Boreal

FADE TO BLACK

Triumph of the Irrational

Postscript

My demise will probably mean the end of boreal.ca as tens of thousands of you have known it for more than twenty years and where I have tried to live up to the tradition of Thomas Paine of explaining the seemingly complicated in terms we could all understand.

My everyman's writings on the Koran, Muhammad and Islam are part of what, with Lucette's passing, became a solitary campaign against the willful ignorance that will be our undoing.

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Thank you for dropping in, it's been fun; and considering the subject matter, you have been well-behaved guests.

What happens to boreal.ca is one thing, my books quite another. In Remembering Uzza, a character is prosecuted under a law that makes it a criminal offence to cause anyone “dogmatic distress” because of something they said or wrote. Under legislation making its way through Parliament that type of offence will likely become reality.

While Bill C-63 is ostensibly aimed at what is posted online, under new powers granted the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner by the legislation, they will be allowed to entertain and rule on any complaints filed by anyone alleging to have suffered the equivalent of dogmatic distress including from anticipating what has yet to be published. My books will definitely cause some readers to experience “dogmatic distress”, especially this one.

It does not bode well for anyone publishing or posting anything critical of Islam, especially with the recent appointment of a political Islamist* as Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

In my last will and testament I have instructed my executor to transfer all my published and unpublished material, including cover art, into the public domain. You will be free to publish any or all of my books under your own label, just give credit where credit is due. To make it easy, contents of all my books is available as web pages and as free downloadable PDFs. You may want to get ready now.

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* Islamism is commonly expressed as the desire to enforce a version of Shari’ah as law… An Islamist attempts to impose his version of Islam on society, and a jihadist is an Islamist who attempts to do so by force… Political Islamists seek to impose their views through the ballot box, biding their time until they can infiltrate the institutions of society from within.

Maajid Nawaz, author of Radical, My Journey out of Islamist Extremism Labels

Bernard Payeur