
“I've had enough of the Quran in The Netherlands: ban that fascist book.”
Geert Wilders, De Volkskrant (8 August 2007)
2010s, Marked for Death (2012)
1990s, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)
“I've had enough of the Quran in The Netherlands: ban that fascist book.”
Geert Wilders, De Volkskrant (8 August 2007)
2010s, Marked for Death (2012)
The Calcutta Quran Petition (1986)
“… the Catholic Church didn't get their information from the Bible (it was a banned Book).”
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”
Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
“I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.”
Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
“Masnavi-I Ma'navi, Book III, verses 1259–1270”
Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar; another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal. One, as it were, called it "Dal" and another "Alif."
If you give a candle to everyone, their differences will be gone,
Compare the sensual eye to the
hand of one that felt the elephant.
The eye of outward sense is as the palm of a hand,
The whole of the object is not grasped in the palm.
The sea itself is one thing, the foam another;
Neglect the foam, and regard the sea with your eyes.
The Masnavi, Book III, Story V, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967