Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Since Maclean’s got into a spot of bother with Canada’s “human rights” pseudo-courts, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of our media confreres who don’t think it should be a “crime” for magazines to publish excerpts from books by yours truly. Nevertheless, in defending free speech in general, they usually feel obliged to deplore my exercise of it in particular:
“Maclean’s published an alarmist screed by Mr. Steyn . . .” (The Economist)
“While the book may be alarmist . . .” (CFRB)
“Steyn’s argument is indeed alarmist . . .” (The Guardian)
And, oh dear, even:
“The fear of ‘a Muslim tide’ was alarmist . . .” (Tarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan in Maclean’s)
Okay, enough already. I get the picture: alarmist, alarmist, alarmist. My book’s thesis — that most of the Western world is on course to become at least semi-Islamic in its political and cultural disposition within a very short time — is “alarmist.”
The question then arises: fair enough, guys, what would it take to alarm you?
