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Aharami

Aharami

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Aug 31, 2001
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Why would anyone want to ban The Great Gatsby or Lord of The Flies? Those are awesome books!
 
Baked

Baked

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Originally posted by: Aharami
Why would anyone want to ban The Great Gatsby or Lord of The Flies? Those are awesome books!
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Because parents and politicians are pussifying America's youth.
 
ElFenix

ElFenix

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if school boards had any clue what the bard was writing, he'd be banned too
 
Born2bwire

Born2bwire

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Man, almost all of those books should be required reading (some where at my school).
 
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sinucus

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Of course 1984 would be a challenged book. Why would anyone want to know that everything that is happening now was predicted in 1948?
 
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bignateyk

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christ..if they are gonna ban a book, ban the fvcking scarlet letter. noone should be forced to read that bland garbage.
 
CKent

CKent

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Ironically, people who would like to see books banned or other freedoms stripped of us are often the same ones espousing "protecting our freedom" by going to war, etc. I guess it's only freedom if they approve :(
 
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everman

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Nov 5, 2002
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Wow this one is most impressive:
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Quatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India because of its criticism of Islam. Burned in West Yorkshire, England (1989) and temporarily withdrawn from two bookstores on the advice of police who took threats to staff and property seriously. In Pakistan five people died in riots against the book. Another man died a day later in Kashmir. Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa or religions edict, stating, "I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses, which is against Islam, the prophet, and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, have been sentenced to death."

Challenged at the Wichita, Ks. Public Library (1989) because the book is "blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed." In Venezuela, owning or reading it was declared a crime under penalty of 15 months' imprisonment. In Japan, the sale of the English-language edition was banned under the threat of fines. The governments of Bulgaria and Poland also restricted its distribution. In 1991, in separare inceidents, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was seriously wounded. In 1993 William Nygaard, its Norwegian publisher, was shot and seriously wounded. Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.
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Check out the whole list here.
The Catcher in the Rye has also been challenged and banned a lot.
 
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bignateyk

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Apr 22, 2002
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Originally posted by: everman
Wow this one is most impressive:
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Quatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India because of its criticism of Islam. Burned in West Yorkshire, England (1989) and temporarily withdrawn from two bookstores on the advice of police who took threats to staff and property seriously. In Pakistan five people died in riots against the book. Another man died a day later in Kashmir. Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa or religions edict, stating, "I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses, which is against Islam, the prophet, and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, have been sentenced to death."

Challenged at the Wichita, Ks. Public Library (1989) because the book is "blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed." In Venezuela, owning or reading it was declared a crime under penalty of 15 months' imprisonment. In Japan, the sale of the English-language edition was banned under the threat of fines. The governments of Bulgaria and Poland also restricted its distribution. In 1991, in separare inceidents, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was seriously wounded. In 1993 William Nygaard, its Norwegian publisher, was shot and seriously wounded. Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.
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Check out the whole list here.
The Catcher in the Rye has also been challenged and banned a lot.
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lol. It never ceases to amuse me at how offended muslims get when you criticize or make fun of islam, for any reason at all.
 
CKent

CKent

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Banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Quatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India because of its criticism of Islam. Burned in West Yorkshire, England (1989) and temporarily withdrawn from two bookstores on the advice of police who took threats to staff and property seriously. In Pakistan five people died in riots against the book. Another man died a day later in Kashmir. Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa or religions edict, stating, "I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses, which is against Islam, the prophet, and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, have been sentenced to death."

Challenged at the Wichita, Ks. Public Library (1989) because the book is "blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed." In Venezuela, owning or reading it was declared a crime under penalty of 15 months' imprisonment. In Japan, the sale of the English-language edition was banned under the threat of fines. The governments of Bulgaria and Poland also restricted its distribution. In 1991, in separare inceidents, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was seriously wounded. In 1993 William Nygaard, its Norwegian publisher, was shot and seriously wounded. Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.
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Why am I not surprised... Violence seems the muslim answer to anything and everything. Apologists claim that it's just the radicals, but here we see a pillar of islam promoting it, and he's not alone.
 
Imported

Imported

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Sep 2, 2000
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Originally posted by: bignateyk
christ..if they are gonna ban a book, ban the fvcking scarlet letter. noone should be forced to read that bland garbage.
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Agreed.
 
Toonces

Toonces

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Rushdie had a fatwah issued against him for writing that book; he's lived in exile ever since.

Try reading his children's book "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" it's quite enjoyable if you understand some of Rushdie's life.
 
Hyperlite

Hyperlite

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May 25, 2004
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Originally posted by: bignateyk
christ..if they are gonna ban a book, ban the fvcking scarlet letter. noone should be forced to read that bland garbage.
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qft
 
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Bryophyte

Lifer
Apr 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: bignateyk
christ..if they are gonna ban a book, ban the fvcking scarlet letter. noone should be forced to read that bland garbage.
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Heh. I had a boyfriend when I was a freshman in college that got mad at me for owning that book because he thought it meant I approved of cheating. :roll:

Edit: Sadly, I hadn't even read the book at the time, I had just gotten a box of books from a used bookstore to have something new to read.

Edit 2: Oh, here's another book from that box that he got mad about:

#48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

Lifer
Nov 29, 1999
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Originally posted by: Aharami
Why would anyone want to ban The Great Gatsby or Lord of The Flies? Those are awesome books!
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I dunno, why did some people want JLGatsby banned? :D
 
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