As I mentioned the other day, Ezra Levant, my comrade in the battle to restore free speech to Canada, is being sued by the same Islamist sock puppet who attempted to make me legallly unpublishable up north. Robert Sibley in the Ottawa Citizen puts it this way:

Awan and his Muslim friends weren’t really concerned about rights or justice or wanting to be treated the same as other Canadians. Nope, it was all about making it too expensive for anyone to dare criticize Islam.

They are aided in that objective by the soft totalitarianism of the multicultural state, which in Europe and Canada increasingly presumes the right to police the citizenry’s opinions in the interests of social mediation. (I see the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission is now appealing its first legal setback in three decades — in part, thanks to the efforts of Ezra and me: See us testifying to Parliament here.) Barry Rubin writes:

A state that puts people on trial for things they’ve said, written, or drawn — as have the Netherlands and Canada’s human rights commissions, to name but two — is no longer a truly democratic country. Or how about the United Kingdom where, for example, a blogger who accurately depicted an Anglican cleric as a Holocaust denier and an associate of Islamist terrorists received a threatening visit by police? In the same country, the police tried to prosecute a television network for showing videos of sermons taken inside mosques, though a court finally ruled that the police (that is, the taxpayers) had to pay damages to the television network.

The Islamo-left alliance is attempting to criminalize discussion of public policy. As Geert Wilders’s Dutch prosecutors admit, whether what he says is true is not relevant; the very act of raising the subject is illegal.