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It must be true. I heard it at Ryerson:

It’s about the CBC sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and the theme of this article is that this CBC sitcom is part of a Muslim conspiracy to make Islam acceptable in Western societies just like homosexuality.  And – these aren’t my words – these are Mark Steyn’s words, okay?

Er, actually, these are my words - the original review of "Little Mosque On The Prairie" from Maclean's. But our Ryerson Marginalization Analyst isn't finished with his precis:

And, in there what he basically says is that there is really nothing such as funny Muslims – in fact funny Muslims are so non-existent that they have to find non-Muslims to play the roles of funny Muslims in this sitcom.  And, further he goes on to say that real Muslims crack jokes about 9/11, about drinking the blood of non-Muslims, etcetera, etcetera – there’s actually – you know – like – a part in there – and the extract that he takes is off some British comic – okay  – who most Muslims and Canadians have never heard of – Merv Brooks — to convey the impression that all Muslims at large engage in insensitive jokes about 9/11 because apparently this guy said that, uh – you know – the house really came down on the people who were inside the World Trade Center on those unfortunate days.

I'd tighten that up a bit for the courtroom, if I were you. But he has a point. Evidently, I've committed The Ultimate Canadian Crime: Questioning whether a state-funded CBC comedy show is funny. I see I wrapped up my original review with these words:

Zarqa Nawaz has done her best, but for most of her co-religionists Islam remains no laughing matter.

So to prove that's not the case the Canadian Islamic Congress is taking me to court. Hilarious. I wish I could call the Ayatollah Khomeini as my witness: "There are no jokes in Islam," said the great man. Maybe the CIC should sue his estate.

...at least in these parts. But elsewhere people seem to be getting very excitable.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I stand by everything I've written about Richard Warman, both in Maclean's and at SteynOnline.

Further to the post below, Kathy Shaidle takes up the curious subject of serial plaintiff Richard Warman, author of the forthcoming book How To Use Words Like N*gger And C*nt For Fun And Profit.

Many of us have been caught in a quandary by this Human Rights farrago of a travesty of a farrago. As David Warren suggests, we could easily counter-sue and pile up a zillion nuisance suits. But to do so would offend against a principled belief that these human rights tribunals are illegitimate. However, given that he has been a plaintiff on every single Section XIII case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal since 2002, and that in not one of these cases has the CHRT found in favour of the defendant, I wonder if we might not make an exception in favour of Mr Warman. Just to reprise, these are words written and electronically communicated by Richard Warman:

Not only is Canadian Senator Anne Cools is a Negro, she is also an immigrant!
And she is also one helluva preachy c*nt.
She does NOT belong in my Canada. My Anglo-Germanic people were here before
there was a Canada and her kind have jumped in, polluted our race, and forced
their bullshit down our throats.
Time to go back to when the women nigger imports knew their place…
And that place was NOT in public!

Quite the prose stylist, eh? As I said previously, this isn't entrapment; it's manufacturing the crime. Mr Warman posted these words on a website and then used them as part of his complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. That is Scandal #1.

Furthermore, when the defendant then made plain that he wished to subpoena the records of the ISP to uncover the author of the above post, the Canadian Human Rights Commission mysteriously dropped it from the case. This suggests an explicit collusion between the CHRC investigators and their former colleague, Mr Warman. That is Scandal #2.

For posting these words on the website and then taking said website to the Human Rights Commission, Mr Warman has been substantially enriched by the Canadian state. That is Scandal #3.

At this point, the Minister of Justice needs to step in. The administration of Section XIII is a public disgrace. I agree with Pundita that it is, in fact, a criminal act in itself. The Minister should order a judicial inquiry into the systemic corruption of Section XIII. Furthermore, in the interim, Agent Dean Steacy should be removed from all "hate" cases, all current cases suspended, and the judgments in those cases brought by Richard The Anglo-German Warman vacated. The mountain of phony-baloney "jurisprudence" based on the Warman racket should be tossed in the trash.

In the end, Maclean's and I might prevail over this thug racket. But why should we have to spend significant six-figure sums doing so given the prima facie evidence above? Section XIII is misbegotten in theory and a shakedown racket in practice. It's time to end it.

If this is correct, I don't see how it's possible to regard the Canadian Human Rights Commission as anything other than a racket for one of its former employees. Why should Richard Warman collect five-figure sums from suing websites for "crimes" in which he has himself participated?