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Friday, March 21, 2008
Transcript: Ezra Levant on Glenn Beck
Last night Ezra Levant had a brief interview with CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck. The topics up for discussion were Osama bin Laden's most recent tape, the recent demonstrations and violence over the Muhammad cartoons in Europe, and the forthcoming film by Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders which is critical of the Quran. Ezra predicts more threats, violence, assassinations, and also lawsuits. The most interesting piece of information for me was this story which I had missed:
"EZRA LEVANT, FMR. PUBLISHER, "THE WESTERN STANDARD": A bunch of Muslim governments recently met in Senegal and talked about a coordinated fight- back strategy to hit western liberal media hard if they dare "defame Islam." They`re talking about a united strategy, including taking us to court in our own western lawsuits. So they`re trying to use our own liberal values against us."
I'm sure that in their fervor to stifle speech these Muslim leaders aren't much for technicalities and won't limit themselves to real lawsuits consistent with western liberal values but instead that the "legal instruments" they wish to use will include pushes for new illiberal legislation and even charges in pseudo-judicial kangaroo courts.
The full transcript is here at cnn.com.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on March 21, 2008 | Permalink
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I'm not sure one can use the CHRC if one isn't even a Canadian resident, Mr. Kassam.
I think Muslim governments are going to have to at least use Canadian residents who are citizens of their nations to pull that one off, otherwise it's going to be the costly courts or nothing.
Maybe CSIS will intervene if they try to use the CHRC through agents, and if they do use the CHRC and it becomes public they'll be destroying the CHRC for us, won't they?
Posted by: Speller | 2008-03-21 10:29:03 PM
YAWN...MORE EZRA NOISE.
Posted by: Steve | 2008-03-21 11:34:39 PM
...FYI the link to the CNN transcript shows something different.
GLENN BECK
New Black Panthers Backing Obama; Former White House Press Secretary Weighs in on Pastor Controversy; Author Andrew Gross Discusses New Book
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Paulo, why not buy some advertising space from WS?
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-03-22 8:35:33 AM
Those muslim gov'ts could finance a lot of frivolous suits, couldn't they? Lots of oil money...
Posted by: Markalta | 2008-03-22 9:23:35 AM
You are quite right Speller - one must be a Canadian citizen to file a CHRC complaint - however, had Steve not fallen asleep - he could have told you that one can always use "proxy" organizations to both file, forward and fund complaint(s).
Posted by: The LS from Sk | 2008-03-22 12:10:16 PM
"a lot of frivolous suits," They could call that "maximum disruption".
Posted by: Sounder | 2008-03-22 12:11:54 PM
I agree its terrible when someone,anyone sues someone over speech is that not an attack on free speech to do such a thing? To use the courts to stiffle ones speech?
Posted by: Merle | 2008-03-22 4:26:40 PM
"YAWN...MORE EZRA NOISE.
Posted by: Steve"
YAWN...THERE GO'S MORE FREEDOM. SURE GLAD WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY NOISE.
Posted by: SW | 2008-03-23 2:29:26 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7273870.stm
Western Standard mentioned on the BBC website. Yay, made the big time!
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-03-24 11:33:25 AM
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