Tommy Book Ban? Remember When We Were Shocked By The Rushdie Affair?
Remember when that ignorant old savage in Tehran pronounced a ‘death sentence’ on Salman Rushdie, what, thirty five years ago, for no other reason than that the man had written a book the old bigot didn’t like?
We were all horrified.
We found it incredible that writing a book, publishing a book, about anything, could by any standards by deemed an outlaw activity.
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After all, we can buy Marx’s Das Kapital in most big bookshops, and his works bore, still bear, responsibility for more evil in the world than any other ‘intellectual’ enterprise.
Yet now we have Amazon, which carries both Rushdie’s and Marx’s books, and Mein Kampf, BTW, refusing to sell copies of Tommy Robinson’s book.
Amazon bans book co-written by Tommy Robinson from their website
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/amazon-ban-tommy-robinson-website-koran-a8812111.html
AND the arrogant little pillocks who serve as Amazon censors won’t even tell us WHY!
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I’ve used Amazon in the past.
But I detest book-burners, book-ban bigots, whether here in Indonesia…
…or anywhere!
Amazon bans book co-written by Tommy Robinson from their website
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Vicki, 
Pat Chalmer, and 
Fiona are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Fiona 17:31 on March 10, 2019 Permalink |
It won’t be long till Amazon start to ‘feel the heat,’ as our American friends like to say. Their intolerance is not tolerable.
It’s infuriating how some members of one particular religion arrogantly think they are above criticism.
Having read about what Islamic fanatics do in Indonesia, I can’t say I am at all surprised if they want to suppress British people’s liberties, but for Amazon to go along with them like this is something that won’t quickly be forgiven.
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Pat Chalmer 21:07 on March 10, 2019 Permalink |
Fiona, it is time we stood up to them. We are fed up of their arrogant attitudes.
‘We must never offend them.’
‘We mustnt complain if they take time off while we have to work on through if the shops busy.’
‘We hsve to change school menus that our kids like just because they dont eat bacon.’
Now we can only buy books that dont upset their intolerant little minds?
Then we get called phobes because we dont like being pushed around by people who dont want to fit in.
They are the pushiest people in the world. We have to take a stand.
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Vicki 22:07 on March 10, 2019 Permalink |
I hope a petition and lots of other protests will be organised and I will do what I can to help.
This is very wrong.
What kind of people run Amazon?
Not British, not in any real sense, if they take the side of the ‘always-offended.’
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