I was hoping for more from this book than being led through Steyn's problems with a semi-official Canadian agency having the power to harass persons who sound off against Islam. I wasn't disappointed. Present therein are certain of Steyn's essays bearing on his subject. They were new to me and well worth reading. They are in the form of columns written for Maclean's, National Review Online, Western Standard, Irish Times, Steynposts and other media. From the material collected in <Lights Out> the reader gets an interesting rundown on what it is like for the Thinking Man to exist in the toils of a thought-controlling state. Steyn triggered the ire of complainants who were offended by his published take on Islam. Those complainants went before the Ontario Human Rights commission with their case. Their complaints were against Steyn and Maclean's Magazine who published the "offending" material -- offensive because allegedly it belittled Islam. The book basically is about all that transpired as a result of said complaint. If you the reader of this review are unfamiliar with what a thin-skinned, quasi-religious entity can legally do when someone offends it in a state that claims to have jurisdiction over such trivia, you absolutely must read Steyn's book. You'll be left speechless.
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Your reviewer readily admits that it would please him to see Quranic Islam disappear from the face of the earth. That barbaric, quasi-religious, misogynistic, closed-minded life- system, the tenets of which are to be observed in the current, cruel actions of ISIS, has been a canker on non-Muslim society ever since Muhammad had his first visit from the Angel Gabriel. I'm pretty sure that what I write here would qualify to get me into legal trouble in any one of the so-called human-rights-protective countries of Western Europe. Everyone in the USA should be thankful that we live in a place where we can still say what we think and be Constitutionally protected.
- Hardcover: 322 pages
- Publisher: Stockade Books; 1St Edition edition (April 13, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0973157054
- ISBN-13: 978-0973157055
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