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Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

With all due respect, you really missed the boat on this one.

No one is claiming its their "human right" to force Macleans' to follow the dictates of one particular group.

What they are claiming, in case you missed it, is that human rights is about "...promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion." [link] And if Macleans' is routinely engaging in smear jobs, maligning, and broad character assassinations of entire groups [in this case, Muslims in the West and in Canada, particularly] then yes, there will be a challenge to such behavior within appropriate context.

I mean, how would this be any different from the Serbs writing malicious propaganda pieces against Croats and Bosniaks, exclusive and prior to any physical hostilities?

Thanks for the uh... Wikipedia link. The only way I can see them leveraging any legal action is if they call this hate speech. Which it falls far short of. This isn't a teacher who's got a classroom full of impressionable young students with no escape... it's a journalist who wrote an opinion piece. It may be a very strong opinion, alarmist and utterly absurd. But it's a long shot to say that what he was writing was a violation of human rights. Give me a break. I like Timbit's strategy... vote with your dollars, voice concern about Maclean's - but claiming this as hate speech is seriously reaching.