Vive La Resistance!--For Now

Mark Steyn, a chap who's had his innings with the bullies who keep the thoughts of Canadians "pure," is on the whole cheered by the Lars Hedegaard acquittal. "This is an encouraging verdict," says Steyn,

because it shows how easily the statist enablers for Islamic imperialism crumble to dust when you shine a light on them. That's why it's important to internationalize these cases - to emphasize that Ezra Levant is Elisabeth Sabaditsch Wolf is Geert Wilders is Lars Hedegaard. As Ayaan Hirsi Ali says, we have to spread the risk, so that the Islamic supremacist thugs understand that they will have to kill us all. So it is a victory, if not for free speech then at least for the western resistance.

Hear, hear. Of course, soon enough that resistance will have to contend with spiralling Muslim demographics--By 2030 Canada's Muslim population to triple, according to the headline in today's National Post. That's likely to advance the cause of halal-approved soups and sharia financing, but unlikely to do much good for the resistance or for our fundamental freedoms, least of all free speech (a big no-no for those with a sharia-infused worldview, wary as they are of "blasphemy" and the impudent loudmouths who practise it).