Ron: all it takes is one.

Vince P: Thank you for the links. This is a Law 101 site, so we will humour you a brief answer. Statements in Iran are obviously ultra vires to any tribunal in Canada. The context and delivery of these statements also appear markedly different than the ones in question here.

ActualLawyer: Appears from your IP address that you are from the US, like all the other readers here. As one of the other readers noted above, we do have slightly different perspectives about “free speech” in Canada.

John: Interesting insights from our southern neighbours.

There’s the problem. Do you honestly believe that any of Mark Steyn’s regular readers are even capable of a breach of the peace? Most of them are over 45 and employed. The worst they’ll do is start boycotting Pakistani restaurants.

As such, when some Imam defames Islam by pronouncing support of terrorism or a fatwa of murder, then he should be reported for breaking this law. After all, some of these comments are much more inflammatory than anything Steyn has written.

And that’s due to Mark Steyn and other writers critical of Muslims? Or maybe some Muslims did something on 9/11/01 which led to this hatred? I’ll have to go look it up.

At any rate, I don’t see how those gross figures are useful in indicting Steyn, whose column(s) should be judged on their own merits. (For example, if I say “kill the Muslims” at a public rally, then I should probably be prosecuted for saying what is “likely to lead to a breach of the peace” regardless of any proximate, let alone national, statistics on Muslim-killing.

Read one of the witness docuements as he evualated if the statements made about Islam were the truth:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/Witness%20Statement.pdf
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Iran: Europe will become a Muslim continent, says Khamenei’s spokesman

Tehran, 21 Dec. (AKI) – Europe will eventually become a Muslim continent, according to a representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

“In a dozen years, Europe will be an Islamic continent,” said Rasul Jalilzadeh on Friday as he was speaking to the basiji, a voluntary organisation in the capital Tehran.

“The Islamisation of the European continent is imminent and this step favours the arrival of the Mahdi,” he said, referring to the 12th imam of Shiite Islam.

Shiites believe that the Imam Mahdi, who disppeared as an adolescent, will return to bring an end to chaos and bring universal justice.

Rasul Jalilzadeh believes that “the Islamisation of Europe is one of the consequences of the Islamic revolution in Iran” in that “the messages and values that this revolution has transmitted to the Europeans, to convince them “to abandon their current faiths and convert to Shiite Islam.”

…I would hasten to agree.

As an American who both values his First Amendment rights and fears the madness of some believers of the faiths of Islam (submission to Allah) and socialism (submission to “do-gooders”), it behooves me to call attention to threats made by radical believers of both faiths.

I must say that your choice of persecution for non-believers in your socialist faith — threatening a man’s freedom, dragging him through the indignity of “cockamamie” quasi-legal (or faux-legal) proceedings — lacks something compared to the panache of Islam’s adherents. I don’t think anyone will dress up for Halloween as a “Human Rights” attorney; dressing up as a suicide bomber or beheader is way more hip and trendy!

“I think you definitively demonstrated that such hatred is a genuine problem in North America, and we should take it that much more seriously.”

So, one guy says something on a blog comment board, and that indicts the whole of North America? That’s about the same level of reasoning which would lead one to the conclusion that if one Muslim saws someone’s head off, then they all would.

These are Canadian lawyers, and so they have no concept remotely like American free speech. If you want freedom, head south. If you just want 11% beer, touques and backbacon, stay where you are.