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"Students Burn Books to Protest Book Ban"

Students at Melbourne University tried to make a point about book banning.  From the article:

The books by Abdullah Azzam - Join the Caravan and Defence of Muslim Lands - were banned by the Classification Review Board after they were found to justify Jihad and promote and incite terrorism.

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Students - some dressed as "thought police" and wearing Philip Ruddock masks - symbolically burned pages from a handful of books to protest against the government infringing on their "intellectual freedoms" and free speech.

Well, I guess that's one way to do it.

Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 03:23PM by Registered CommenterMark Leahy, Web Editor in | CommentsPost a Comment

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