BC Reporter: Free Speech Defenders Correct, But Shouldn’t Batter People

[Lillooet News] The hysteria greeting a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing on charges that Maclean’s magazine incited hatred against Muslims is kind of creepy.

The critics of the process are right; it is a threat to free speech. And the issues are important. 
But the rhetoric and the casting of the case as the last battleground in defence of Western civilization has been over the top. By time the hearing concluded, the public battering of the Muslim complainants started to look a lot like a one-sided schoolyard brawl.

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