Ezra's google experiment

Professor John Miller is crying foul about Ezra Levant's use of his laptop to prove that he could easily find the reference to Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah concerning sodomized animals on Google.

Miller writes (emphasis mine):

My sexual prowess has been questioned, I’ve been accused of being an ageing fossil who doesn’t know how to Google shit, a guilty white man ashamed of my race, an idiot and a pro-censorship traitor to journalism. My qualifications to teach anyone anything anywhere have been mocked in public.

And I realize this stuff will be permanently parked on the Internet to be read, perhaps, by my grandchildren some day.

I blame it all on Ezra Levant.

Canada ’s sawed-off, ultra-right-wing Sultan of Shout likes to wage nuclear war with anyone who dares to hold a reasonable thought in his presence, which means he never has any shortage of material to put up on his half-cocked personal blogging site.

Oh. If Miller is arguing for a more civil Internet, he just lost his argument by engaging in the same kind of nasty remarks that he objects to about himself. I hope he is not the kind of individual who thinks anything against his political opponents is fair game, any similar style criticism against himself or those on his side is something for the state to crack down on.

I have no opinion on Miller's age, or prowess, or ability as a journalism professor but I do have an opinion on the fact he would like to use state power to censor the Internet. Since he seems to think Ezra is ultra-right-wing, does that mean he also wants Ezra censored?

Then he says:

I checked the references Levant gave me afterwards, and realized it was a staged ambush. None of his 100 links contained the particular quote I was talking about. The link he has on his website to the supposed source, Khomeini’s book Tahrir-ol-vasyleh, contains no mention of that quote. The 1995 collection of Khomeini’s quotes published by Harper’s magazine does not contain it either. When I Googled other paths to finding it, all I came up with was various right-wing blogsites, which are as loose with the facts as their patron saint, Levant .

Well, I decided to get on Google myself. And guess what, I found an English translation of the whole bleepin' book. With five minutes I found this:

The meat of horses, mules, or donkeys is not recommended. It is strictly forbidden if the animal was sodomized while alive by a man. In that case, the animal must be taken outside the city and sold.

If one commits an act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned, and the price of it paid to its owner by him who sodomized it.

Either John Miller does not know how to Google shit, or he excludes factual information from what he determines to be right wing sites like the one above that bothered to provide a translation. Does he know about Memri? Does he think the folks there are just making stuff up, too?