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Anti-Islam book launch cancelled

Published on 16 February 2010 - 3:30pm
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A conference centre in The Hague has cancelled the launch of a book criticising Islam. The book launch was scheduled for Thursday at The World Forum, but was cancelled because the director of the venue does not believe he can guarantee the safety of his guests.

The book in question is Islamofobie? (Islamophobia?), written by Islam critic and PVV supporter Frans Groenendijk. The PVV, or Freedom Party is an anti-Islamic opposition party led by Geert Wilders.

Green Left party member Tofik Dibi, who was to receive the first book at the launch, says he regrets that the conference centre acted out of fear. The venue says it has not received any threats.
 

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Discussion

inter4522 2 May 2011 - 7:45pm

Its all about freedom of speech in the future. I am not sure how you can stop this book at all. This is so wrong.Orlando Managed services

Maurice Rosen 27 April 2010 - 6:56pm / USA

Qurango.com is a terrorist type organization. Screw them

Anonymous 3 October 2010 - 4:08pm / USA

anything Muslim or Islam is TERRORISM. Right? What a pathetic waste of wisdom!

Amir Ali Tayyab 20 March 2010 - 10:05pm / USA

Here's my Review of the Book "How Fatima Started Islam: Mohammad's Daughter Tells It All" written by a fake American guy who calls himself Noor Barack (probably trying to mock Barack H. Obama) and published by Camel Flea Press (having no offices or a website, as if depicting so many camels ready to enjoy a feast in a flea market)

Obviously the author, the book and everything else alike is doomed to fail just as their predecessors in a desperate effort to ignite nothing but violence and hatred. And rest assured as Salman Rushdie did not represent the whole British people, similarly this sick writer and publisher does not represent Americans. These childish and coward attacks on people and their beliefs will never stop as there are many unemployed, impoverished and aimless people in this world having nothing else better to do in life. Pathetic waste of a life-time!

Let us work towards creating a better world where we can divert such sick people's attention towards their own betterment via some psycho therapies or educate them towards something else that positively contributes towards the humanity instead of such people's intellectual lives ending up as proud "martyrs" of freedom to hurt anyone freely behind a wrongly-advertised concept of "freedom".

The true freedom will happen only when we will help such publishers and writers to realize it. Such sick people are only having the "weakest" shot at destroying the very freedom which this writer/publisher tried to use to spread hatred via books like this or many others. Such sick ones don't even deserve a "dialog" cause it will be like giving all the opportunity to the rapist to talk to his/her victim. Only repenting, proper medical/psychological attention and positive direction of life can help such sick minds.

I think I have a suggestion for the author and publisher. If you guys are really that much anti-Muslims, why dont' you try to open an office, build a website, hire people and work via an organized effort? You already took that much pain to write the book, published it via a fake publishing house and distribute it online or offline. Let's see how far can your "freedom" to hurt people's beliefs go without being challenged in a court of law anywhere in the world.

Why did I write that long "REVIEW"? Well, it was NOT meant for any such sick, deaf or absurd people like the publisher or writer. It was meant for all those Muslims who they tried to target. Let me give you an example. There is this beautiful full moon. And someone who is so much ashamed of his/her own terrible-looking face, feels jealous about the beauty of moon. So, s/he decides to spit on the moon. But guess what? Moon is like 238,857 miles away from the very earth s/he stands and his/her spit can travel max 12 feet, dependent upon the strength of the lungs which must have been obviously weakened by a lot of anti-depressants, sleepless nights and drugs abuses i.e. weed, etc.

So, my dear author and publisher, congrats!!! Here's to your success in getting a fame which is obviously going to be very short-lived and serve as the ONLY embarrassment to your fore-fathers and generations to come. But hey, don't worry, I did enjoy writing all this REVIEW "without" even giving a single read to your crap beyond reading the FIRST page out of TWO HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR PAGES (ewww... that's a lot). Please, please, please, try giving at least ONE shot at growing up mate(s)!

Peace!

Amir Ali Tayyab
Qurango.com

Anonymous 30 September 2010 - 8:48pm / US

Why do people write reviews without actually reading the book. Hmm...what does that tell you?

Anonymous 17 February 2010 - 11:17pm

Buy this book at: www.islamofobie.nl

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