Coulter update



Leftist thugs shut down a talk by Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa but she was not completely silenced in Canada

"Right-wing U.S. pundit Ann Coulter's comments to a Muslim student in London earlier this week were "distasteful" but don't qualify as hate speech, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association general counsel said Thursday.

"It is distasteful speech," Nathalie Des Rosiers said before speaking to The Windsor Star's editorial board. "It's appropriate to challenge her to say how inappropriate and silly an example it is, but it doesn't amount to hate speech."

Des Rosiers said hate speech in Canada is defined as a direct invitation to inflict violence and Coulter's comments didn't reach that level.

Coulter gained media attention this week for a speech at the University of Western Ontario where she declared that Muslims should be banned from flying on airplanes.

When a Muslim woman asked Coulter how she would be able to get around, Coulter repled that she could "take a camel."

Des Rosiers defended Coulter's right to free speech even if she doesn't support her views.

Coulter's comments caused a protest and the cancellation of her speech at the University of Ottawa Tuesday and increased security at a scheduled Thursday night speech at the University of Calgary.

Universities should pay for extra security so controversial speakers like Coulter can be heard, Des Rosiers said.

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At Ann Coulter event, 'lots of hate speech -- from students'

Two letters:

"On Tuesday night I was one of several hundred people who waited patiently in the Ottawa rain to hear what Ann Coulter had to say, but alas it was not to be. It was an interesting experience being called a racist bigot and other slurs by a cadre of unruly and rude students, whose education is subsidized by my tax dollars.

Then in yesterday's National Post, letter-writer Denise Cooke Browne asks the great unwashed not to "show up at [Ms. Coulter's] talks."

Contempt prior to investigation: Doesn't that constitute bias?
Ms. Cooke Browne also boasts of having been a former journalist and human rights investigator. It was fortunate I did not have to appear before her; I wouldn't have stood a chance.

Geraldine Hyland, Orleans, Ont.

While watching television coverage of Ann Coulter's aborted speech at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday, I saw no free speech but plenty of hate speech and threats of violence --from the students.

Sharon Quickfall, Edmonton.

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Posted by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).