Video Top 10 Modern Day Book Burning Incidents

Video ✅ You’ll be surprised by how many modern book burnings have taken place over the years. For this list, we’ll be looking at incidents from 1980 on of people that decided to censure books by setting them on fire or destroying them for one reason or another. Our countdown includes Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”, E. L. James’s “Fifty Shades of Grey”, J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” Series, and more! Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them? Let us know below! ✅ Top 10 Modern Day Book Burning Incidents

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you hear me
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cedar chips up in this house welcome to
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watch mojo and today we’re counting down
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our picks for the top 10 modern-day book
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burning incidents rushdie embarked on a
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life of high security and was often in
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hiding he survived the fatwa others did
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not for this list we’re looking at
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incidents from 1980 on of people that
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decided to censure books by setting them
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on fire or destroying them for one
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reason or another have you read any of
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these books what did you think of them
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let us know below
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number 10 jewish and transgressive
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literature over the last few years
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hungary has become more extreme with its
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politics the most visible symbol of
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nationalist hungary this new electrified
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fence on the country southern border
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with serbia built to protect what orban
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calls christian europe from invaders and
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that was highlighted during this
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incident in november 2013 the far right
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group the mayar nemzetti arts funnel or
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hungarian national frontline announced
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their plan to orchestrate quote against
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the forces of darkness and quote
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unethical works i can boldly say that
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here and now the radical right is back
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they plan to do this by burning the
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works of jewish and transgressive
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authors in multiple locations such
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authors included imre kertes a jewish
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survivor of auschwitz and the winner of
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the 2002 nobel prize in literature and
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nicos radnoti a jewish poet who was
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killed in a concentration camp dressed
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in camouflage patterned uniforms the
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group proudly uploaded images of this
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grim act
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number 9. dan flynn’s cop killer in 1981
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during a traffic stop police officer
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daniel faulkner was fatally shot mumia
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abu jamal who was non-fatally shot at
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the scene was arrested for faulkner
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slaying however the case isn’t cut and
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dried as many believe abu jamal is
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innocent death by any means is wrong and
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the killer innocent man is definitely
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wrong there’s only one judge and that’s
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the most high and there’s only one jew
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who has to join the righteous people but
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some also think he’s guilty well some
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call mumia abu jamal and activists yet
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he is a convicted cop killer this week
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philadelphia d.a larry krasner revealed
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that he will challenge an order that
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allowed abdu jamal to appeal his case in
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1999 dan flynn published the booklet
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titled cop killer how mumia abu jamal
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conned millions into believing he was
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framed as he spoke about their work at
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the university of california berkeley in
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2000 a group of protesters interrupted
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they called flynn names like fascist and
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one student even mooned the author
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according to flynn the students took
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copies of the booklet for sale went
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outside and set them ablaze while
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holding signs saying fight racist
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censorship
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number eight abu nawaz’s poetry
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abu nawaz was an ancient arabic poet
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born in the 8th century he even appeared
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in folklore tales like 1001 nights by
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2001 egypt’s ministry of culture led by
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farooq hosni had a problem with nuessa’s
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work mostly because it contained
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homosexual comments and references and
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hosni who had been in the role since
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1987 was not keen on it so much so that
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he ordered 6 000 volumes of noise’s
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poetry to be burned before this hosni
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had already reportedly had three quote
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indecent novels removed from publication
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and had the editor on the books fired
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among other decrees hosni’s
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controversial reign would eventually end
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in the aftermath of the 2011 egyptian
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revolution he served as culture minister
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under hosni mubarak until the
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president’s ouster in 2000 2011.
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just as the country has since undergone
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a transformation so has hosni’s work
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number seven dan brown’s the da vinci
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code symbols are a language
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that can help us understand our past as
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i say goes a picture
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says a thousand words
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but
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which words sometimes when a work of
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fiction is put together that uses
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religious elements but changes the story
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significantly people can be upset and
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see the act as blasphemous who is she
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my dear that’s mary magdalene
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the prostitute
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she was no such thing
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smeared by the church in 591 and a
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domino pud and once the film the da
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vinci code came out in cinemas some
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christians were not happy in the town of
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chicano in italy some council members
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decided to seek revenge they took a copy
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of dan brown’s 2003 novel to the town
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center and set it ablaze many people
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were there both supporters of the
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performance and opponents those
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protesting the event yelled many insults
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at the book burners and threw tomatoes
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at them
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some small fights even took place
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number six annual bible burnings
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pastor mark grizard of the amazing grace
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baptist church in north carolina
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believes there’s only one version of the
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bible the king james edition four as
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grizzard states quote english-speaking
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people and that all other variations are
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quote satanic and quote perversions
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we’re burning
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versions of god’s word such as the niv
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the nasv the ecv the living bible since
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2009 grizzard and his crew have met up
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once a year at halloween to quote
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celebrate and burn the other versions of
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the bible and other literature in an
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event called the burning perversions of
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god’s word burning books that are
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satanic some famous evangelicals like
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rick warren and billy graham also had
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their work destroyed and weirdly even
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literature by mother teresa however the
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first event got off to a rocky start
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when protesters and bad weather meant
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they couldn’t make a fire so they tore
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the books up instead begin to rip and
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tear
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so you can see we’re not
