Posted on 03/10/2019 10:06:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
With the news last week that Amazon has banned Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, co-authored by British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin, Amazon has crossed a very dangerous and precarious line.
Two immediate questions come to mind. First, why ban a book critiquing Islam when a host of other books critiquing – no, harshly attacking – other religious faiths are available on Amazon? Second, why ban this book and not other books that critique Islam? Why draw the line here?
When McLoughlin, who helped expose the “grooming” crimes committed by some British Muslims, received word that the book had been removed from Amazon, he wrote, “This is the twenty-first century equivalent of the Nazis taking out the books from university libraries and burning them.
“Can you think of another scholarly book on Islam that has been banned by Amazon? Mein Kampf is for sale on Amazon. As are books like the terrorist manual called The Anarchist Cookbook.”
Yet Mohammed’s Koran gets banned?
According to Robert Spencer, who has authored scholarly works critiquing the Koran, Robinson and McLoughlin’s book “endeavors to illustrate how violent jihadists justify their actions by referring to Islamic texts and teachings -- and that’s all. Robinson and McLoughlin call for no violence. Their book is accurate.”
Indeed, one could readily ask, if their book was banned by Amazon, why not ban Spencer’s related books, such as: The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion; or, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran; or The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades); or The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS? (Note that this last title, released in 2018, is currently #1 on Amazon under the category, “Muhammad and Islam.”)
Do you see where this is going?
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The Conservative response: Let Amazon sell it, I just won’t buy it.
The Liberal response: Take the choice away so no one can buy it.
I’ll miss the ease, but I’m done with them. F Bozo.
In today’s world banning anything is only going to increase interest in it 1000 fold
Just the banning by one of the more on google Facebook idiots is the platform itself for much talk about whatever the subject is
And again. The premier unassailable treatise on the truth about Islam is Craig Winn’s site. Www.Prophetofdoom.net
Islam is NOT reformable.
Yep. Find the book you want, find out who publishes it, and buy it directly from their website. Or use your Library more often - your Tax Dollars are paying for it, anyway. ;)
Buy American!
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I wonder if Amazon got threatened? Ironically pointing up the very thesis of that book.
People can be peeled off the milder variants of Islam to world views that rhyme with Judaism and Christianity. But as long as that book is there, people can fall into Islamic fundamentalism.
Liberals don’t have to get the government to censor us. They just politicize the corporations. Then the corporations can oppress the people without worrying about constitutional rights.
I went online to find the book, lots of vendors out there are selling it.
So Amazon losses business, BFD.
I bought a collectors copy of mein kampf and it had Jeff Bezos signature on it.
And here I thought he signed his name: L-e-x L-u-t-h-o-r.
Amazon has been busily banning many books in the past year.
Targets are some variation of “politically incorrect”. They are arbitrary in their banning, often banning one book by an author while keeping a similar book available.
This approach is designed to have a chilling effect—if the writer cannot know what will be banned they will self-censor to keep all of their writing safely within the Overton (now Amazon) Window.
I loved my old tagline, but I guess it is time for the new one.
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