Mark Steyn Busted by the Thought Police

Canada's Thought Police are calling columnist Mark Steyn to task for expressing an "unpopular" opinion in his book, America Alone.

This is from today's New York Post:

Celebrated author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian judicial panels on charges linked to his book “America Alone."

The book, a No. 1 bestseller in Canada, argues that Western nations are succumbing to an Islamist imperialist threat. The fact that charges based on it are proceeding apace proves his point.

Steyn, who won the 2006 Eric Breindel Journalism Award (co-sponsored by The Post and its parent, News Corp), writes for dozens of publications on several continents. After the Canadian general-interest magazine Maclean's reprinted a chapter from the book, five Muslim law-school students, acting through the auspices of the Canadian Islamic Congress, demanded that the magazine be punished for spreading “hatred and contempt" for Muslims.

The plaintiffs allege that Maclean's advocated, among other things, the notion that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada's liberalized, Western civilization. They insist such a notion is untrue and, in effect, want opinions like that banned from publication.

This is what Canada has come to and it's exactly what the politically correct leftists here in Amerika are determined to have happen as well. More than any other leftist policy, the goal of policing thought and silencing opposing opinion is taking us down the road to totalitarianism.

So much for tolerance and diversity!

Hopefully, the idealogically deaf, dumb and blind will wake up to what's happening before their very eyes before it's too late. I can't even imagine what it's going to take to wake up this lethargic and complacent country.