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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Fighting Fire with Free Speech

"Fighting Fire with Free Speech: ALA Will Protest Book Burning with 9/11 Qur'an Reading." American Libraries / Leonard Kniffel.
America: ALA American Libraries Magazine Online, September 8th 2010.
"Book burning is the most insidious form of book banning, and just as the American Library Association is preparing to celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Books Week, along comes one Rev. Terry Jones of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. The good reverend’s idea of world outreach is to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 with a public burning of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book."