People who know me and my views keep asking me why I did not more upset about the Muslims students who filed rights complaints 3 months ago, over a Maclean’s article published on October last year. I have to keep reminding them: It’s just an article. Getting mad about people getting mad about a magazine article is just as asinine as getting mad in the first place. You don’t need a PHD in political science or to be a historian to know that things have been bad between the Muslim world and the Western world for a long time. This was just a symptom.

I did enjoy the tasteful way on how Rex Murphy depicted the story on January 3, 2008 - like the Human Rights Commission officials were out of their minds.

Here is a snippet:

What I do not associate with this deep and noble concept is getting ticked off by something you read in a magazine - or for that matter hear on television - and then scampering off to a handful - well, three - of Canada’s proliferate human rights commissions - seeking to score off the magazine: this is what four Osgoode Hall law students and graduates — a very definition of the ‘marginalized’ — under the banner of the Canadian Islamic Congress have done after reading an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s America Alone in Maclean’s. The complainants read the article as “flagrantly islamophobic”. [CBC]

I guess I feel bad for the complainants, just because after a while they are going to feel so stupid. “Yes, I was one those who filed a (silly) complaint against MacLean’s Magazine in 2007″

The Arab “street” is like that. They’re always damn mad about something. Maybe they don’t need democracy. Maybe they need their own 20 minutes editorial on Sex TV (prime time). That way they could still moan and bitch about crap that doesn’t matter, but at least it would be broken up by previews of interviews with strung out porn stars and ads for phone sex giving me at least one reason to look at it. It would also be an excellent way to save taxpayers money that is currently used to investigate, frivolous complaints.

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