Monday 2 October, 2006
Book bans
An article in Melbourne University's UniNews Vol. 15, No. 18 2 - 16 October 2006 states that, 'The University of Melbourne has written to the Commonwealth Attorney General asking for clarification of the position regarding two books held in the University Library which have been banned by the Classification Review Board. The two books - Defence of the Muslim Lands and Join the Caravan by a Palestinian Islamist, the late Abdallah Azzam - were bought by the Library in 2005 for a course on jihad taught by an eminent University historian, Associate Professor Richard Pennell, the Al-Tajir Lecturer in Middle Eastern history.'
And so The War Against Civil Rights continues.
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