I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Mark Steyn responds to his accusers
January 4, 2008
Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan, Muneeza Sheikh and Daniel Simard write that “some clarifications are in order” re: The Calgary Herald’s coverage of their complaint to at least three of Canada’s many “human rights” commissions about an excerpt from my book, America Alone, published by .
So, in that spirit, let me clarify one point of their column,”Debate denied over Maclean’s Muslim article,” which ran Saturday. They cite the following quote as an “extract from Steyn’s article”: “The number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes.”
That line certainly appears in my text, but they’re not my words. Rather, they were said by a prominent Scandinavian Muslim, Mullah Krekar, to a respectable Norwegian newspaper. The imam was boasting at how Islam would outbreed Europe: “We’re the ones who will change you . . . Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children.”
This is the nub of Messrs Mithoowani, Awan, Sheikh and Simard’s complaints against Maclean’s: They’re objecting to a Canadian magazine quoting accurately the statements of leading Muslims. And at least two of Canada’s “human rights” commissions, to their shame, have accepted their absurd proposition that accurately quoting leading Muslims is somehow “Islamophobic.”
Unfortunately, Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan, Muneeza Sheikh and Daniel Simard are possessed of an at-least-decent chance of becoming high-profile lawyers, if not politicians, in this country. Of course, it comes as no susprise to see that they cannot even get their facts straight about the thing which they are complaining. To a man, they are all progressives, and if there is one thing that can be said about the Canadian progressive, it is that he (or, to be fair, she) cannot be counted upon to possess any formal understanding of reality in any objective capacity.
To Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan, Muneeza Sheikh and Daniel Simard, hurt feelings are what matter, not accuracy, reality, objectivity, or truth. And unfortunately, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has demonstrated througout its history that it agrees with them. Which is why it needs to go; no country can survive having a legal body at work within it that pronounces judgements and issues punishments solely on the basis of whether someone “feels” upset/threatened/hurt by someone else.
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