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<p align="center"><font color="#ff0000"><b>&#8212; <a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/the-contest-thusfar/">CONTEST! &#8212; CONTEST! &#8212; CONTEST!</a> &#8212;</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/contest-entries-page/" target="_blank"><b>The Entries Thusfar</b></a></p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/red-alert-go-do/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/img100.imageshack.us/img100/8310/supportm446et6.gif" border="0" /></a></div>
<p align="justify"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/img401.imageshack.us/img401/5200/fingerpointing02717a04fyf2.png" align="left" hspace="6" vspace="6" /><font size="-1">~ <a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/actionables/" target="_blank"><b>REMEMBER</b></a> </font><font size="-1">your actionables: <b>write, call, speak out, letters to the editor</b> (and remember to mention the url <b>FreeMarkSteyn.com</b> in all of them). The &#8216;Echo-Chamber&#8217; effect of the blogosphere is not enough to bring about real-world change. It&#8217;s our country, and our freedom to lose. Get to work</font>. And <a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/red-alert-go-do/" target="_blank">remember MP Keith Martin, too</a>. Harper &amp; Co. be darned: make yourself heard! &#8230; <i><font size="-2">(FreeMarkSteyn.com</font></i><i><font size="-2">)</font></i></p>
<h2>Steyn News</h2>
<p><a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/the-contest-thusfar/" target="_blank"><img src="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/contest.png?w=207&#038;h=199" align="left" border="1" height="199" hspace="8" vspace="8" width="207" /></a></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmZhZTg1NWQ0MmViNTlmMjU2N2U1NjdhMDcxYzM2MWI=" target="_blank"><b>STEYN ON LIGHTS OUT</b></a>: &#8220;Nathan, what I like about Google &#8220;going dark&#8221; in support of &#8220;Earth Hour&#8221; is that it, in fact, uses more energy than the regular old white screen&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(nrotc)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www2.nysun.com/article/73747" target="_blank"><b>AMANDA GORDON</b></a>&#8212; &#8220;A female magnet is perhaps not the first description of Mr. Steyn that comes to mind.&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(nysun)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2269249,00.html" target="_blank"><b>MARK IS ICKY</b></a>: &#8220;Grown-ups know to treat with caution the writings of Mark Steyn in the National Review&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(guardian)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"><!--more-->~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2008/03/spiffy-new-marketing-collateral-from.html" target="_blank"><b>A SPIFFY NEW</b></a> marketing collateral from the Canadian Human Rights Commission  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(blazingcatfur.blog)</font></i></p>
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<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/03/30/hate-crimes-laws-working-now-in-canada/" target="_blank"><b>&#8216;HATE CRIMES&#8217;</b></a> Laws: Working now in Canada  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(anglican-mainstream)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"><a href="https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/MH/MME/MME_apr07_sudoko_3.jsp?cds_page_id=36313&amp;cds_mag_code=MME&amp;id=1199645524227&amp;lsid=80061252041023848&amp;vid=1&amp;cds_response_key=V75ABNRWN&amp;cds_mag_code=MME" target="_blank"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/img87.imageshack.us/img87/1508/macleansmg0.gif" align="right" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="8" /></a> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2ExZTFjNzY0YzkyM2Y3MWU2OTEzOWZkNTA5ZDdjZmM=" target="_blank"><b>NROTC</b></a>: &#8220;The pope gets jihad. The U.N. doesn&#8217;t. And he knows that too&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(nrotc)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/03/face-of-moderate-islam-in-britain.html" target="_blank"><b>THE FACE OF</b></a> Moderate Islam in Britain&#8211; by Paul Weston: &#8220;St. George in the EastThe Muslim beating handed out to Canon Michael Ainsworth, priest at the St George-in-the-East church of Shadwell, East London earlier this month and last week’s conviction of a Muslim for the rape of a 27 year old woman in nearby Whitechapel during 2005 share a surprisingly common link in the attitudes and associates of The Muslim Council of Britain&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(gatesofvienna.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.socon.ca/or_bust/?p=808" target="_blank"><b>PACHECO</b></a>: &#8220;The Double-Sided Fax&#8221;; <a href="http://www.socon.ca/or_bust/?p=807" target="_blank">The Spy Who Shagged My Internet Connection</a> &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(socon.ca)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://pundita.blogspot.com/2008/03/ontario-qc-supports-my-prediction-that.html" target="_blank"><b>PUNDITA</b></a>: &#8220;An Ontario QC supports my prediction that Marc Lemire will be acquitted&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(pundita.blog)</font></i><img src="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/mandarin.jpg?w=116&#038;h=116" align="left" height="116" width="116" /></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=3460" target="_blank"><b>HUMAN RIGHTS</b></a> commissions Mandarin Athanasios Hadjis doesn’t allow transcripts while depriving people of the right to Free Speech  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(marginalizedactiondinosaur)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.darrellepp.com/?p=103" target="_blank"><b>DARRELL EPP</b></a>&#8212; &#8220;Forget ‘Global Warming’ and Start Worrying About ‘Demographic Winter’&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(darrellepp)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29433_Beware_of_Saudis_Bringing_Gifts&amp;only" target="_blank"><b>SHINY JIHAD</b></a>&#8212; Beware of Saudis Bringing Gifts  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(lgf)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://dustmybroom.