Ezra Levant wins case

The Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Canada has rejected the complaint about Ezra Levant, who published the Motoons in The Western Standard. We reported on Levant tearing a strip off the council back in January. It is nice to see him vindicated.

Yasmeen Nizam, the lawyer representing the Muslim complainants in the case, was remarkably frank about their motives.

Our whole idea was to educate people,. We thought the cartoons did (expose Muslims to hatred), regardless of the context, because if you look at the broader context in a post-9-11 world, Muslims are at a higher risk of being discriminated against

We weren’t shopping around for any laws. We thought this was a good way to bring our concerns to the attention of the public. Obviously, we didn’t want this to continue, so (another goal was) perhaps to discourage people from further maligning our prophet and our religion. . . . We wanted this to have a deterrent effect.

It did not work. It will not work in the future. It has never stood any chance of working.

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One Response to “Ezra Levant wins case”

  1. Well it probably does have a chance of winning with some people – the people in charge at Random House spring to mind. But at the same time it also motivates a whole lot of other people to ‘offend’ and criticize and take the Michael and dispute who wouldn’t have done so in the absence of all this bullying and silencing. It also causes a lot of people to dislike and fear and resent Islam who wouldn’t have otherwise – so whether this clever plan is such a good idea overall may be doubted.