90 Miles From Tyranny : Amazon Crosses a Very Dangerous Censorship Line

infinite scrolling

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Amazon Crosses a Very Dangerous Censorship Line



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 — harshly attacking, to be honest — 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?

Why This Book?


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...

Read More HERE

2 comments:

Doom said...

It's worse than the Nazi act. All the Nazis did was destroy a few purchased books. Amazon is removing access to books for many readers, whose only access to books is through them. That is far more evil.

Carol said...

And yet they still have books on satanism for sale - how to be one, how to sign a pact, how to be one as a teenager and how to sacrifice animals.....