Selective free speech. How ridiculous is that?
Celebrated author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian judicial panels on charges linked to his book “America Alone.â€
The book, a No. 1 bestseller in Canada, argues that Western nations are succumbing to an Islamist imperialist threat.
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Of course, a ban on opinions – even disagreeable ones – is the very antithesis of the Western tradition of free speech and freedom of the press.
Indeed, this whole process of dragging Steyn and the magazine before two separate human-rights bodies for the “crime†of expressing an opinion is a good illustration of precisely what he was talking about…