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- angrytortilla, on 11/09/2009, -6/+157Yeah well Hezbollah offends everyone else.
- StigNordas, on 11/09/2009, -8/+75Looks like all Lebanese kids get one book this year: The Qur'an. Enjoy!
- drmangrum, on 11/09/2009, -5/+42Jimmy cracked corn and I think the rest of the world could give two ***** and a rats ass about Hezbollah's opinion.
- twohoundogs, on 11/09/2009, -5/+41***** Hezbollah!
- Deveak, on 11/09/2009, -1/+34wow, Hezbollah went full retard, you never go full retard!
- PointGiven, on 11/09/2009, -1/+33I was hoping this was an Onion article.
- mushoo, on 11/09/2009, -5/+35Why do religious retards always want to ban/burn/censor books?
- EndAntiSemitism, on 11/09/2009, -6/+35Tacit form of holocaust denial as far as i'm concerned.
- DreadPirate, on 11/09/2009, -1/+29It is not limited to religious folks. Look at how many places have banned books like "Huckleberry Finn" just because it contains the word *****. It is all about intolerance, and can unfortunately be found everywhere.
- papashawn, on 11/09/2009, -3/+30***** YOU HEZBORRAH
- lurcherman, on 11/09/2009, -5/+32And just a few decades ago Lebanon was net even regarded as Muslim, yet now they throw their weight around in that country with ease.
- Zacktopia, on 11/09/2009, -4/+31For a second I thought you were going to say Jimmy Carter likes them so they must be okay. By the way, Hezbollah murdered 241 American servicemen in Beirut on a peace keeping mission in 1983. Also by the way, we haven't settled that score yet.
- elijahyossie, on 11/09/2009, -4/+30Wow, not even a state school!
- quirkopatra, on 11/09/2009, -3/+27'Hezbollah slammed Anne Frank's diary the book for focusing on the persecution of Jews."
Duh.... - joculator, on 11/09/2009, -3/+22They're just upset there hasn't been a sequel.
- danielttt, on 11/09/2009, -3/+21If their so called traged were in any respect real, these evil bastards would have some modicum of sympathy and respect for Anne Frank. Hezbollah is a hate group and ONLY a hate group.
- fatalvaux, on 11/09/2009, -2/+19banning books never does anybody any good. It just makes the government look like a bunch of pussies for being afraid of their citizens practicing thought. 1984, anyone?
- EndAntiSemitism, on 11/09/2009, -4/+20Wow... so many things wrong with this post I don't even know where to start?
First of all, I think you are confusing the palestinian residents of gaza with the lebanese which is the height of ignorance, but based on your comment history not surprising; I still remember you posting your desire to see the country of israel nuked.
Second of all, if you were referring to the palestinian population, the adjective "genocide" is highly inappropriate, demeaning, and inaccurate considering the rapid population growth they've experienced, even just in the last ten years.
"jewish sob stories"
***** you. - Speed, on 11/10/2009, -1/+16"Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel ran a report slamming the book for focusing on the persecution of Jews."
Well, she certainly wasn't going to write about the geography of the Netherlands now, was she? - Zacktopia, on 11/09/2009, -2/+17@insightful : Your wiki link contains the following insight: "Both the Israeli and US governments conducted inquiries into the incident, and issued reports concluding that the attack was a tragic mistake, caused by confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty."
Uncle Sam disagrees with you. Thanks for invalidating and discrediting your version of the Liberty incident. - ozziedog, on 11/09/2009, -2/+17It wasn't a so-called tragedy. It was a tragedy. Deny one and you deny them all.
- vinod1978, on 11/09/2009, -1/+15We should have never legitimized Hezbollah in the 1st place!
- xshare, on 11/09/2009, -4/+17I can tell you for a fact they are definitely not banned.
- Amadeus2490, on 11/09/2009, -0/+11OR YOU'LL BURN IN HEEEEEEEELLLLL!
*Peewee Herman rides by on his bike* - lead2thehead, on 11/10/2009, -1/+12I'm so tired of hearing that the Muslims are offended again.
- kaijunexus, on 11/09/2009, -0/+11Even the Japanese loath Hezbollah!
- niselat, on 11/10/2009, -0/+10If a white American did this there would be international outrage. are we so terrified of muslims that things like this can pass without comment?
