America Alone, in which author Mark Steyn raised the alarm about what he described as the Muslim takeover of Europe. This takeover, said Steyn, was occurring through high levels of immigration from Muslim countries and higher birth rates in Muslim families that had settled in the West. Steyn argued that Muslims wanted to impose Sharia law on European countries and were prepared to use a variety of means to achieve this end, including violence. He claimed that we are at “the dawn of a new Dark Ages” in which much of Europe will be “re-primitivized” by Muslims. Complaint made Macleans under a provision of the British Columbia Human Rights Code that prohibits the publication of hate speech. The complaint argued that