With the news last week that Amazon has banned Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, co-authored by British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin, Amazon has crossed a very dangerous and precarious line.
Two immediate questions come to mind. First, why ban a book critiquing Islam when a host of other books critiquing – other religious faiths are available on Amazon? Second, why ban this book and not other books that critique Islam? Why draw the line here?
Which books and authors will be next? Perhaps our books opposing LGBT activism or exposing the evils of abortion will be next?
When co-author McLoughlin, who helped expose the “grooming” crimes committed by some British Muslims, received word that the book had been removed from Amazon, he wrote, “This is the twenty-first century equivalent of the Nazis taking out the books from university libraries and burning them.