- Barackalypse, on 11/09/2009, -4/+14Why does the Government?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_ ... - Elsewhere42, on 11/09/2009, -2/+12Hear no Evil
See no Evil
Speak no Evil - omgwtflawl, on 11/10/2009, -1/+11Mein Kampfy Chair
- SandyLanders, on 11/09/2009, -3/+12Oh the Hellabazoo leaders are offended?! Tell them to go pound sand.
- papashawn, on 11/09/2009, -3/+12they envy the literate.
- giyad, on 11/10/2009, -1/+10not sure if you're just trying to be funny, but... Lebanon has a huge christian population.
- neomatrix724, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9God forbid people learn anything from history or literature. Educated folk can be and usually are dangerous to those in power.
- Junkyarddawg, on 11/10/2009, -2/+10Any mention of the holocaust, except to deny it, offends Hezbollah. You propose revising history to accomodate their sensibilities?
- giyad, on 11/09/2009, -6/+14you guys are missing an important point here.
hezbollah is offended, but the fact that this is even being taught in lebanon is amazing. You probably can't even buy anne franks diary in any other arab country! It shows how open minded Lebanon is, and how you can't judge Lebanon based on Hezbollah, you can't generalize. I grew up in Kuwait, in an american school, and they blacked out every entry of israel, blacked out the maps that even showed israel (as if to brainwash us and makes us think israel doesn't exist haha). I would actually look at a map when I was younger and say, why is there a black spot on the medditerannean... Yet you hear of Kuwait as being an ally to the US and more tolerant.
See how easily the news can be twisted, you get what you want from what you read, if you only read one point of view, you only get that one.
But another point is, I'm sure in Israel they won't teach you about arab persecution, or arab history. Honestly you can't be so stubborn and be surprised even that Hezbollah would do something like this. - fragomatik, on 11/09/2009, -7/+15FTA: "These respected, established schools are teaching the so-called tragedy this girl lived, and yet they are ashamed to teach the tragedy of the Lebanese people, the tragedy of the Palestinian people"
So-called tragedy? Wow! Denying one group's plight in favour of another's, isn't the way to go. How about some balance? Teaching both side-by-side would encourage people to relate. Relating to each other is a small but crucial step to normalising relations between Israel and Hezbollah. But Hezbollah don't seem to want that. - lurrch1, on 11/10/2009, -3/+11The real story is that only one school in the whole country has a text book that mentions Ann Frank.
- BareBeliever, on 11/09/2009, -3/+10I don't understand how there are people out there that deny the holocaust ever happened! Fear is truly blinding at times.
- tolya7, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7I went to a private school in Israel back in 1999-2000 and I can certainly assure you that nothing was ever censored. The West Bank and Gaza were definitely on the map and we didn't deny Muhammad from our history class.
- elijahyossie, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8Hezbollah does indeed run some impressive general welfare programmes.
Pity they are murderous bastards with it, of course. - Scottamus, on 11/10/2009, -0/+7In other news Hezbollah slammed everything not related to the Koran for focusing on something other than the Koran.
- fandyboy, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8enatom, what the ***** are you gibbering on about?
- Zacktopia, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8Are you referring to Frida Kahlo? She had a unibrow and she said her father was Jewish, however researchers discovered that Guillermo Kahlo's parents were not Jewish but Lutheran Germans.
So ends the unibrow inquiry.
Is that some kind of racial thing? What actually was your point? - DreadPirate, on 11/10/2009, -1/+7danielttt - As much as I may dislike Hezbollah, they do work on a lot of humanitarian programs. Not because they are innately good people, but specifically to be liked by the populace. Being so popular allows you to get into power in elections, and makes the populace less likely to help out your opponents.
- elijahyossie, on 11/10/2009, -2/+8I've not heard of any Israeli censorship of books used in private schools - and it's the sort of thing that, Israeli left-wing papers would report, I'm sure.
- chiddler, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Yes; I went to middle/high school in the UAE and Israel was ripped out of my geography book.
I'm surprised they have had this book in their curriculum, private school or not. - joejitsu, on 11/09/2009, -6/+12Mein Kempf too.
- fragomatik, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Am I being dugg-down for proposing that people make peace by *relating* to each other? Now *that's* confusing.
- kartman2001, on 11/10/2009, -1/+7enatom Oh yeah I remember how the Jews in Poland were snuggling in arms and launching rockets at the Nazis....Oh Wait
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