B.C. panel sides with magazine
Human rights tribunal dismisses complaint against 2006 article about Islam in Maclean's

by Petti Fong
TheStar.com
October 15, 2008

http://www.legal-project.org/121/bc-panel-sides-with-magazine

Excerpt:

VANCOUVER–Maclean's magazine has won a human rights complaint filed against it over an article that the Canadian Islamic Congress claimed incited hatred against Muslims.

In a ruling released yesterday, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal rejected the complaint that the 2006 article violated Canada's anti-hate laws.

The article, entitled "Why the future belongs to Islam," was an excerpt of a book written by Mark Steyn in which he used statistics such as birth rates among Muslims to argue that Islam was on the rise while the West was in decline.

In June, during a week-long hearing before the three-member tribunal, lawyers for Maclean's argued the issue was one of free speech and claimed the tribunal had no jurisdiction.

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