Jewish group calls for prosecution of Dutch shop selling Mein Kampf

[Dombra]

Why ban mein kampf when the bible and the quran are creating much more havoc in the world?

[Anglojew]

You really like to practice your signature, don't you?

You're really more kristallnacht than crystal maiden aren't you?

Nice try but I'm not against banning Mein Kampf.

[CrystalMaiden]

You're really more kristallnacht than crystal maiden aren't you?

In whole sense of the word

Nice try but I'm not against banning Mein Kampf.

I wasn't referring to this thread alone

[alb0zfinest]

Now I'm not a fan of Hitler ideology, but why is it that any sort of book is banned? There are plenty of offensive books that say hateful things for other ethnicities like heart of darkness which depicts the Africans of the Congo to be like animals. At some points it is even questioned if they could think. And even calls for their killing. Yet that isn't banned, but this is?

As soon basic things such as this are banned, than it is a democracy no longer. Books like the Qur'an that call for the murder of apostates, and books like the bible that call for hating gays and considering them as inferior yet those are allowed (no offense to those religious peoples but tis be the truth).

[The Lawspeaker]

I believe in the freedom of expression as guaranteed in our constitution (this is why the government couldn't ban the book) - however the copyright over the Dutch translation rests with the State as an entity and thus printing and selling Dutch translation is copyright infringement. However: by 2015 the copyright will become void.

[microrobert]

Case against “Mein Kampf” seller moves forward

In the controversial case about the owner of the Totalitarian Art Gallery in Amsterdam, who kept and sold Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical Nazi manifesto ‘Mein Kampf’, the Public Prosecution Authority (OM) has decided to prosecute Michiel van Eyck.

The book’s contents are hurtful towards Jewish people, and breeds hate, discrimination and violent acts towards the Jewish community, the OM says. In The Netherlands, spreading by selling Mein Kampf is illegal if the seller can reasonably say that it is hurtful, or inciting hate, discrimination and violent acts.

In January, Van Eyck was questioned by the police. He stated that he knew the contents of the book are indeed hateful. The OM says that the gallery owner did not want to give information about the discriminate or factual information inside the book at sale. Police seized any stock of the book still present in the gallery.

The Federative Jewish Netherlands filed a police report against Van Eyck in October of last year for selling the forbidden book in his gallery.

Earlier this year, Van Eyck said that the book is a historic artifact, which suits his collection of despotic memorabilia from Nazi Germany, Maoist Communist China, and the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin. At the time, he insisted the law should be changed, and was happy to go to court to fight for his cause. “I will go on to the judge”, he said.

On the 26th of August, the court in Amsterdam will have a pre-trial review, in preparation for the court session.

Case against "Mein Kampf" seller moves forward - NL Times

[pinguino]

Amazing. Here you can buy that garbage of a book anywhere. It is a book written by a loser, and of course, usually losers buy it, anyways.