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2005-04-02 Arabia

'No book should be banned in this age of information'

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-02 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 All the 354 known books should be legal.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-02 8:39:47 AM|| 2005-04-02 8:39:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-04-02 9:13:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-04-02 11:09:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What happened---somebody objected to the publication of Main Kampf in Arabic?

Posted by gromgoru 2005-04-02 11:37:16 AM|| 2005-04-02 11:37:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-04-02 10:35:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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