Ladies and gentlemen, as we all know Canada is a well known place for human rights abuse and unfortunately, once again a poor and innocent soul got savagely dismembered on the public place.
We should be walking on the street and protesting for the great prejudice that was made on the venerable Ann Coulter during her visit to Canada:
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Inflammatory right-wing pundit Ann Coulter took aim at a University of Ottawa administrator Monday night, saying an e-mail from the school warning her to use "restraint, respect and consideration" when addressing Ontario students during a speaking tour this week made her a victim of a "hate crime."
Speaking to students and academics at the University of Western Ontario Monday, Coulter said the e-mail sent to her Friday by Francois Houle, vice-president academic and provost of the University of Ottawa, targeted her as a member of an identifiable group and as such, she will be filing a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging hate speech.
"I'm sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it," Coulter said to loud cheers from the 800-strong audience. "I think I'm the victim of a hate crime here. Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is BS."
Sarcasm aside, the least we could do is to give her due credits for being able to say this with a straight face.
But what less can we expect from a woman who master the art of syllogism and can come up with such dogmatic gems:
Coulter has said all terrorists are Muslims and has suggested all Muslims be banned from airlines and use flying carpets.
I'm all in for free speech, but I'm starting to think that people should be required to pass a IQ test and score over 60 before being granted to talk in front of a student audience in our publicly fund institutions.
For people like Mrs. Coulter who don't actually know what hate speech is, here is a refresher:
In Canada, advocating genocide or inciting hatred against any 'identifiable group' is an indictable offence under the Criminal Code of Canada with maximum terms of two to fourteen years. An 'identifiable group' is defined as 'any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.' It makes exceptions for cases of statements of truth, and subjects of public debate and religious doctrine. The landmark judicial decision on the constitutionality of this law was R. v. Keegstra (1990).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Canada
This I believe, could qualify what Ann Coulter said at this University as actual hate speech since she specifically targeted an identifiable group by its religion and goes on to encourage their discrimination.
If that is not the tantamount of stupidity, I don't know what could be.
Update: For the record, she claimed afterward that it was in fact satire. Yeah, sure.
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