Mark's da man!It’s a groundswell; no, it’s a movement.

The redoubtable Binks has started a new blog in defence of Mark Steyn and free speech against Canada’s Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Islamic Congress.  He has already posted tons of links and appropriate graphics, as well as a list of people to whom your brief and respectful opinions should be sent.

This is the opening snippet of the terribly offensive article, published in Maclean’s in October 2006 and still posted at the magazine’s website.

The future belongs to Islam

The Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it. It's the end of the world as we've known it. An excerpt from 'America Alone'.

MARK STEYN | Oct 20, 2006

Sept. 11, 2001, was not "the day everything changed," but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you'd said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century's principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.

This is about the seven-eighths below the surface — the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world. The key factors are: demographic decline; the unsustainability of the social democratic state; and civilizational exhaustion.

SoCon or Bust is sponsoring an online petition entitled “A Free Dominion Against the HRCs”.

The wanted poster at the top comes via Binks, as does this quote from Dante:

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.”

Here's one from Edmund Burke:

“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”

Free Mark Steyn!

I do believe it’s time to take out a subscription to Maclean’s.

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