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It turns out that the promised offer of settlement was not any different than the previous offer made to Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine by the Canadian Islamic Congress through its sock puppets, the four Muslim Osgoode Hall law students.

That’s right — after all the hype of a big settlement offer, they wound up offering to drop their human rights complaints against Steyn and Maclean’s if, and only if, Maclean’s agreed to publish, with no editorial oversight as to content or formatting, an Islamic rebuttal to Mark Steyn’s article The Future Belongs to Islam.

I have never been prouder to be a Canadian than the day I heard Ken Whyte say he would rather Maclean’s magazine go bankrupt than allow it to be hijacked by a handful of Muslim beligerents.

At this morning’s press conference, held by the Sharia Creeps, we were promised a big “settlement” announcement in the absurd case of Steyn & Maclean’s v. A Bunch of Sock Puppets and Their Anti-Semite Master Behind the Curtain.

In a dazzling demonstration of both taqiyya AND hudna, we received no such thing.

The three law students — or rather, their obnoxious lawyer, who did all the talking — simply reiterated their original demands: that Maclean’s magazine honor the students’ imaginary “right to rebuttal” (a right that exists nowhere in English common law or centuries of journalistic and publishing practice) by letting them publish 5,000 unsolicited and unedited words in someone else’s magazine.

Despite the repeated (I lost track at 6) attempts by the National Post’s Joseph Brean to get them to explain what exactly was different about this new and improved “settlement” offer, no clear answer was forthcoming.

And for an additional “heh”:

My outburst caught the attention of one of the female law students on the dais, and we engaged in a evil eye staring match for the next 15 minutes. Heh. Made ‘er blink.

And of course, we had to hear about four different times about Ken Whyte’s “disgraceful” bankruptcy comment, which they are totally and utterly obsessed with.

See, this is why there hasn’t been a Muslim Reformation:

there must not be an Arabic equivalent of “Here I stand, I can do no other.”

Their wee Borg-like brains cannot fathom such independence of spirit, such defiance in the face of the great and mighty Islam. Especially defiance by a mere infidel, and his “pig” (or is it “dog”?) stooge, the suspiciously surnamed “Mark Steyn” — whom this case has nothing to do with and don’t you forget it while I read more excerpts from the previously unheard-of essay which we are basing our whole case on even though NO ONE ELSE HAD READ it in Canada’s biggest and only newsweekly and between the covers of a bestselling book — until I read it to you, just this minute.

And we’re supposed to believe these people invented chess.

Pitiful. But I suppose that in a sense it’s all we should have expected; this case has been an exercise in absurdity since its inception, and it’s not really surprising that the losing side has opted to maintain the status quo.

Update: Welcome, Steynians!

The Canadian Islamic Congress will be making a public settlement offer to Maclean’s and Mark Steyn.

CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

April 29, 2008

ISLAMIC CONGRESS AND LAW STUDENTS TO MAKE PUBLIC SETTLEMENT OFFER TO MACLEAN’S ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINTS

TORONTO - The Canadian Islamic Congress and a group of law students who recently filed human rights complaints against Maclean’s magazine for publishing Islamophobic content, are planning to present a public offer to the magazine’s management to settle the matter.

Details of this offer and more information regarding the background of the above-mentioned complaints will be provided to those in attendance.

When:
10:00 a.m.: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Where:
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, The Quebec Room, 100 Front Street West,
Toronto ON

Present at the media conference will be:

- Faisal Joseph: CIC legal counsel, former Federal and Provincial Crown Attorney, and former Chair of the Criminal Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Nova Scotia).

- Muneeza Sheikh, Naseem Mithoowani and Khurrum Awan: Three of the law
  students/graduates who were original complainants against Maclean’s magazine.

For more information contact:
Faisal Joseph: (519) 672-4510

I agree with Deb Gyapong: Ken Whyte (editor of Maclean’s) and Mark Steyn shouldn’t accept the settlement.

Well, it’s gone too far. Unless the CIC and the Muslim law students are willing to ante up the magazine’s and Steyn’s legal bills for subjecting them to an abusive process; unless they are willing to admit they were wrong to file complaints; and unless they acknowledge the importance of freedom of speech and Religion, then on principle there should be no settlement.

This struggle against the HRCs can end when and if the HRCs themselves are either dissolved or stripped of their power through the removal of Section 13 from the Canadian Human Rights Act. Apart from that, there should be no deal possible.

Update: Welcome, Steynians!