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Page THE HERALD Wednesday March Manufacturing centre proposed Acton Landfill Owners of the Mansewood In dustrial Park in southern Halton Hills want to build a 29297 square metre 315000 square ft plumb ing manufacturing and distribu tion centre on the land Trie centre which would include office facilities would sit on the back portion of a parcel of land on the north side of Sideroad east of Highway 25 The Halton Hills Official Plan currently designates the land rural industrial but the project had been put on hold when plans first surfac ed in because that designa tion had not yet been formalized by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs The ministry has recently designated a parcel at Mansewood rural industrial while holding the designation of the re maining acres under deferral That move allows the developers to go ahead with the zoning bylaw application A public meeting will be held before any decision is made by the town Far more is at stake Before what is sudden unex pected and least within calcula tion the spirit quails the great Athenian statesman Pericles For the past while the spirit of modern liberal democracy has been quailing far more than we would like to admit The sudden shock that befell the Athenian peo ple was the plague What has stun ned Western politicians publishers booksellers and writers is the order issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini to murder the esteemed Bnlish Salman Rushdie Recently renewed the call saying it is incumbent on every Muslim to use his life and wealth to send Mr Rushdie to hell The has hurt Islam more than Mr Rushdie ever could If Mr Rushdie had lived in Iran and tried to publish his book there he would have invited the death penalty for blasphemy But he lives in Britain a modern liberal democracy that depends on the rule of law for its preservation The Wests response has been disturbingly weakkneed Publishers in several European countries have stopped printing the book Last Friday Coles Bookstores said it was pulling The Satanic Verses from its shelves across the country- Wafdenbrooks the largest bookseller in the United States did the same Coles deci sion did not prevent a bomb threat at its downtown Toronto store over the weekend To its credit the Smith- Classics chain will continue to sell Mr Rushdies book when and if the US publisher Viking Penguin sends another shipment The of fices of Viking Penguin in New York and Britain are under heavy guard because of death threats against anyone involved in publishing the book UNEASY FEELING Booksellers are uneasy Kho meinis statement is an open licence to any wacko walking around to react says John Snider manager of Book City in downtown Toronto Its a peculiar feeling Its not a comforting thought someone coming in and setting fire to the place We wont buckle under to fear But were not prepared in Canada to deal with issues like this Sadly members of the Muslim does not seem to Your Business Diane Thornton News Service understand that they are offending our sacred institutions at least as much as Mr Rushdie inadvertent offended theirs Shaheen Hus- sain Azmi a Toronto Muslim leader expresses and extreme view It is the duty of every Muslim to adhere to Islamic law And the Islamic law is very clear on the matter of anyone who blasphemes the prophet If there are people who through their love of the Prophet get obsessed they choose to kill that is a matter between them and their God says Whitehouse secretary of the Canadian Society of Muslims SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER For the young men of Iran to go like sheep to the slaughter in the war with Iraq was one thing for them to go like sheep to slaughter irreverent writers in Britain the United States or Canada is quite another I have met Mr Rushdie Hes been in our store Mr Snider says Hes a thoughtful con siderate man very well respected throughout the Englishspeaking world Mr Rushdie won the Booker Prize Britains most prestigious literary award for an earlier novel Midnights Children In an article in the London Observer Mr Rushdie explains his novel I have tried to give a secular humanist vision of the birth of a great world religion he says The novel explores the transformations of migrants from the Indian subcontinent to Britain This is for me the saddest irony of all that after working for five years to give voice and fic tional flesh to the immigrant culture of which I am myself a member I should see my book burned largely unread by the peo ple its about people who might find some pleasure and much recognition in its pages I tried to write against stereotypes the zealot protests serve to confirm in the Western mind all the worst stereotypes of the Muslim world If the state terrorism has hurt Islam it has hurt us as well Mr Snider sums it up Its an incredibly powerful thing Once a group is united in a cause and have no fear of repercussions whether theyre Islamic Palesti nian or the Irish Republican Army they can easily instill fear in a populace More than freedom of speech is at stake International terrorism is testing theability of Britain to pro tect its citizens within its own borders Canada is being tested too SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 Guelph St Georgetown 8772217 STEVEN C FOSTER BARRISTER SOLICITOR 37 MAIN ST SOUTH GEORGETOWN ONT 3G2 fax 4168734962 Proposal on the table The company seeking to put a landfill site in the Acton quarry has finally put its proposal on the table Reclamation Systems Inc have filed the final documents with the Ministry of Environment in its bid to build a landfill site capable of handling 20 million tonnes of waste over a 20year period the public liaison officer for Eco Logic Laboratories the firm handling the proposal for RSI said that the documents have been formally handed over to the MOE and that Environment Minister Jim Bradley has notified Logic the proposal has been designated under the Environmental Assess ment Act The volumes of evidence RSI produced in support of the landfill can be viewed by the public at the Georgetown Public Library on Church Street the Acton Public Library on River Street the town of Hills administration building on Trafalgar Road Halton Region on Bronte Road in and Eco Logic on Dennis Street in There are now 55 government of ficials poring over the documents and those officials will each have input into a government review which will be made available to the public for a minimum of 30 days The MOE will then decide if the documents contain the relevant in formation for a consolidated board hearing The can reject the documents ask for more evidence or it can accept them as presented The ministry will then likely call a consolidated board hearing but it is within the ministrys power to accept the proposal for a landfill site without such a hearing said Ms the Acton site has twice before been rejected as a landfill site but RSI claims the site can be made safe through engineering The proposal has spawned op position from the citizens group POWER Protect our Water and Environmental 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