The banning of books has become the new “Oprah Effect.”
As governments and other organizations try to crack down on the spread of material they find offensive, the popularity of those works rises when they are labeled “deviant.”
Today, books continue to be challenged or banned in the United States and around the world. You would think we would have learned from history, but the scary reality is that sometimes the authors themselves are still being prosecuted and imprisoned by world governments for their publications and free thoughts.
Now a Bangladeshi court has issued an arrest warrant for Salam Azad, the writer of Bhanga Math (Broken Temple). The 2003 novel was banned for blasphemy by the Bangladeshi government in 2004 because it allegedly contains remarks against the Prophet Muhammad.

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