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Donald Trump and Ben Carson are Right About Islam and America
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are Right About Islam and America is a book by J. Ross. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.
Description
About the work
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are Right About Islam and America is a book by J. Ross. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.
What makes it interesting is that interpretation, devotion, satire, or doctrinal conflict becomes a matter of state administration. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.
It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Wisconsin. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: People. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.
Overview
Why it was banned
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are Right About Islam and America entered censorship debates as a book associated with doctrine, public controversy, and religion. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around religious control and religious offense.
The earliest event currently captured here is 2016-12-21 in Wisconsin, where Wisconsin corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: People. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: People entitled to opinion and can espouse religious.
This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.
This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.
Counter and critical readings
Context, rebuttals, and criticism
- Assassins of the Mind Christopher Hitchens
Frames the Rushdie affair as a test of free speech against violent religious intimidation.
- From Fatwa to Jihad Kenan Malik
Tracks how conflicts over blasphemy, race, and offense evolved after the Rushdie controversy.
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight
Useful for comparing older obscenity, heresy, and political bans with modern free-speech disputes.
Ban history
Known government actions
| Date | Jurisdiction | Action | Reason | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-21 | Wisconsin | excluded from prison circulation | The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: People. | The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: People entitled to opinion and can espouse religious. |
Sources
Harvested references for this page
- The Marshall Project: Banned book lists from 18 states database partial
- Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
- Christopher Hitchens: Assassins of the Mind article partial
- From Fatwa to Jihad book not started
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial