Harpoon Siddiqui Gets Loosey-Goosey With the Facts Re Free Speech

The prospect of the return of Canada's state censorship/anti-blasphemy provision sees the Toronto Star's resident shill for the Islam perspective salivating like mad:

Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack by 19 Arab Muslims, George W. Bush invaded Iraq for no other good reason than to whack an Arab/Muslim nation. Stephen Harper axed the anti-hate provision of Canada’s Human Rights Act for no other good reason than that it was hampering those wanting to rhetorically whack Arabs/Muslims. 

Harming people with words is better than killing them with bombs. But the Conservative majority in Parliament was disingenuous in invoking free speech last year to enable unfettered anti-Islamic speech. The same MPs and senators had not said boo about the law that had long protected other maligned minorities — Indians, Jews, Romas, gays, etc.  

What was good for the goose was not good for the Muslim gander...

Bollocks! In Canada today, the, er, "gander" can get away with spewing hate galore about "the Jooos." Meanwhile, geese who raise concerns about certain problematic aspects of Islam (jihad, sharia, supremacism, etc.) get demonized for being "Islamophobes."

But, yes, I can see why Harpoon is hoping to revive the Section 13 spirit. What I don't get is how some Jews remain convinced that Section 13 and/or our criminal hate speech laws will afford Jewry any protection in the face of Muslim-based Jew-hate.