What the attempt to banish "Islamophobia" really means by Lawrence Auster
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has issued a statement in the matter of the complaint of certain Muslims against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn with regard to Maclean's publication of an excerpt from Steyn's supposedly anti-Islamic book America Alone. The Commission declares that it has no jurisdiction under the law to deal with the case, since Ontario law prohibits discrimination in the provision of goods and services, housing, employment, and so on, but not discrimination in the content of magazine articles. (Other jurisdictions in Canada do outlaw such discrimination.) The Commission nevertheless says it needs to state its opinion on the broader issues raised by the complaint. It then launches into a disquisition on racism and "Islamophobia" which inadvertently reveals the heart of the modern liberal order.
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