The Book-Banning Double Standard

While America’s mainstream media has spent the last few weeks obsessing about the imagined book-banning proclivities of Sarah Palin, news of a very real threat to Western values of tolerance and freedom of expression has gone largely unremarked upon by those same commentators.

In London three men have been charged over a firebomb attack on the home of Dutch publisher Martin Rynja, who owns the UK rights to The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel ... Full Story »

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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 9, 2008

This news analysis has considerable journalistic merit. The author provides ample background for this important topic, and presents it in a balanced way. Sufficient details are presented to enable understanding of the situation.

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