{"id":398333,"date":"2019-03-06T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:28:28","slug":"prison-planet-com-amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Amazon Bans Tommy Robinson\u2019s Book, \u2018Mohammed\u2019s Koran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/homeland-security\/amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran\/\"><strong>PJ Media<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 6, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\"><strong>On January 7 of this year, I published <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/homeland-security\/amazon-removes-offensive-quran-doormats-at-cairs-demand\/\">an article at PJ Media<\/a> about Amazon removing doormats featuring Qur\u2019an verses from sale because the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found them offensive. In that article, I asked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How long will it be before Hamas-linked CAIR starts demanding that books that criticize jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others also be dropped by Amazon?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">The answer turned out to be 51 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">It\u2019s the British government and the BBC, rather than CAIR, that are likely behind this, but Amazon has <a href=\"http:\/\/brianoflondon.me\/2019\/02\/breaking-tommy-robinson-news-book-burning-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just dropped<\/a> the book <i>Mohammed\u2019s Koran<\/i> by the renowned British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin \u2014 and apparently only because its censors dislike Robinson. In the last two weeks, Robinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2019\/02\/bruce-bawer-sweeney-agonistes-tommy-robinson-turns-the-tables-on-the-bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spectacularly embarrassed<\/a> the BBC by exposing the bias and dishonesty of its reporter John Sweeney. The retaliation has been swift and severe: Robinson has been banned from YouTube and Facebook, and now his book has been withdrawn from sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Coauthor Peter McLoughlin <a href=\"http:\/\/brianoflondon.me\/2019\/02\/breaking-tommy-robinson-news-book-burning-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]his is the twenty-first century equivalent of the Nazis taking out the books from university libraries and burning them. Can you think of another scholarly book on Islam that has been banned by Amazon? <i>Mein Kampf<\/i> is for sale on Amazon. As are books like the terrorist manual called <i>The Anarchist Cookbook<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">McLoughlin is correct that Amazon\u2019s behavior has been wildly inconsistent. He adds that Amazon officials are steadfastly mum on why the book was banned:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[They] refuse to reinstate the book and refuse to explain why it has been banned. So they have banned the No.1 best-selling exegesis of the Koran. I can\u2019t get my head round it. Every few weeks for the past 18 months they had emailed me asking to put it into special sales programmes, as it was selling so well. For 18 months they sought to profit even more from the sales.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u201cAs dark as my vision&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PJ MediaMarch 6, 2019 On January 7 of this year, I published an article at PJ Media about Amazon removing doormats featuring Qur\u2019an verses from sale because the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found them offensive. In that article, I asked: How long will it be before Hamas-linked CAIR starts demanding that books that criticize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}