Free Speech

Haters against hate speech
By Ezra Levant on February 20, 2008 9:32 PM

Here is a letter in the Toronto Star from Ali Mallah of the Canadian Arab Federation, supporting human rights commissions and their arrogation of the powers of political censors. It's signed by the vice-president of the Canadian Arab Federation. Some excerpts:

...Genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda have served as painful reminders of the ramifications of hate speech and the need for effective laws to address it.

Furthermore, our hate-speech laws exist to protect the marginalized and multicultural communities of Canada... It was this provision that the Supreme Court of Canada cited in upholding the constitutionality of our hate-speech laws when they were challenged by Jim Keegstra, a schoolteacher charged for indoctrinating students with Jewish conspiracy theories.

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