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Southeast Asia
Malaysia: 37 books that 'undermine Islam' banned
2007-06-07
Malaysia has banned 37 books and other publications on Islam, saying they contain "twisted facts" that could undermine Muslims' faith. Che Din Yusoh, a senior official of the Publications and Quranic Texts Control Division, said in a statement Wednesday that 21 of the items were English-language publications from the US, UK and Jordan, and 16 others were in the Bahasa Malaysia language, published in Malaysia and Indonesia. "These publications can cause confusion and apprehension among Muslims and eventually jeopardize public order," Che Din said in a statement issued through the national news agency, Bernama.

It said the ban was imposed because we can't handle the truth "their contents and text on Islam twisted facts and true Islamic teachings, or contained elements that misled the faithful and humiliated the prophets."
Posted by:Fred

#7  thank you Duh!

It seems that it is just the 1984 list and doesn't contain any of the newer books (notably Robert Spenser's books or Hirsi Ali's book).
Posted by: mhw   2007-06-07 16:31  

#6  The list
Long older list.
Posted by: Duh!   2007-06-07 15:10  

#5  Yeah, mhw, I'd like to know too.
I wonder if "The Big Book of Undermining Islam" or "Undermining Islam for Dummies" were in there...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-06-07 15:01  

#4  they don't say which books

darn
Posted by: mhw   2007-06-07 11:17  

#3   "These publications can cause confusion and apprehension among Muslims and eventually jeopardize public order," Che Din said

and you know how they get... so we might as well ban them before they blow up the place.

Doomed

Posted by: Flolumble Elmuling1667   2007-06-07 05:31  

#2  Betweem what they are trying to do and how they are forcing us to twist our societies into knots to defend against them, Muslims are bringing us closer to a "1984" or a "Fahrenheit 451" kind of world every day.
Posted by: Vortigern Snolutch7163   2007-06-07 04:27  

#1  One need only think for a moment of other regimes which burnt books in order to gain a solid appraisal of what this means. Let's look at the short list: Nazis, Communist China and now Islam. Anyone sensing a pattern here? Never have I seen so large of a "faith" with such an eggshell-thin collective ego or so little faith in its own durability. Islam's resilience is so insubstantial that merely rubbing up against reality leaves it raw and bleeding. The collision of civilizations that has yet to come can only prove catastrophic for such an utterly vulnerable collection of petty religious bullies.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-07 03:02  

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