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This editorial isn't available at their somewhat undernourished website but it gave me a titter. From Monday's Nanaimo Daily News in British Columbia:
At the centre of what is turning into a very Canadian issue about free speech and our views on Islam is Maclean's magazine. On Oct. 6, 2006, columnist Mark Steyn wrote a piece titled 'The Future Belongs to Islam,' which only in the last week gained any notice. The piece is excerpted from his book, America Alone.
The rather boring piece, which reads half like Steyn talking to himself and half like he's trying to show us how smart he is, got the attention of Canadian Muslims...
Oh, dear. I guess when Maclean's fires me there'll be no point waiting for the big phone call from Nanaimo. (Just for the record, the piece appeared in the October 23rd 2006 edition of Maclean's. Also for the record, the magazine is owned not by Quebecor, as these chaps state, but by Rogers. Also for the record ...whoops, there I go, trying to show how smart I am...).
By the way, the editorial's overall tone of having wandered into the play halfway through the plot is nicely caught by their endearingly inept headline:
Even Jihadists Have The Right Of Free Speech.
Who can doubt it? Jihadists promise to "Behead The Enemies Of Islam" and demand the Pope be executed and threaten to rain down a second 9/11 on Europe and call Britain's Tube bombers "the Fantastic Four" - and no-one ever suggests restraining their free speech. On the contrary, in London the guys calling for the beheading of infidels are flanked by constables of the Metropolitan Police so zealous in their defence of jihadist free-speech rights they threaten to arrest any members of the public who get too near.
What's at issue here is the non-jihadists' right to free speech.
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