All things Ezra at the beginning of February
February 1, 2008
Apparently, Ezra Levant was interviewed on CTV Newsnet a while ago, and the follow-up interviewee was one of the four Osgoode Hall law students currently at the center of the Mark Steyn/HRC fracas, Khurrum Awan.
Evidently, it didn’t go well for Mr. Awan.
Most of Awan’s comments were the same ones he and the rest of Elmo’s Kids have been offering for months. But Awan said something bizarre, for the first time that I’ve heard. He claims that human rights commissions “are not government bodies” and that “it’s completely false… to say [their penalties] amount to government Censorship.”
Huh?
Every human rights commission in Canada is part of the government. They were each created by a government law, directed by government appointees, funded by government budgets, staffed by government bureaucrats, and their orders have the force of the government behind them.
There are two possibilities here: Khurrum Awan is really that bad a lawyer, or he’s lying through his teeth. It’s hard to believe that, even with its affirmative action programs, Osgoode Hall Law School would admit someone so thick as to support the first possibility, or if they did, to graduate him. I believe the second possibility is more likely true: that, like his boss Mohamed Elmasry, Khurrum Awan will say anything and do anything to promote the cause of radical Islam and to undermine our Western freedoms. If that means lying to CTV and its viewers about the nature of a human rights commission, why, that’s just a little bit of taqiyya.
(Taquiyya, so the Reader knows it, is a practice in Islam wherein it is acceptable to lie to a non-Muslim if by doing so one is able to advance the cause or influence of Islam)
Levant also raises the possibility of whether the AHRC might become an election issue in Alberta (a contact who works at Hansard tells me that a writ may be dropped within another couple of weeks). One can only hope that this will be the case, although I share Levant’s reservations about the Stelmach government.
Update: Welcome, Steynians!
