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 Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 9, 2008

What's odd about this piece is that it highlights a unfortunate act of censorship and terrorism, but then attacks an American academic, suggesting she should have censored her criticism. It's over-reliant on an WSJ editorial piece, and has almost no original reporting.

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