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This National Post article is worth a read.
Excerpt:
In 2008, I warned Canadian Muslims that bringing human-rights complaints against Mark Steyn and other critics of militant Islam was a mistake: It was only a matter of time till the human-rights watchdogs come after the mullahs themselves.
“Like the Bible, Muslim scripture contains a lot of material that, by modern standards, would be considered sexist, homophobic or even anti-Semitic,” I wrote. “One statement attributed to Muhammad, for instance, declares that ‘Judgment day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill the Jews’ … The prospect of a human rights tribunal telling you which Suras and Hadiths you are and aren’t allowed to preach in your mosques may sound ridiculous. But it’s not.”
As an example, I cited the the case of a Saskatchewan Christian named Hugh Owens, who was taken up on human-rights charges for quoting Bible passages, such as Leviticus 18:22, in his campaign against homosexuality. “If Leviticus is now hate speech,” I asked in 2008, “how long before the Koran gets the same treatment?”
And now we have our answer: About four years.