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Oh dear...

"This book constitutes a hate crime" is so transparent an argument against a book obviously deploying racist and homophobic terms in satire and critique that it actually renders the accusation itself a hate crime, since what other motivation could they have for burning, as well as banning, a book about a young homosexual? It couldn't be homophobia, could it? Surely not!

Lets face it, they have found something they dislike and they are trying to ban it under the flimsy pretext of its offensive use of expletives? Shit me, well, if were going to start doing that I suppose half the books on my shelves would be illegal. We can get rid entirely of Irvine Welsh, Solomon Northup, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Heller and Graham Greene, because they all at some point use the word "nigger" and the word "faggot".

This is never getting to a real court, no fucking way. This would be thrown out by a conservative-racist judge, let alone a liberal one with common fucking sense.

These are the same people who openly claim to get their morality directly out of the bible. Hypocrites.

And oh yeah, I was exposed to indecent lewness, since Adam and Eve are both portrayed as naked, and I was not pre-warned of it before reading it. They also copulated out of marriage.

Or realistically, who says we can't organize and file a law suit against religious institutions for what they publish?

If church dummies can do it, surely atheists, who are by far more intelligent than christians, not be able to do it?

It does preach mysogyny, it does preach racism, it does preach homophobia, even with teh punishment for the latter being public execution. Surely that promotes violence.

I say we organise, find some lawyers who're into it, and I can guarantee there will be a shit load of lawyers willing to take that case pro bono.

We could find thousands of mentally ill people who can testify to the harmful delusion and paranoia and fear that religious books have caused them.

I say we get together and make one strong push to rid the world of Cobra, I mean religion.

Yo Joe!

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Considering they'd be testifying only to how crazy they are, I don't see why not!

No, you're right, it doesn't. Plus we haven't even considered the role that psychiatrists and psychologists can play in getting rid of it. The testimony of a victim of religious delusion is nothing compared to the testimony of mental health care proffesionals concerning the damage these books do.

Ha! I've got nothing left to lose! Thanks to Christians and Jews. Nothing left for them to take from me. Lawyers don't frighten me. I think it would be amazing if we, or others, figured out how to rip religious people apart with their own weapons.

I am located in India and in 2008 there was a big terrorist attack in Bombay/Mumbai that claimed many lives. All the terrorists from that attack were killed except one who survived (Ajmal Kasab). Kasab was arrested by the police and taken to court, his trial took a year and half...after which he was found guilty by the court, which is weird because there was ample footage of the guy spraying bullets on citizens being shown on the news the day it happened. Now I am not a man of the law but a video and pictures of a guy running around with a rifle that is almost as big as he is in the middle of a train station sounds like evidence to me. Human rights groups also protested his execution as it violates human rights.....???? So where were the same activists when innocent people were being killed for no reason or rather a self propagated reason by a bunch of fundamentalists with hidden motives. I am guessing their logic is dead people dont have rights. Fucking ridiculous