Monday, March 30, 2009

The Dying of the Light   [Mark Steyn]

Free speech continues to shrivel remorselessly week by week. Of the disgusting U.N. "Human Rights" Council resolution, the Globe & Mail writes:

The UN resolution has no legal force, but its symbolism is disturbing. Any Islamic government that legislates against an “insult to Islam,” which can cover nearly anything, has just been given a pat on the back. Anyone anywhere who finds something objectionable – a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in an editorial cartoon in Denmark, or a novel set in India, or a mention of the Prophet Mohammed in connection with a beauty pageant in Nigeria – has been handed a moral justification for protest. This, in a world in which such protests have often taken deadly forms.

Almost right. It gives "a pat on the back" not just to authoritarian Islamic states (and Muslim nations are among the most oppressive in the world) but also to all those politically correct enforcers in the west, including American campuses, the Dutch prosecutors charging Geert Wilders, the Canadian "human rights" commissions, and an ever more coercive British thought regime whose latest genius wheeze is banning "anti-gay" jokes.

03/30 11:22 AMShare