Maclean's Latest Response To CIC

Maclean's responds to last week's Canadian Islamic Congress press conference

From the Editors | May 7, 2008 | 10:14 pm EST

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In October 2006, Maclean’s published an article by Mark Steyn entitled “The Future Belongs To Islam,” an excerpt from his best-selling book, America Alone.

Five months later, a delegation of Muslim activists offended by Mr. Steyn’s arguments demanded that we turn over to them for the purposes of a reply the cover of the magazine and five or six pages of its contents. We told them that we had already published an extraordinary number of responses to Mr. Steyn’s article and asked if they were willing to discuss a more reasonable accommodation of their views. They refused. The activists, working through the Canadian Islamic Congress, subsequently filed human rights complaints against Maclean’s to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the B.C. Human Rights Commission, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission in Ottawa. The Ontario Human Rights Commission ruled last month that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the students’ complaint.

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