Naseem Mithoowani
Khurrum Awan
and Muneeza Sheikh
Human Rights Commissions have a mandate to address the very real problem of speech that subjects identifiable communities to hatred or contempt.
On Dec. 4, we announced that we had launched human rights complaints in Ontario, British Columbia and Ottawa against Maclean's magazine for its refusal to publish our response to its October 2006 article, "The Future belongs to Islam." This article claimed that due to lax immigration requirements and multiculturalism policies, Muslims are poised to take over entire Western societies and subject them to Islamic law, with the only question being "how bloody the transfer of real estate would be."
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