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3074&amp;Itemid=1" target="_blank"><b>FEEL THE HATE</b></a>: &#8220;National essay contest on history of ethnic cleansing in Palestine&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(dustmybroom)</font></i><img src="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/indiaflag.jpg?w=121&#038;h=81" align="right" height="81" hspace="9" vspace="9" width="121" /></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B870EAA8-DC54-462B-8857-3AB88E021202" target="_blank"><b>INDIA&#8217;S STANDOFF</b></a> With Jihad&#8211; By: Frontpagemag.com. Can India counter the Islamic challenge on its own? A distinguished panel joins Frontpage  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(frontpagemag)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2008/03/time-to-conside.html" target="_blank"><b>TIME TO</b></a> consider some differences between Catholicism and Islam. <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1993564/posts" target="_blank">The Story of a Convert from Islam</a> – Baptized by the Pope at St. Peter&#8217;s  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(insightscoop, freerep)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/011099.html" target="_blank"><b>EVIL? WE&#8217;LL AID &amp; ABET</b></a>! Marching for tyranny&#8230; in Toronto. The best part is that the pro-Communist Chinese, who presumably had to leave their paradise of a nation to find a decent education or non-sweatshop job, had the chutzpah to tell the Tibetans to get out of Canada; In Canada, <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2391" target="_blank">Chinese Media Stir Up Anger</a> Against Tibetans. <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2411" target="_blank">City of Toronto owes its Tibetan citizens an apology</a> &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(damianpenny, cfp)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-03-29-0007/" target="_blank"><b>SHAIDLE</b></a>: &#8220;Rave review of my new book&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(fivefeetoffury)</font></i></p>
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<p align="justify"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/img186.imageshack.us/img186/7854/birthdaypresent7copy97cri7.png" align="left" height="107" hspace="8" vspace="8" width="132" />~ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&amp;type=wishlist&amp;id=39EB8CYQWXTU8" target="_blank"><b>FEEL THE JOY</b></a>! Share the excitement of the lucky Shelley Ide, who sent along to us here at FMS-HQ &#8216;<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/President-Pope-Prime-Minister-Changed/dp/1596980168/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1205431526&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">The President, the Pope, and The Prime Minister</a>: Three Who Changed The World</i>&#8216; ..  her note: &#8220;<i>With gratitude for FreeMarkSteyn. Enjoy!</i>&#8221; Appreciate this blog? We&#8217;re not being paid either by the Massive Right Wing Conspiracy, or the Zionist-Industrial Complex. Thankfully giving tribute to FMS from <i>Amazon.com</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&amp;type=wishlist&amp;id=39EB8CYQWXTU8" target="_blank">via the handy-dandy Binks Wishlist</a> may indeed cause life-changing paroxysms of happiness to the givers. Give now! Give often! For your <i>own</i> good! <font size="-1">&#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(Shameless Swag-Hustling)</font></i></p>
<div align="center"><font size="-1"><i><b>Get the Shirt! </b></i></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="-1"><a href="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/pimping-our-swag/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.fivefeetoffury.com/2008/01.28/0014/frespecgbanbi6.png" height="100" width="400" /></a></font></div>
<h2>Ezra</h2>
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<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/03/lorne-gunters-best-column-yet.html" target="_blank"><b>LORNE GUNTER&#8217;S</b></a> best column yet on the HRCs  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(ezralevant.com)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/03/what-do-stephane-dion-and-ezra.html" target="_blank"><b>WHAT DO</b></a> Stephane Dion and Ezra Levant have in common?  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(ezralevant)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/03/nigel-hannaford-in-todays-calg.html" target="_blank"><b>VIA EZ</b></a>:&#8221;Nigel Hannaford in today&#8217;s Calgary Herald&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(ezralevant.com)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/03/cbc-sunday-on-human-rights-com.html" target="_blank"><b>CBC SUNDAY</b></a> on human rights commissions  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(ezralevant.com)</font></i><b></b></p>
<h2 align="center"><font color="#ff0000">GET TO WORK!</font></h2>
<div style="text-align:center;"><i>“</i>I truly believe we’re winning. The HRCs are being denormalized; now we have to turn our attention to the politicians who can do something about it. Let’s write to <a href="http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=78343&amp;Language=E">Martin</a>, <a href="http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=78335&amp;Language=E">Nicholson </a>and <a href="http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=78865&amp;Language=E">Kenney</a>, and encourage them to do the right thing. Better yet, let’s phone them — and the <a href="http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=78553&amp;Language=E">Prime Minister</a>, too. If we keep at them, the way we have been these past months, I believe we will see the beginnings of true reform before the year is out.<i>.”</i></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><b>&#8211; The Manly <a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/03/a-day-in-the-life-of-canadas-k.html" target="_blank">Ezra Levant</a> &#8211;</b></div>
