Read this story from Pravda. No oops sorry it’s from a western source, Reuters.
Radio Station Rapped for Anti-Sikh Insults
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:42:59 PM ETOTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian radio station was formally reprimanded on Wednesday after one of its presenters insulted immigrants to Canada and then said the Sikhs of northern India were “a gang of bozos”.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said the item on Montreal’s CKAC-FM was “abusive and unduly discriminatory” and ordered the station to make a public apology.
Immigration is a sensitive issue in Canada, one of the few western countries that still accepts large numbers of immigrants each year.
In a show broadcast in December 2003, CKAC-FM presenter Pierre Mailloux told listeners that immigrants who came to Canada should abandon their habits and traditions.
“You cultural communities come from a wacko country. You live a wacko culture. Don’t bring it with you. That’s the message to convey,” he said.
Later in the show he remarked: “I flee northern India because the Sikhs are a gang, a gang of bozos, and then I bring all that with me. No, no, you really don’t get it. If you flee your country because it makes no sense, then don’t bring those senseless things with you.”
The standards council said that while freedom of expression laws entitled Mailloux to express his opposition to wide-scale immigration, he had gone too far with his anti-Sikh comments.
“(We) consider that the host is entitled to espouse his chauvinistic intolerance until such time as his disrespect leaks into individual races and nationalities, as it did when he referred to the Sikhs as ‘a gang of bozos’,” it said.
The radio station said Mailloux had shown “manifest ignorance of the immigration policies and procedures in Canada” and said it had told him to “show more compassion and reserve concerning immigrants”.
In June of 2004, the mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell (a member of the NDP-supported civic party “COPE”, which was founded by communists), was heard to say at a huge national mayors’ conference, words to this effect: Conservatives are barbarians. Again: “barbarians”. This, from a big-city mayor—of my home town yet—to me and my wife and the likes of us—just prior to a federal election. It wasn’t overheard while he was in the toilet, it was at a news scrum or news conference. Broadcast all over the land. I heard it with my own ears.
Liberals who worked for Chretien/Martin were heard to say that Americans are “morons” and “idiots” and that they
“hate those bastards”.
Conservatives in Canada are routinely called “Nazis” on public web sites.
Welcome to liberal-land. Where nobody cares that this goes on until it happens to people who vote liberal. Then there’s outrage, scorn, indignation. From the Canadian state censor. Vote liberal.
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