More Mark. He writes good. He writes true. Canuckstan (a small village situated somewhere in a cold part of Ontario) wants to ban him.
So let us think ungood thoughts and eat share our bacon bagels with the local Mullahcracy…
If young Muslim girls are being murdered in “honor killings”, the Chief Commissar of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission will explain that they’re a “small commission” and they have to be able to prioritize and that Mark Steyn is a far greater threat to the Queen’s peace than killers of Muslim women.
But, if you don’t threaten violence, if you don’t issue death threats, if you don’t kill anyone, if you just make a movie or write a book or try to give a speech, the state will prosecute you, ban you or (in the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali) force you to flee your own country.
In their appeasement of thugs, buffoons like Miliband and the Tory squishes across the House of Commons on the Opposition benches are making it very clear that the state accords more respect to violence than to debate. As I said to my interrogators in Ontario this week:
When you go down that road, all you do is lead to the situation that you have in, say, Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, you can’t start a newspaper and print what you think, so if you object to the House of Saud, the only thing you can do is blow stuff up.
In Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere (as the Instaprof has often noted) the state is teaching a very dangerous lesson.
via The Free World Fatwas Itself – Mark Steyn – The Corner on National Review Online.
Because free speech cannot just be polite speech. And without humor and freedom of enquiry, there will be no new thought, no new ideas…
Oh I forgot. New ideas are notgoodthink. Must follow Islam.
No thanks. I prefer to have my integrity unsmirched and my soul intact.
