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Jay Currie

One Damn Thing After Another

6/11/2003

Now for a few Muslim clerics



A former chief of the Assembly of First Nations has been charged with promoting hatred, Saskatchewan's Justice Department announced Wednesday.
David Ahenakew, who is also an Order of Canada member, became the centre of controversy last December when he told a Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter that Adolf Hitler came to power in response to the "disease" of Jewish domination.
He also said Hitler was attempting to "clean up the world" when he "fried" six million Jews in the Holocaust.
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This is a good example of an appropriate use of anti-hate speech laws. Ahenakew was over the top. While I would hope that the judge in the case will accept his public mortification as ample punishment. The point of the anti-hate speech laws should be to call people to order not to put them in jail.