{"id":10316,"date":"2010-10-21T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2010-10-21T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:30:45","slug":"london-ontario-caves-in-to-muslims-demanding-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/london-ontario-caves-in-to-muslims-demanding-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"London Ontario caves in to Muslims demanding censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/strictlyright.com\/2010\/10\/breaking-conference-facility-caves-to-pressure-from-islamic-groups-bans-mark-steyn-from-speaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strictly Right sent out a press release earlier today to Canadian media with some rather startling news about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strictlyright.com\/marksteyn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Steyn speech<\/a> in London, Ontario that we\u2019re putting together. Mark Steyn will be speaking on November 1st in a speech entitled \u201c<strong>Head for the Hills: Why everything in your world is doomed<\/strong>.\u201d Apparently, London-area Muslims didn\u2019t like that idea too much.<\/p>\n<p>Due to capacity constraints at the University of Western Ontario, the original venue for the event, we had booked the London Convention Centre (LCC,) London\u2019s premiere conference facility. On Tuesday, I received a phone call from the LCC telling us that our venue had been pulled, and that Mark Steyn would not be permitted to speak there. The reason offered by the LCC was that they had received pressure from local Islamic groups, and they didn\u2019t want to alienate their Muslim clients. It\u2019s interesting to note that the LCC is owned by the City of London, and is therefore a government operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m sure <em>these<\/em> Islamic groups are populated with moderate Muslims \u2013 just like the moderate Muslims who want to build a victory mosque at ground zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Strictly Right sent out a press release earlier today to Canadian media with some rather startling news about the upcoming Mark Steyn speech in London, Ontario that we\u2019re putting together. Mark Steyn will be speaking on November 1st &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/london-ontario-caves-in-to-muslims-demanding-censorship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[574,2178,1055],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-censorship","tag-islam","tag-mark-steyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}