--- product_id: 21292796 title: "Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West" brand: "mark steyn" price: "181.64 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/21292796-lights-out-islam-free-speech-and-the-twilight-of-west store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West **Brand:** mark steyn **Price:** 181.64 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West by mark steyn - **How much does it cost?** 181.64 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/21292796-lights-out-islam-free-speech-and-the-twilight-of-west) ## Best For - mark steyn enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted mark steyn brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West ## Images ![Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616fd6Cp1DL.jpg) ![Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31YH-nqhQ-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Now it's lights out for the U.S. *by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2014* This book tells about Steyn's travails with the Canadian "human rights" racket. Most of the articles were about Islam, and Steyn's deep misgivings about the Islamic demographic takeover of the West. As if to confirm Mark's worst fears, the Muslims tried to shut him up by complaining of his "Islamaphobia" to the Canadian "human rights" tribunals. They ultimately failed, and not only did they fail, they caused section 13 of the relevant legislation, which gave the tribunals jurisdiction over alleged hate speech, to be repealed. I give Mark Steyn and publisher Ezra Levant a lot of the credit for that brilliant victory on behalf of free speech. But toward the end of the book, it became apparent that the plaintiff, Mohamed Elmasry, should really get most of the credit, because he didn't understand how the racket was designed to work. The game was to use the commissions against shallow pocket individuals who couldn't afford to defend themselves, and therefore had to knuckle under, but Elmasry, kept suing reputable publishers and newspaper, who had plenty of money to defend themselves, and a powerful incentive to end the whole kangaroo-court system.There are some great parts of this, one of which is Mark's take-down of a prissy journalism school professor who claimed that Mark did not properly fact-check a review of a book by Oriana Fallaci. The issue was Khomeini's ruling that a person should not eat a sheep after he has shagged the sheep. Steyn and Fallaci were right, and it was the J-school hack who couldn't do basic fact-checking. The punchline--about the j-school hack and his allies--was that "even though you've rogered them silly, they still keep bleating."Having read two Steyn collections in the last two months--this one a compilation of articles written from 2005 to 2008, and the other "the Face of the Tiger," a compilation of articles written in the year after 9/11--it strikes me that during both of those periods, it was the rest of the world that was generally poorly governed and having issues with free speech. The U.S., with its First Amendment, was seen as the bastion of the free press. How the worm has turned! Today, it's the U.S. that is governed more poorly than any other anglophone nation (and many other nations in the developed world). It's the U.S. that is ranked 46th in freedom of the press. It is in the U.S. that Mark Steyn is being sued for an short opinion piece about Michael Mann. It is in the U.S. where students at elite Ivy-league university express their contempt for freedom of speech. It is in the U.S where the FCC recently mooted putting government minders in news rooms across the country. It is in the U.S. where a documentary filmmaker critical of Obama is being federally prosecuted for helping his college friend. It is in the U.S. where the IRS is routinely used to harass those who exercise their freedom of speech to criticize the ruling party.I bought this book specifically to support Steyn in his current legal troubles, which perfectly encapsulate what's going wrong with Amaerica. Steyn is being sued by Michael Mann, who is most certainly a public figure, for a humorous opinion published in National Review. Given our First Amendment jurisprudence on libel of public figures, there's no way Mann can prevail, but even frivolous lawsuits cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Understanding these realities, about 27 jurisdictions have passed "anti-SLAPP" legislation that is intended to quickly shut down these suits. You file a special motion, discovery is stayed, the judge rules, the ruling is immediately appeal-able. But guess what? None of this works if the courts won't follow the law. The law that matters is the law that is written on the heart, and today's judiciary has been educated in a system that despises freedom of speech and despises law, sees law not as the savior from the tyranny of rule by man, but as the corrupt vehicle by which the ruling class controls everyone else. So when it comes to a conflict between the law and some left-wing value like the religious enthusiasm for anthropogenic global warming, the law doesn't stand a chance. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of essays on the coordinated assault on our freedom of speech *by T***0 on Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2014* Mark Steyn is one of the true treasures writing today. He is funny, intelligent and gets to the heart of the matter. This book consists of many essays written about his bout with the speech police in Canada as they tried to censor his writing on the creeping Islamization of the West. His insights are brilliant and on target. The West will be defeated, by a thousand cuts and accomadations made to an idealogy which is determined to see it's vision for the world come to pass. See ISIS in Iraq for what he is talking about. And our cultural self loathing propogated by our elites will lead the way to the loss of our way of life. After 9-11 many people wondered "why do they hate us?" Well according to the leading intellectuals at our universities, media, and arts western white men are the fount of imperialism, racism, environmental destruction, slavery, discrimination, economic exploitation - why wouldn't they hate us? - our elites sure do. As I've said on other reviews if we don't muscularly assert the superiority of our western civilization we are destined to lose it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Lights On *by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2010* I met Mark once and got his autograph - "Jim, let's win!" - inside the cover of America Alone. I now scan the Net eagerly nearly every day for his latest essays, often classics that snare collectivist politicians with double meanings and metaphors. He almost makes it possible to tolerate Obama because in an odd way, Obama and his minions inspire Mark to be brilliant!Lights Out is no exception as Steyn caricatures his life from October 2006 when MacLean's published clips from his America Alone and alerted Canadian Islam and the prissy leftists to his existence. A handful of Muslim students, the Canadian Islamic Congress, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission decided to examine Mr. Steyn's written thoughts. They needed several years and several lawyers. They also needed a case.Canadian justice, unfortunately, is like that in much of Europe: free speech is an old hound's bark, to be muzzled unless it is toothless. In contrast, America and most Americans still resist nasty collectivist webs and it's legitimate for therapists to make sensitive folks tougher rather than silencing the rude folks around them.Publishers, however, have interests in many countries and restrict publications in America if there is some chance for a law suit in London or Amsterdam. (Yes, Islamists have a reputation for "jurist shopping"!) Similarly, many academics and clerics in the United States now do the secularist thing and spout bland opinions but no children while Islam has conviction, enforced morality, and lots of hostile males. Islam, thus, wins often in our prisons and poor neighborhoods not on the basis of numbers but because of the absence of competing faiths. We are indeed "the hollow men."Lights Out makes its long argument again and again and again and I am amazed at the number of subtle ways that people repeat the same stupid tactics. I suspect that Mark "chained" Lights Out as he lived it. Of course, he found a tool for revenge, self-therapy, and making a bit of money as he confused his critics. (I get the same thrill from writing conservative columns in Starbucks!)Bottom line effect of Steyn's book: I'm glad for the United States Constitution and for those who wrote it. And I'm glad the Canadian legal apparatus finally had the good sense to be embarrassed!Cheers to Geert!James Brody, Ph.D.[...] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/21292796-lights-out-islam-free-speech-and-the-twilight-of-west](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/21292796-lights-out-islam-free-speech-and-the-twilight-of-west) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-09-03*