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Arabia
'No book should be banned in this age of information'
2005-04-02
Abu Dhabi: Books and information should not be banned or withheld from the public, the Minister of Education said yesterday. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Education, said that people have the right to choose what to read and not to read. He was inaugurating the 15th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. "We live in an age in which people should be supplied with all kinds of information through different media. All people have the right to choose and select information and are wise enough to make that choice. No book should be banned and no information should be withheld from the public in this day and age."
Posted by:Fred

#5  Actually there are a lot of books by Islamic reformers and Islamic skeptics and Islamic apostates that should be published and read in arabic.
Posted by: mhw   2005-04-02 10:35:10 PM  

#4  What happened---somebody objected to the publication of Main Kampf in Arabic?
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-04-02 11:37:16 AM  

#3  LOL no SteveS, it's gotta be......

Do the bombay door thing man.
sokay bombay door she open.

Boms away!

GOD IN HEAVEN!
10 thousand copies of the Naked Lunch!
dropped on civillians!

(from some FST thingy....)
Posted by: Shipman   2005-04-02 11:09:19 AM  

#2  If a book agrees with the Koran, it is redundant and therefore unnecessary. If a book contradicts the Koran, it is blasphemy and should be destroyed. There, wasn't that easy!

Suddenly, I have a vision of waves of B-52s carpet bombing the Middle East with copies of The Cat in the Hat and My Weekly Reader.
Posted by: SteveS   2005-04-02 9:13:59 AM  

#1  All the 354 known books should be legal.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-04-02 8:39:47 AM  

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