I asked a reporter why the Globe and Mail had not covered the human rights issue as a news story. He kind of shrugged it off, as if the deep pockets of Maclean’s somehow mitigated the abusiveness of the process. He also insisted that complainants could get their costs covered. Well, maybe in some jurisdiction that I haven’t heard of, but I reminded him that Calgary Bishop Fred Henry was left paying thousands in legal fees even though the complaints against him were eventually dropped. He told me he thought the complaints were ridiculous, mind you, but otherwise the story was kind of ho hum. All was well in Canada.

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For those who are not ignorant of what’s going on, I wonder whether there is a weird Stockholm syndrome at work. Rather than see they are being held hostage by their fear of radical Islam, (and tiptoeing so as not to offend or blaspheme so foreign correspondents won’t get kidnapped or worse) they have displaced their fear and loathing onto the people who write about it. They are like the bank robbery hostages or hijacked plane passengers who get pissed off at police for shooting their captors. They have identified with their captors, even formed a bond with them, for their own psychological survival. If the captors see that I like them, they will like me and I will come out of this okay they tell themselves.

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-06-02-0001/

Meanwhile the west slowly crumbles, as did Rome all those centuries ago.

A report by Prison Service officials identifies an “ongoing theme of fear and instability” among staff at Whitemoor, and says the large number of Muslim inmates appears to be “engendering fear and handing control to the prisoners.” The Observer story linked above adds that white prisoners arriving at the jail are routinely warned about the Muslim gangs by staff.

While some of the blame for the situation is put down to poor training of prison officers, low morale, and lack of “cultural sensitivity,” the Prison Service report adds that staff at the jail “appeared reluctant to challenge inappropriate behavior, in particular among BME (black and ethnic minority) prisoners for fear of doing the wrong thing,” which was leading to the “power dynamic” shifting towards inmates.

And, all too predictably, the government’s response to the situation at Whitemoor reads like a satire on officialdom hobbled by the demands of multiculturalism and political correctness:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/muslim-gangs-taking-over-british-prisons/

Gosh a group of blacks threatening whites sounds like a hate crime!  And one the left will damn well make sure is never punished no matter how abhorrent.