20 dishonest.)

Having met with the Osgoode students and = talked=20 to them, I know that they were not interested in punishing or = prosecuting=20 anyone =96 they merely want what anyone would want, when their = fundamental=20 beliefs are being defamed: a right of reply. Some equal time. = That=92s it.=20

What I suspect they will be proposing to = Maclean=92s =96 now,=20 openly and in full public view =96 is what they were always=20 proposing: that they would be happy to drop their complaint if = Maclean=92s would give them a reasonable amount of space to = counter=20 some of the unfair and inaccurate things Steyn, a notorious = Islamophobe,=20 has written about their faith.

My impression of these young = people?=20 They are citizens. They are young and idealistic. They are = law-abiding=20 people. They should be able to live free from defamation of their=20 deeply-held beliefs, just like anybody else. And all that they = were after,=20 really, was what anybody else would be after in similar = circumstances =96 a=20 chance to say this was wrong, this was unfair, and why. =

That's not=20 at all: I also came away convinced that they did not want to bring = a human=20 rights complaint =96 they were forced into doing so by = Maclean=92s=20 obstinacy and its unwillingness to give them some equal = time.

Ken=20 Whyte et al. claim to be Canada=92s national news magazine. They = should=20 prove it, by giving a bit of space to reflect the views of the = hundreds of=20 thousands of Canadians they ridiculed and denigrated.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
In the Name of = God, the=20 Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
The Canadian Islamic = Congress=20 Media Communiqu=E9
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - Rabi-al-Thani 23, = 1429,=20 Year:11 Vol:11 Issue:44

April 29, = 2008

ISLAMIC CONGRESS AND LAW STUDENTS TO MAKE
PUBLIC = SETTLEMENT=20 OFFER TO MACLEAN'S ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINTS =
TORONTO=20 - The Canadian Islamic Congress and a group of law students who = recently=20 filed human rights complaints against Maclean's magazine for = publishing=20 Islamophobic content, are planning to present a public offer to = the=20 magazine's management to settle the matter.

Details of this = offer=20 and more information regarding the background of the = above-mentioned=20 complaints will be provided to those in attendance.

When: = 10:00=20 a.m.: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Where: Fairmont Royal York = Hotel,=20 The Quebec Room, 100 Front Street West, Toronto ON

Present = at the=20 media conference will be:

- Faisal Joseph: CIC legal = counsel,=20 former Federal and Provincial
Crown Attorney, and former Chair = of the=20 Criminal Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Nova = Scotia).

-=20 Muneeza Sheikh, Naseem Mithoowani and Khurrum Awan: Three of the = law=20 students/graduates who were original complainants against = Maclean's=20 magazine.

For more information contact:
Faisal Joseph: = (519)=20 672-4510

*UPDATE: Wells polishes his employer's apple, again. In = a funny=20 way. Come to think of it, he should be editor. = (Libertarians are=20 great at coma-inducing essays about tax cuts and the evil of = Islam, but=20 not so great at running businesses, turns out. And, as CARD data = shows,=20 paid subs at Maclean's plummeted after Whyte took over in 2005.=20 Libertarians: all they do is lose media market share.)

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