Today’s Lynch List

Alright, here we go.

First off, a bit of a grab-bag. Betsy’s Page notes Mark Steyn’s latest for Macleans – Major Nidal Hasan had an enabler. Blazing Cat Fur notes the case of the ‘service’ tea-cup chihuahua going before the Ontario HRT this coming Tuesday.

Second, Binks has done it again, with another heaping helping of links Steynian, Levantian, and Freespeechian over at Free Canuckistan. His latest offering: Steynian 399.

Third, one Mindy G. Alter writes a letter to the editor of the Canadian Jewish News: Rights act and Islamic ‘hate speech’:

The Canadian Jewish Congress continues to throw free expression under the rails, and for what (“CJC defends web hate section of rights act,” Nov. 5)? So that its proxy can haul “Nazis” who pose absolutely no threat to us in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal? So that an addled First Nations leader will be forced to account for his “thought crimes”? How pathetic, and how tragically short-sighted. For while the “human rights” system and criminal courts deal with the phantom menace of homegrown Nazis, the real threat to Jews goes unchallenged: in downtown Toronto, an angry mob of Hamas supporters chants hateful epithets, and a small group of counter-protesters are told to run for their lives because police cannot protect them; at York University, police are called in to rescue some Jewish students who have been cornered by an angry Israel-haters; at the University of Toronto, a student, originally from Bangladesh, posts vitriolic Judenhass on the web, and authorities refuse to charge him with a hate crime, and a Somali imam in Toronto spews hate-filled sermons with impunity.
Is there no one at the CJC who can see what’s happening here – the smaller picture, which reveals Canadian authorities disinclined to do anything about Islamic “hate speech,” and the bigger picture, which shows free speech under grave threat from a United Nations in thrall to it largest voting bloc, the Organization of the Islamic Conference? Now more than ever we need our free speech. Otherwise, to quote the title of Mark Steyn’s latest book, it’s “lights out” for freedom around the world.
Mindy G. Alter
Toronto

Read it here.

Finally, Kinsella, adviser ( scroll down ); ‘the human rights commission, maybe…’; and run for your lives!