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Scant attention: While the National Post continues to follow “the” Canadian story—the appropriation of our free speech in the misbegotten name of “human rights”—and has an editorial on the subject today (see my comments in the post two below), here, in toto, is all the Globe and Mail, which considers itself to be our nation’s newspaper of record, could muster on the subject—an “IN BRIEF” that lives up to its name:

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint against Maclean's magazine over a controversial article on the future of Islam, magazine officials said yesterday.

Meanwhile, a decision from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal over the same issue isn't expected for several months.

The Canadian Islamic Congress launched the dual complaints over an article by Maclean's journalist Mark Steyn. The article, The Future Belongs to Islam, came under fire by Muslim critics who claimed it spreads Islamophobia.

Earlier this month, closing arguments were made before B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal over the article, which appeared in Maclean's in October, 2006.

C’est tout. Given the magnitude of the issue, a bit on the skimpy side, I’d say.

Update: Robert Spencer's response to the line about the claims of Muslim critics: "When the truth spreads 'Islamophobia,' maybe it's time for a bit of introspection."

Robert, of all people, must know that charging people with thought crimes is easy; introspection is hard.

Posted by: scaramouche at 10:27 | link | comments

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