Celebrate Conformity

by Mark Steyn
The Corner on National Review Online
February 10, 2010

http://www.legal-project.org/652/celebrate-conformity

Excerpt:

In The Australian, Janet Albrechtsen has a fine column on Western democracies'accelerating retreat from core liberties. She touches on the Wilders trial in the Netherlands and your humble correspondent's recent travails up north, in both of which cases the state is happy to sacrifice freedom of expression in the cause of hedging the sensitivities of Islam with special protections. But what struck me most about Janet's piece was her local angle. I've been musing for years on how the illusions of multicultural tolerance have been hijacked by the avowedly unicultural and intolerant, but you could hardly have a more parodic example than Omar Hassan.

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