Nothing New at the Royal York Hotel
So I headed down to the Royal York hotel this morning to catch the Law Is Cool kids’ press conference.
Faisal Joseph (dressed a little like Huggybear in his gold accoutrements, yet looking a lot like a 10th grade English teacher that offers the girls “extra credit”), counsel for the Canadian Islamic Congress, sat amid the all-but-silent Law Is Cool students, who are known to be Mohammed El Masry’s fresh-faced sock puppets.
The CIC (absent Dr. El Masry, who I’m sure was off legitimately plotting to kill Jews over the age of 18) and the Law is Coolers called this press conference to announce that they wanted to make a “deal” with Maclean’s magazine, and to advise that they would drop the HRC complaints if their “deal” was accepted.
Well, I don’t know how winning these students will be at law, but if their career aim is politics, they’re off to a great start: the new deal is exactly the same as the old deal. Publish their rebuttal to Steyn’s “The Future Belongs to Islam”, or they’ll carry on with their suit.
Frankly, this isn’t news. They could have stayed home, I could have slept in, and nothing could have been said, and everything would have proceeded apace. After all, that was exactly what they proposed last year, and Ken Whyte - publisher of Maclean’s - said he’d “rather go bankrupt” than be extorted and have his publication hijacked.
Anyway, that was the body of the press conference. Aren’t you glad you stayed home? For your delight and delectation, here’s some observations about the whole thing.
Faisal Joseph (Huggybear) went on and on about “support from party leaders”, then proceeded to hand out a press pack with one letter of government support - from Jack Layton(!). Not so surprisingly, there were also letters from labor unions. Where Taliban Jack goes, the unions follow.
The letters from OPSEU and the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians that were included in the press pack were marked “DRAFT” - I cannot at this time confirm that they are final documents that were meant for release.
Mr. Joseph mentioned that threats had been made against the Osgoode students for having filed the claim against Maclean’s (they didn’t file the claim, by the way - only the CIC is listed on the actual complaint, but why let a little thing like the truth get in the way?). When a reporter for the National Post asked if these threats were being taken seriously and investigated, Mr. Joseph quickly changed the subject without answering the question. In fact, he then went on to scold the young reporter for the Post for taking up too much time and asking too many questions (at a press conference - oh the nerve of him!). If Mr. Joseph was trying to win friends in the press, he was going about it the wrong way. And what of those death threats?
The basis of the entire complaint is supposedly about having an “equal voice”. As many have said, why not start your own damn magazine and leave ours alone? But nay, they want ours. It’s part of the growing phenomenon of Sharia Creep. The darlings have been published in the Toronto Star with a Saturday circulation nearing 450,000 and a weekday circulation of just under 400,000. Maclean’s, on the other hand, has a weekly circulation of about 350,000. So, who got the better deal? So much for the “equal voice” argument.
You can read Kathy’s meltdown here. She was with me, frothing at the mouth, and is now bruised on one side where I kept elbowing her to behave. Five Feet of Fury, indeed. I found it amusing, but then again, I still have both clitoris and humor intact - unlike some religions I could mention.
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I truely enjoy reading RightGirl and Kathy, women after my own heart:)
I raise my glass and say cheers to you all!!!!
I think I’ll file my own complaints with the CHRC and it’s ugly cousins in AB and BC over every article I find offensive from Muslim papers. Then I’ll make the demand that I as a “white christian” have the right to have a response printed - just as long as we agree on the author.
Comment by Rob — April 30, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
So if the new deal is exactly the same as the old deal, what the hell was the press conference for? The idiocy of it all is mind boggling.
Comment by kelly — April 30, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Thanks for an honest report. These folks have really learned how to play the victim game, and Elmasry has learned to keep off the stage. Given that they are NOT the complainants, one would think the young lawyers need to reread the chapter on professional conduct, if there still is such a concept at Osgoode, much less the HRCs.
Comment by Hank — April 30, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
Are your ears still burning from Kathy’s expletive vollies following the sock puppet theater down the street?
Comment by WL Mackenzie Redux — April 30, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
Comment by kelly:
The reasons are quite obvious when you learn the word Hudna.
Truces, Arab Style
“What is being touted as a ‘cease-fire’ is something called a ‘hudna.’ A hudna [also known as a hudibiyya or khudaibiya] is a tactical cease-fire that allows the Arabs to rebuild their terrorist infrastructure in order to be more effective when the “cease-fire” is called off.” — “Cease-fire?” by Shira A. Drissman
Overview
“Kill them so that they know they are dying.” How Prince Jarema Wisniowiecki dealt with envoys who brought a 17th-century hudna proposal
“I would not live in this Commonwealth, for I should be ashamed.” Those who wish to negotiate with vicious enemies like terrorists are shanbiony or shanbiona.
Dialogue of the Athenians and the Melians (Thucydides). The strong need not negotiate at all.
