Selective Freedom Of Expression...

...not only on many, many campuses, ask Christie Blatchford, Ann Coulter, but public venues where a Toronto citizen (David Menzies) was verbally and physically "assaulted" but police took no action.

Expect the Expected

Just over a week ago Anne Marie Waters, a Council Member of the National Secular Society, was scheduled to give a talk at Queen Mary University of London as a Co-Spokesperson on behalf of the anti-Shariah group One Law For All. You'll never guess what happened next:

Before (the talk) started, a man entered the lecture theatre, stood at the front with a camera and filmed the audience. He then said that he knew who everyone was, where they lived and if he heard anything negative about the Prophet, he would track them down. The man also filmed students in the foyer and threatened to murder them and their families. On leaving the building, he joined a large group of men, apparently there to support him.

Campus security to the rescue!

He said: 'If you have these discussions, what do you expect?'
Well, in any country anywhere in the world with a substantial Muslim population you can expect to be hung out to dry by politicians and law-enforcement officials. Would-be speaker Ann Marie Waters - who is courageous by virtue of even attempting to speak out against Islamist censorship and threats - seems just a half-step away from understanding that in the relativistic, equivocating West, front-line defenders of free speech are essentially on their own:

I am left wondering what exactly we could have done. I would love to say that we stood up to him and carried on bravely in a valiant defence of free speech, but it was a frightening experience and I know that people felt genuinely threatened and upset. In any case, is it the role of speakers and students to face off against potentially violent Islamists in defence of our free speech, risking our safety in the process?
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When Can We Expect The Legions Of Politically Correct...

...to rush to the battlefield and fight Christianphobia? They could lessen their forces that are fighting Islamphobia!

Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists targetting Christians, turning Nigeria into cauldron of religious strife

THE BROTHERHOOD Seems To Be Winning...

The ridicule of sophisticated liberals is useless against belligerent Muslims

By Kathy Shaidle on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 No Comments

Observe!
According to Nasser, the very first demand of the Brotherhood leader was for the hijab to return to Egypt, “for every woman walking in the street to wear a headscarf.”
The audience erupted in laughter at this, then, ludicrous demand; one person hollered “Let him wear it!” eliciting more laughter and applause.
Nasser continued by saying he told the Brotherhood leader that if they enforced the hijab, people would say Egypt had returned to the dark ages (to more laughter), adding that Egyptians should uphold such matters in the privacy of their own homes.
But the Muslim Brotherhood leader informed him that, as Egypt’s president, Nasser himself must enforce the hijab, to which Nasser replied:
“Sir, I know you have a daughter in college—and she doesn’t wear a headscarf or anything! [laughter] Why don’t you make her wear the headscarf? [laughter] So you can’t make one girl, your own daughter, wear it, and yet you want me to go and make ten million women wear it?!” [burst of laughter and applause]
Nasser and wife Tahia, back in an era when the idea of institutionalizing the hijab provoked laughter and ridicule.

When the State gives any group special status to ‘keep the peace,’ violence is always the result.
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 No Comments
ANY group. Always.

Playing The IslamPhobia card...

Toronto Muslim leader preaches death to apostates; is buddies with former mayor Barbara Hall


By Kathy Shaidle on Friday, September 30th, 2011
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My husband does it again, includes photographic evidence:
Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi is just the sort of lunatic sought out and embraced by prominent members of the Liberal party such as Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall, and Liberal MPP & Cabinet Minister Michael Chan.

A Valid Question?

...who are these "rebel leaders?" Who do they represent? What are their politics? Have the inmates taken over the zoo?

George Jonas: Could Libya’s next rulers be worse than Gaddafi?

If jihadists fill Libya’s power vacuum, the result may dwarf all of Bush’s foreign policy errors combined.
Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf.
But, except for token shows of force, no one took him on. He was virtually rehabilitated, even fussed over at the 2009 G8 summit by the very NATO leaders who spent the last few months trying to dethrone and preferably pulverize him. Read More »