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Power grab: In case you were wondering where the sock-thingys were going with their complaint—aside from the desire to pocket some quick coin for a worthy cause, I mean—it becomes clear in this snippet of reportage from Maclean’s blogger on the scene, Andrew Coyne (his italics):

1:30 PM Back from lunch, and the first witness is Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, an expert on the Koran, and Islam. Again, the Maclean’s side is raising questions about what terms of reference he was given in his retainer letter. I think they’re trying to suggest, or at least hint, that these expert witnesses were coached or pointed down a certain path, which is a no-no in most courts, and perhaps even here.

The letter, which [Maclean's lawyer] Julian Porter, is quite bald in setting out the complainants’ objectives. “This case is very important to Muslim minorities who are consistently misrepresented in the media.” They cite approvingly the BC human rights legislation. “We anticipate that success in this case will provide the impetus for prohibiting discriminatory publications in the other provinces.” So there you have it…

Members of the Jewstablishment keep running to the ‘roos because they want to be able to retain their paid-up membership in Canada’s Special Victims Unit, and give their much-honoured “Nazi-hunter,” He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (because to name him, he thinks, is to defame him), a chance to shut down the last three neo-Nazis in Saskatchewan. “The Muslim minorities who are consistently misrepresented in the media,” on the other hand, have a completely different agenda. They desire nothing less than to control the content of information published in Canada about Islam and its adherents.

If that don’t chill you right to the marrow, I don’t know what will.

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