Offending Christians
Ezra Levant seems to find equivalency in Kenneth Hotz flying a plane over Toronto pulling a banner reading "Jesus Sucks" to the ongoing media bias against Muslims in our post 9/11 New World order of a War on Terrorism - although he seems to think Dean Skoreyko, who has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against Kenneth Hotz, will have his complaint tossed out because the stunt was aimed at Christians, not Muslims.
But Christians are a majority and hold all the real power in this country - still - so my guess is that the complaint will be thrown out because it is unlikely to expose Christians to "hatred or contempt" in the sense that it would have any impact at all on the majority religion that continues to run our country as if it didn't protect elements in it as Patriarchal and backward as any other religion - including Islam. (Although, if Conservative Christians actually followed the teachings of Christ as opposed to the partisan politics of Conservative politicians and religious leaders, Christianity would be much less offensive to minorities, such as Feminists...)
Oh, and NOT that I believe for a second in the right of any citizen to take any other citizen to a Human Rights Commission over a perceived speech offence, Neil MacDonald, even though I am a Feminist and on the Left.
And what about a "Mohammed Sucks" banner being trailed from a plane flying over Toronto? Would a complaint against the perp of such a stunt go forward at a Human Rights Commission? Well, Muslims are a minority in this country - a minority which has been exposed to ongoing "hatred and contempt" by such mainstream press as Macleans magazine (our supposed national newsmagazine) - and since even a complaint against it was thrown out by a HRC as not meeting the criteria necessary for a complaint to proceed, my guess is no.
That taxpayer dollars are being spent investigating these tit-for-tat complaints is what should annoy Canadians - but I guess that's what we've decided free speech is all about in this country - proving you haven't violated speech rights to a fellow citizen of another religion, sexual orientation, political point of view...