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<h2>Having A Fitna</h2>
<div align="center"><b>Fitna</b><br />
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<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=3488" target="_blank"><b>GEERT WILDERS</b></a> merely asks Muslims to begin reforming Islam  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(marginalizedactiondinosaur)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020497.php" target="_blank"><b>FITNA RAGE</b></a> rolls on; Pak jihadist threatens: &#8220;Foreigners will be attacked. The situation will change, change, change&#8221;; <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020500.php" target="_blank">One Muslim Leftist&#8217;s time could have been better spent</a>!  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(JiWa)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/fitna-now-censored-in-uk.html" target="_blank"><b><s>BRITAINS NEVER</s></b><s></s></a><s> never never will be slaves</s> Fitna now censored in the UK; <a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/fitna-challenge-of-islam.html" target="_blank">Fitna- the ‘challenge’ of Islam</a>  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(archbishop-cranmer.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2008/03/sobering-reality.html" target="_blank"><b>A SOBERING REALITY</b></a>: &#8220;No wonder Islamic apologists don&#8217;t want this movie to be seen&#8230;. Go take 15 minutes and watch Geert Wilder&#8217;s film &#8220;FITNA&#8221; over at HotAir&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(drsanity.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=55" target="_blank"><b>ANOTHER COPY</b></a> of &#8216;Fitna&#8217; for linking; <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2008/03/fitna-movie-geert-wilders.html" target="_blank">Fitna the Movie</a> &#8211; Geert Wilders &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(vladtepesblog, blazingcatfur.blog)</font></i></p>
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<div align="center"><i>Pakistani protesters march during a rally protesting both a recent Dutch Film that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, and the Danish newspaper cartoon images of Muhammad from Sept. 2005, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, March. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (Mohammad Zubair &#8211; AP)</i></div>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2372" target="_blank"><b>BELIEN</b></a>&#8212; &#8220;Appeasing the Islamists: Geert Wilders’s Ordeal and the Lessons of the Past&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(canadafreepress)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020495.php" target="_blank"><b>A CANADIAN DHIMMIDIOT</b></a>&#8212; U.N.&#8217;s Arbour on Fitna: &#8220;They should offer strong protective measures to all forms of freedom of expression, while at the same time enacting appropriate restrictions, as necessary, to protect the rights of others&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(JiWa)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=97569&amp;start=0&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;highlight=" target="_blank"><b>JIHADI SCUM SNARLS</b></a>&#8212; &#8220;Congratulations Geert&#8221;, who also has &#8220;<a href="http://revolution.muslimpad.com/2008/03/27/a-message-from-tariq-abdelhaleem-the-father-of-one-of-the-toronto-18-and-our-message-to-him/" target="_blank">A message from Tariq Abdelhaleem</a>, the father of one of the ‘Toronto 18&#8242; &#8211; and our message to him&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(freedominion.com, revolution.muslimpad.com)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-brother-dutch-moonbats-open-im-sorry.html" target="_blank"><b>GATEWAY PUNDIT</b></a>&#8212; Oh Brother&#8230; Dutch Moonbats Open &#8220;I&#8217;m Sorry&#8221; for Fitna Website; <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020498.php" target="_blank">Dutch businesses threaten to sue Wilders over Fitna</a> &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(gatewaypundit.blog, JiWa)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2401" target="_blank"><b>WITH THE RELEASE</b></a> of Fitna, it is a good time to consider the question of freedom in the face of Jihadist terror  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(canadafreepress)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/03/fjordman-reviews-fitna.html" target="_blank"><b>FJORDMAN</b></a> Reviews “Fitna”;  <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/03/rosetta-stone-for-fitna-part-three.html" target="_blank">A Rosetta Stone for “Fitna”</a>: Part Three  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(gatesofvienna.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/03/iran-reads-riot-act-to-dutch.html" target="_blank"><b>TOLERANT IRAN</b></a> Reads the Riot Act to the Dutch  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(gatesofvienna.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/fitna_the_movie_defeating_isla.html" target="_blank"><b>AMERICA THINKER</b></a>&#8212; &#8220;Fitna the movie defeating Islamic censorship &#8211; Andrew Walden&#8221;  &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(americanthinker.com)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/03/samizdat.html" target="_blank"><b>THE BRAVE SOULS @</b></a> Liveleak pulled Geert Wilder&#8217;s Fitna after receiving serious threats. Mark Steyn quotes the news and comments &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(belmont.blog)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=3489" target="_blank"><b>MARGISAUR</b></a>: UN says quoting is hate, presumably Mohammad agrees &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(marginalizedactiondinosaur)</font></i></p>
<p align="justify"> ~ <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020501.php" target="_blank"><b><s>FRENCH</s></b></a> Aussie Foreign Minister: Fitna&#8217;s connection of Islam with acts of violence &#8220;offensive&#8221; &#8230;. </font><i><font size="-2">(jihadwatch)</font></i></p>
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