Negotiating with the enemy shows weakness
Noam Chomsky, Tikkun.org, and the Geneva “negotiatiors” as reincarnations of King Henry VI
Neville Chamberlain
Pearl Harbor
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At least you two didn’t shave your legs.
Go on girls!!!!
Comment by Natalka — April 30, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
“I still have both clitoris and humor intact”
A clear statement of the issue at stake, right girl, no wonder faisal was so uncomfortable in your presence. Great report! Oh, and thanks for getting our Ms. Shaidle out safely and in an unarrested condition:)
Comment by morgan swift — April 30, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
Actually, none of us were there. And none of them have anything to do with us.
You should get your facts straight, it’s a pretty simple distinction.
Comment by Law is Cool — April 30, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
I’d like to suggest that everyone let Barrister Faisal Joseph know how you feel about this matter - respectfully of course. Here’s his address and my e-mail to him.
fjoseph@lerners.ca
Mr. Faisal Joseph, Partner
Lerners PPL, Barriters and Solicitors
Dear Mr. Joseph;
Thank you for once again illustrating to the Canadian public why we must be sure to stand firm in defence of freedom of speech - a concept you and your ‘Canadian Islamic Council’ clients apparently fail to understand. Each time you and your cohorts cry ‘victim’ while attempting to limit our freedom, we grow stronger.
It causes ordinary people - like myself and thousands of others - to let our politicians know that we will not submit nor accept ‘limits’ to our inalienable rights. Each time you cry ‘victim’ I send yet another message to not only my representatives, but to everyone I know… and they then join with me in defence of freedom. I note that the complainant, Dr. Elmasry is apparently too busy to attend to the matter, so he has sent you and his aggrieved little wannabe lawyers to do his bidding.
This complaint will end up where all totalitarians eventually do - in the dustbin of history. Most people leave their place of birth because of too little freedom - they crave more, not less. If you or other members of your ideology have left such a place, you can hardly expect to come to Canada and order us to bend to your will.
If you truly wish less freedom, there are plenty of places which will more than willingly accomodate your request. No double standards allowed.
Randy O’Donnell
Nanaimo, B.C.
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Dear Members of Parliament;
Are you concerned about the ever increasing power of HRC’s and the ever diminishing role of free speech in Canadian society due to them? You should be.
Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall can hardly wait for June 30th, when the commissars of the Ontario Human Rights Commission can actively begin searching for ‘incidents’ rather than waiting for ‘aggrieved parties’ to come forward. Commissar Hall recently publically branded Mcleans’s magazine as Islamophobic and hateful, despite having neither jurisdiction nor evidence, saying about her decision “I don’t view it as a chill (to free speech), I view it as responsibility.†Now, get a load of what’s on the Ontario Human Rights Commissions website: a circular argument that denial of racism is racism.
Then read ‘An Anantomy of Surrender’ from City Journal http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_cultural_jihadists.html to see where this all leads.
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From Mark Steyn’s column of April 12, 2008: http://www.macleans.ca/canada/opinions/article.jsp?content=20080423_31672_31672
“Of course. The act of not acting in an insufficiently non-hateful way can itself be hateful. Whether or not the incident is a non-incident is incidental. I quote from “Concepts Of Race And Racism And Implications For OHRC Policy as published on the OHRC website: “The denial of racism used by so many whites in positions of authority ranging from the supervisor in a work place to the chief of Police and ministers of government must be understood for what it is: an example of White hegemonic power over those considered ‘other.’ â€
Got that? Your denial of racism merely confirms your racism — because simply by being a †“White hegemon (social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group) †you wield racist power.â€
Comment by NoGuff — April 30, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
LiC:
Actually, who are “them” and who are “us”? You should get your antecedents straight. It’s simple English.
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These people are clowns…but like all clowns they have an air of menace…they need to be defeated.
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It does’nt take much to get Kathy angry,so full of hate and venom that she is.
Comment by ajsuhail — May 2, 2008 @ 4:19 am
Hey Aj: watching 3000 people get burned alive before your eyes will do that to any decent person.
Being an indecent Muslim apologist, you wouldn’t understand that. You were probably cheering, like so many leftist Canadians. You can’t even address any real issues, just indulge in empty name calling.
Comment by Kathy Shaidle — May 2, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
just an aside…..reading this in June, I wonder if you know who owns the Royal york in Toronto, and a few other majorly beautiful historic site cn hotels across canada…odd that canada should sell these off to islamic billionaires…i wonder how many other countries sell off their historic sites to foreign investors…kind of sickening to think of all the implications of that one…..
Comment by cosmos — June 14, 2008 @ 7:25 am
not surprising it was held at a hotel that is owned by islamics…major share holders..I vowed I had my last mothers day brunch there after I heard that…
Comment by cosmos — July 25, 2008 @ 11:13 am