Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.

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Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia: A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article's tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States did not say every day without fear of legal reprisal.

Things are different here. The magazine is on trial.

Under Canadian law, there is a serious argument that the article contained hate speech and that its publisher, Maclean's magazine, the nation's leading newsweekly, should be forbidden from saying similar things, forced to publish a rebuttal and made to compensate Muslims for injuring their "dignity, feelings and self respect."

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, which held five days of hearings on those questions in Vancouver last week, will soon rule on whether Maclean's violated a provincial hate speech law by stirring up animosity toward Muslims.

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So now we know why so many liberals only "threaten" to leave the U.S. when their candidate does not win an election.  They get in too much legal trouble when they spout all their hatred of others.

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That whirling sound you hear are the founding fathers spinning in their grave.

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So now we know why so many liberals only "threaten" to leave the U.S. when their candidate does not win an election.  They get in too much legal trouble when they spout all their hatred of others.

Chris, your link didn't work, but this is the same article. The article is 8 years old, and the case has been "adjudicated" (or whatever a decision by a panel of bureaucrats is called) at the provincial and national level:

The Ontario Human Rights Commission ruled that it did not have the jurisdiction to hear the complaint. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint in June 2008 and issued a ruling on October 10, 2008 dismissing the complaint. The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed the federal complaint on June 26, 2008 without referring the matter to a tribunal

And Mark Steyn, the author of the article that was the focus of the complaint, hasn't skipped a beat. His right to free speech was upheld there in Canada.