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burning anything
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number five anthony schaefer’s operation
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darkheart anthony schaefer is a former
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lieutenant colonel in the army reserve
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and worked for the defense intelligence
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agency but after an investigation by the
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dia schaefer had his security clearance
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revoked in 2006 after he made serious
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allegations about 9 11. part of the book
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does deal with intelligence information
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that muhammad atta was identified as a
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threat to the u.s before the 9 11
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attacks occurred naata of course was the
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ringleader of the attacks and piloted
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one plane so schaefer brought in a ghost
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rider to develop his memoir called
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operation dark heart which would explore
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his time working in afghanistan for the
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dia however once the department of
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defense saw a copy of the manuscript
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they had a big problem reviewed by the
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army and cleared for publication a
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second time
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because of defense intelligence agency
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indicating after they looked at it that
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they felt there was quote unquote top
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secret information in the book it was
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filled with state secrets that could
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damage national security so they
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purchased every copy of the 9500 first
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prints and destroyed them exactly why
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did they burn the book steve
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well bill they say operation dark heart
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poses a threat to national security they
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didn’t explain exactly why the book was
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then heavily edited for the second
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edition
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number four e.l james’s fifty shades of
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grey when the book fifty shades of grey
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came out in print you couldn’t walk
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through a bookstore without seeing a
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stand filled with copies fifty shades of
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yay
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it is a novel but some couples are
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taking it more like a how-to manual and
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it’s selling at the unheard-of rate of
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one book a second everyone seemed to be
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talking about it from your neighbor
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postal worker the media and celebrities
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and that didn’t sit right with some due
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to the explicit content on the pages
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you want anything else
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yes
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rope cleveland-based radio djs chad
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zumach and alan cox announced they were
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going to host a burning of the book at a
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panini’s restaurant after callers for
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their show complained about it
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surprisingly a decent crowd arrived
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ready to see some fire on the nearby
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beach volleyball court the djs were
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surprised there weren’t many protesters
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but they believe that’s because they
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assumed it was a joke yeah i it’s not
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something i bargained for at all number
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three salman rushdie’s the satanic
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verses
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it’s not every day that releasing a book
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causes so much controversy that it gets
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its own wikipedia page strength of
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feeling about rushdie’s book resulted in
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death threats to the author almost as
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soon as satanic verses came out while
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critics hailed salman rushdie’s the
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satanic verses as an ambitious novel
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about the immigrant experience it
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outraged many in the muslim community
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who saw it as blasphemous the title
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references a legend about the prophet
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muhammad permitting a prayer to three
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goddesses before attributing his words
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to the devil iran’s
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ayatollah issued a fatwa against rushdie
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and anyone who worked on the book
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ordering their deaths his novel the
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satanic verses inspired iran’s spiritual
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leader ruhollah fahmani to issue a fatwa
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a death warrant he declared the book
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blasphemous
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in 1988 in bolton england seven thousand
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protesters took part in burning a copy
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of the book a few months later in 1989
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protesters in the city bradford did the
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same
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several attacks have also followed
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some fatal with rushdie himself still a
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target the news that’s come out of new
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york state just within the last hour
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about the novelist the author salman
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rushdie who has been stabbed at an event
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in new york state number two library
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burning with the bosnian war kicking off
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there was a siege in sarajevo during
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this members of the bosnian serb army
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decided to shell the national and
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university library of bosnia and
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herzegovina
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which had stood there since 1945.
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library workers and neighbors risked
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their lives to rescue the books from the
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inferno of the bosnian war the library
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reportedly held over 1.5 million volumes
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with the building burning those
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responsible are said to have shot anyone
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that tried to rescue the literature the
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helpers managed to save a tenth of the
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books while dodging sniper fire from the
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hills overlooking sarajevo
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municipal firefighters struggled to save
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the building in 2014 the library was
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reopened a similar tale happened in sri
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lanka in 1981 after three sinali’s
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police officers were shot with two
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perishing a group of senelah’s people
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took out their rage in the city of
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jaffna the group set the public library
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on fire destroying 97 000 books it was
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reopened to the public in 2003. before
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number one jk rowling’s harry potter
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series when the film harry potter and
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the philosopher’s stone came out this
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sparked a rampage among some who felt
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the magic content was evil you’re a
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wizard harry
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i’m a what a wizard in new mexico the
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congregation of the christ community
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church burned potter books and works by
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stephen king eminem and others also in
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2001 there was a similar incident in
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pittsburgh in 2002 a pastor in maine
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wanted to get in on the fiery action but
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after failing to get a permit he
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resorted to tearing up pages in a hotel
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over the years there’s been numerous
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burnings and some calls to ban the
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franchise altogether saint edward
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catholic school in nashville is facing
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backlash after the school’s pastor
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pulled the harry potter series from the
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library another beloved book series
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twilight also joined in with some potter
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burning in 2002 in tennessee by
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controversial pastor greg locke yo
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witchcraft has to flee in the name of
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jesus
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we’ll be down at the fire
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