Clear and Present Discrimination
I find this letter to the editor notable because 1) it was printed, 2) versions of it are consistently and unfailingly printed over and over and over in our mainstream media, 3) like all such letters it now includes the de rigeur pretense of "you have to print this letter" (as if it won't be printed) to mock the demand (finally) by Muslim Canadians for some balance in Macleans to counter its highly biased reportage of the "Islamic Menace" as defined by its Islamophobic columnists: HowManyLettersToTheEditorDoesItTakeToScrewInATerrorist?
But I'd like to know why such letter writers think the Muslim law students who take issue with the relentless publishing of anti-Muslim articles by Macleans shouldn't be allowed to continue to seek redress no matter how many times they are denied it? I mean, why should they be made to stop demanding a rebuttal in Macleans any more than Macleans should be forced to publish it - which, if it had any balls whatsoever (it doesn't) it would have done long before now? Really, there is such a bigoted double standard at play here, it's truly bizarre.
And this isn't a case of standing up for free speech and against press censorship - it's a case of denying fair comment. Because Macleans can and has denied fair comment on this issue and for some reason, everybody is on the attack against the people asking why.
