A Shi’ite who has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 16 years for insulting the Prophet Mohammed was sentenced this week to another five years in jail for criticizing the Saudi justice system, an activist said.

Insulting the Prophet Mohammed. That’s what Ezra Levant was brought in front of the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission for. For printing the Danish cartoons in the now-defunct Western Standard magazine. But he wasn’t charged in Saudi Arabia - he was charged right here in “freedom-loving” Canada. A lunatic, illiterate Imam scrawled a complaint to the AHRC, and for two years Ezra was dragged through an expensive and ultimately bogus process.

No, he didn’t face death row for insulting the epileptic child molester who founded Islam as a land grab. Not this time.

You hear a lot of talk about the slippery slope. In Canada, the Human Rights apparatus was set up to make sure that minorities had equal access to housing and employment as other Canadians. It was a good idea at the time. But the slippery slope has slid us into a place where printing cartoons or writing a book about demography can get you hauled in front of a government body for years on end at high expense… for the good of the people.

Brass Balls Radio records tonight, and with me to discuss the outcome of Warman v. Lemire in front of adjudicator Athanasios Hadjis of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will be Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. Yes, I’m asking these two great friends to give up part of their Friday evening before a long weekend to talk about the Kangaroo Courts. Again.

Download from iTunes on Sunday night or from the web on Monday morning to hear what they have to say about this recent - positive - turn of events.

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