re: #21 MandyManners

What are those reasons? It’s racist to point out legal facts?

Actually…(lol) This reminds me of CBC shortly after 9/11. In retrospect it was not without its amusing moments…that’s when CBC did a major media blitz to vindicate the religion of Islam…and to focus on the multitude of “failings” of the West and to deny (vociferously) that any “problems” existed with the religion of Islam. (notably, of course, the biggest endorsers of “Islam means peace!” in the light of 9/11 weren’t Muslims.) Anywho, then we here in Canada (or at least those who were back then still listening to the CBC) would be given daily lessons on Islam, its precepts, its pacificity, and to be contrasted with the horrors of Christianity, the horrors of the Crusaders, the horrors the Muslim world daily endures at the hands of Westerners, etc. And on the “black-list” of the CBC was, of course, Samuel Huntington. Why? Because Samuel Huntington had the unmitigated audacity to write that “Islam has bloody borders.” For days, nay, weeks, months, years, it was pounded into every CBC listener that to even hint that “Islam has bloody borders” was to become instantaneously the world’s worst racist. Thus, this phrase, along with, of course, the word “terrorist” became, in the lexicon of the CBC, taboo. These were the words that could not be spoken by any journalist (the CBC went so far as to substitute the word “militant” for “terrorist” even when directly quoting a source without bothering to let their listeners, readers, know that they had substituted words. Hence they were not even allowed to quote people accurately…that’s how mindless the CBC bureaucracy is…) Anyway, the “Peretz is a racist meme” is also par for the course. Anyone who would dare suggest that cultures might differ (or have different values) is, again, instantly branded “Racist!” that’s done so that all conversation ceases. There’s was an interesting (controversial) book published in 2001 — “Culture Matters” — co-edited by Huntington which explored these politically incorrect, taboo topics…it’s worth the read…(can look it up at amazon.com, etc.)