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B'nai Brith Canada Steps Up To The Plate

[This is normally the kind of straightforward post I would put on my own blog, but Blogger has frozen my account until I can prove I am a human being and not an automated bot.
(That. should. be. no. problem...)]

I imagine this is in response to the whole Mark Steyn case, but it is badly needed in the US as well:

'Major overhaul of human rights commissions urgently needed,' says B'nai Brith Canada

...Among the changes that B'nai Brith Canada is advocating, Matas highlighted the following:

• "Commissions cannot become avenues of harassment in which complaints are simultaneously made in several jurisdictions. The remedy is to introduce rules that will allow for one jurisdiction only.
  
  
• "Commissions do not operate in a vacuum and must have an understanding of the geo-political context within which they operate. The remedy for ignorance is education and training. Investigators must be required to undertake compulsory in-house courses that meet these needs. They must always be able to distinguish between hate and protected political speech.
  
  
• "Costs must be levied against those whose clear aim is to abuse the system by launching attacks designed to harass bona fide respondents. This would be a deterrent against those who deliberately seek to hijack and corrupt the human rights system in pursuit of their own ideological bent."

B'nai Brith Canada will shortly be submitting a full brief on this issue to University of Windsor Law Professor, Richard J. Moon, who was hired by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to conduct a review of the Commission's mandate to combat hatred.

This is the sort of thing the US needs as well to counter CAIR. The problem?

"Commissions do not operate in a vacuum and must have an understanding of the geo-political context within which they operate. The remedy for ignorance is education and training. Investigators must be required to undertake compulsory in-house courses that meet these needs.

So just who is going to provide those compulsory courses? How would one justify why B'nai Brith (for example) should be providing those courses instead of CAIR? The issue may not be the ignorance as much as who will do the educating--and where the person who makes that choice get his 'education'.

by Daled Amos
Posted by daledamos at August 1, 2008 9:35 AM