Amazon Bans Tommy Robinson’s Book, ‘Mohammed’s Koran’
By Robert Spencer
March 5, 2019

On January 7 of this year, I published an article at PJ Media about Amazon removing doormats featuring Qur’an verses from sale because the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found them offensive. In that article, I asked:

How long will it be before Hamas-linked CAIR starts demanding that books that criticize jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others also be dropped by Amazon?

The answer turned out to be 51 days.

It’s the British government and the BBC, rather than CAIR, that are likely behind this, but Amazon has just dropped the book Mohammed’s Koran by the renowned British activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin -- and apparently only because its censors dislike Robinson. In the last two weeks, Robinson spectacularly embarrassed the BBC by exposing the bias and dishonesty of its reporter John Sweeney. The retaliation has been swift and severe: Robinson has been banned from YouTube and Facebook, and now his book has been withdrawn from sale.

Coauthor Peter McLoughlin states:

[T]his is the twenty-first century equivalent of the Nazis taking out the books from university libraries and burning them. Can you think of another scholarly book on Islam that has been banned by Amazon? Mein Kampf is for sale on Amazon. As are books like the terrorist manual called The Anarchist Cookbook.

McLoughlin is correct that Amazon’s behavior has been wildly inconsistent. He adds that Amazon officials are steadfastly mum on why the book was banned:

[They] refuse to reinstate the book and refuse to explain why it has been banned. So they have banned the No.1 best-selling exegesis of the Koran. I can’t get my head round it. Every few weeks for the past 18 months they had emailed me asking to put it into special sales programmes, as it was selling so well. For 18 months they sought to profit even more from the sales.

“As dark as my vision is,” McLoughlin concludes, “I thought we were 10 to 20 years away from dissenting books from being banned.”

Tommy Robinson Turns the Tables on the BBC

Indeed. Those who object to my labeling Leftist totalitarians “fascists” should take careful note of this story. What group is most famous for burning books? That’s right. And what group is doing it now? Right again. I predicted this, but like Peter McLoughlin, I didn’t think it would come so soon.

This is an extremely ominous development. Amazon and Barnes and Noble -- which is also not carrying this book -- have a virtual monopoly on book sales. When these two giants refuse to carry a book, that book effectively does not exist. If they are now going to ban books that are critical of Islam and opposed to jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others, then an Islam-critical perspective will be almost impossible to find anywhere.

Some will applaud this as the ultimate and laudable demise of “Islamophobia,” but it is actually far more insidious. If the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists cannot be criticized or even discussed openly, jihad terrorists will have an absolutely free hand. They will act with impunity, secure in the knowledge that any criticism of their activities will be shut down the same way Tommy Robinson was shut down.

Whatever anyone thinks of Tommy Robinson or the Qur’an, this is a serious matter that anyone who cares about the freedom of speech should be extremely concerned about.

Mohammed’s Koran is critical of Islam’s holy book. It endeavors to illustrate how violent jihadists justify their actions by referring to Islamic texts and teachings -- and that’s all. Robinson and McLoughlin call for no violence. Their book is accurate.

Anyone who has written a book that is critical of anything should read the writing on the wall and realize that once this censorship begins, it won’t end with Tommy Robinson or Qur’an-critical books. But they won’t. PEN, the international organization that is supposedly dedicated to defending the freedom of speech, is made up of hard-Leftists who won’t utter a whisper in defense of Tommy Robinson’s book, or a murmur of protest that it is not allowed to be sold.

They don’t realize that what is being done to him can be done to them. But it will be.

Tommy Robinson: The New Untouchable

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/am...ohammeds-koran/

While trying to find a copy of Mohammed's Koran for sale on line I came across the following review. It contain's someinteresting information on how the lie of Islam as a religion of peace is propagated.

Monday, 28 August 2017
Mohammed's Koran by Peter McLoughlin and Tommy Robinson

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Mohammed’s Koran, sub headed Why Muslims Kill for Islam is important for this reason.

It explains the ordering of the Koran and how the ordering affects the Doctrine of Abrogation. In Islam, where one passage of the Koran contradicts another, the Doctrine of Abrogation decrees that the later verse is the one to be followed; the earlier one is cancelled out by those revelations that came later.

So it is vital to know the chronological order in which the verses were revealed to Mohammed over the eleven year period that Muslims believe he received them.

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The Koran is arranged differently. The books are arranged in order of size. Therefore it takes a scholar who knows these things, not an ordinary reader, to know that the earliest revelation is Sura (Chapter) 96, The Clot, in which Allah created man from a clot of blood.

The earliest revelations came when Mohammed didn’t have many followers and was living in pagan, multi-faith Mecca. He wanted to attract more followers; those he had were few in number and needed to be on good terms with the other inhabitants of Mecca. The revelations at that period were peaceful and conciliatory. In 622AD Mohammed and his followers migrated to Medina and once there he discovered that the use of force gained him more followers. From a position of strength new warlike revelations cancelled out, or abrogated, the peaceful and conciliatory ones of the Meccan period. They culminated with the final two major suras, Sura 5 and Sura 9.

Sura 9 contains the ‘verse of the sword’

"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful"

The Cambridge Companion to the Koran says that one verse alone abrogates 124 earlier verses of peace and goodwill.

What McLoughlin explores is not why Muslims study the Koran in the tradition they do, but why Western tradition and knowledge was quietly changed in the years after 1945 to the same encrypted form. Further during the late 18th century, the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century politicians, statesmen, clergymen and scholars of the English-speaking world (and in France and Germany) knew the warlike conquering nature of Islam. Men like Sir Winston Churchill and US President Thomas Jefferson were well aware of the flaws of Islam; in recent years men and women like George W Bush and every British Prime Minister since Tony Blair insist that Islam is a Religion Of Peace and they quote snippets constantly from the early Meccan verses to prove it.

He calls this The Grand Lie, and its proponents Quislings, which is apt for a lie that didn’t gain traction until the years immediately after WWII.

What particularly interested me was his chapter about the excellent 19th century translation (1876) by an English Anglican clergyman the Revd John Medows Rodwell, vicar of two City of London churches and friend of Charles Darwin. His translation, in chronological order, with clear and informative notes, and an introduction by the Revd G Margoliouth (a scholar from a family of converts from Judaism to the Church of England) was published as part of the mass-market Everyman series and reprinted almost annually from 1900 to 1937. Then sometime in the 1950s the publishers changed their favoured translation to that of the convert to Islam, Muhammed Pickthall (1930), and his order is that of the encrypted version used in the Arabic editions.

Pre-war second hand copies of the Everyman editions are scarce. However the text remains available on line. At the Gutenberg Project here, the Sacred text website here and as a print or kindle download of the Gutenberg website here. That has received criticism for being a translation at all, being the work of Anglicans, and the chronological order.

The final two thirds of Mohammed’s Koran is, as the name suggests the Koran in the chronological order that Mohamed conveyed it to his followers. To be accurate it is in reverse chronological order to bring home to the reader the violence of those last Suras, Sura 5 and Sura 9.

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https://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_di...m?blog_id=66549


eVersion of Robinson's book:

http://ebookmar.com/products/22447020-mo...ihoCNuIQAvD_BwE