The Great Replacement

The Great Replacement is a text file by Brenton Tarrant. An appeal was filed by The Kiwi Party Incorporated, and the Board held their prior decision.

What makes it interesting is that interpretation, devotion, satire, or doctrinal conflict becomes a matter of state administration. As a text file, 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 New Zealand. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: 74 page Manifesto published prior to the Christchurch mosque shootings. Banned for promoting murder and terrorism. An appeal was filed by The Kiwi Party Incorporated, and the Board held their prior decision. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

The Great Replacement entered censorship debates as a text file 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 2019 in New Zealand, where Office of Film and Literature Classification classified, prohibited, or restricted. 74 page Manifesto published prior to the Christchurch mosque shootings. Banned for promoting murder and terrorism. An appeal was filed by The Kiwi Party Incorporated, and the Board held their prior decision. 74 page Manifesto published prior to the Christchurch mosque shootings. Banned for promoting murder and terrorism. An appeal was filed by The Kiwi Party Incorporated, and the Board held their prior decision.

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.

• 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.

• Wikipedia: List of books banned in New Zealand reference 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