Republishing of Danish cartoon in Canada on trial

[allix]

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story ... b1&k=90175

This sounds like a freedom of speech violation

[Tsuroerusu]

This sounds like a freedom of speech violation

I completely agree!

Just listen to these guys:

Members of Calgary's Muslim community were outraged when Levant's now-defunct publication, the Western Standard, published the cartoons in February 2006, shortly after their initial appearance in a Danish newspaper led to rioting and protests around the world.

Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, later filed a complaint against the Western Standard to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

If anybody deserve to be sued it's these guys, for trying to trump freedom of speech! Who do they think they are? And why the hell do they file a complaint to a Human Rights Commission? That's one of the most asinine things I've heard in my life! Nobody has any "right not to be offended", they can just not listen to a given person, read a certain paper or not look at a certain picture! That simple. I could understand if the newspaper was making threats against Muslims and Islam, but I'm confident that they did not.

I'm sorry, but stuff like this just pisses me off, it's like they're trying to pervert the term "human rights" just because they can't get to be right. Ugh, it's like a child whining all-day because they can't get candy or something!!!

[snarkout]

It'd only be a violation if they were "found guilty" and fined/imprisioned/assraped by a gang of angry muslims. TBH, I'm not that up on Canadian law, but it's almost certainly still ok to investigate whether something was legal or not legal. We do it all the time in the states. Or am I misunderstanding the article?

[greggh]

It'd only be a violation if they were "found guilty" and fined/imprisioned/assraped by a gang of angry muslims. TBH, I'm not that up on Canadian law, but it's almost certainly still ok to investigate whether something was legal or not legal. We do it all the time in the states. Or am I misunderstanding the article?

I think you are misunderstanding it. I posted about this already here...

http://www.thelinuxlink.net/forum/viewt ... f=9&t=2608

The process and interrogation is itself a violation of a person's freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The government has no business in attempting to regulate political/religious thought/expression. The CHRC has become an Orwellian instrument going after people for thought crime. If you have the time you should watch the videos of the actual interrogation posted on Mr. Levant's site.