Posted on 12/04/2011 9:21:17 AM PST by Nachum
This picture was taken at a Virgin Megastore in Qatar. Note the recommendation on the right. Elder of Ziyon points out that this isn't just a Qatari phenomenon - he found this blog post from Bahrain that Virgin recommends Mein Kampf there too.
Mein Kampf has been a best seller in Arabic for years - Lisa Goldman described it as being the first book she saw for sale at Amman's Queen Alia airport in 2007 (she didn't mention the name of the bookshop, but she does mention Virgin in the same post when discussing the bookshop at Rafik al-Hariri airport in Beirut). And somehow I doubt that the prominent recommendation is so unusual either.
How about this from September 2010?
But one thing that Beirutis have always been good at is carrying on regardless. Restaurants open, bougainvillea blooms expansively, books are launched, film festivals abound, and hapless journalists go about their business. Despite a friend telling me that Mein Kampf is on the Downtown Virgin Megastore’s bestseller list (It could be innocent. Could it?), the city is full of bright and beautiful ideas. Estella and I (my 1991 Kawasaki Estrella – she lost the ‘r’ in homage to the anti-heroine of Great Expectations) have had plenty to do sounding out bookish thoughts all over the city.
So what's new here?
(Excerpt) Read more at israelmatzav.blogspot.com ...
Thank goodness we in the west have selective "approval" directives or we could have some serious issues with those goat humpers acting like the 3rd Reich is a worthy educational promotion.
As long as they tout the religion of "piece", they have our approval.
Is that garbage still in print? I can't believe there are enough people who want to read it to justify continued printing.
Is that garbage still in print? I can't believe there are enough people who want to read it to justify continued printing.
I still have a copy from College. I am neither an Arab or Jew hater.
But I read his parts on propaganda ever few years. Consider this: His marketing was so effective he was able to convince eighty million folks that engaging in a world war and the elimination of an entire race of people was a good idea. Think about that for a while. If you could convince just five percent of that many people to buy any product...you would set your family up for generations.
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