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- noun The practice of
destroying books byfire because ofmoral ,religious orpolitical objections to thematerial they contain.
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Examples
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The loony Glenn Beck has now made an all out call for “Tea Party” protests where, apparently, barely educated, book-burning idiots meet in bars to protest …. uh … what exactly???
duh pookie 2009
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I'm aware of the historical implications of book-burning.
Bill O'Reilly Book Burned By Soldiers In Afghanistan (PHOTOS) 2011
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He is willing to admit he was wrong (he has told me such in previous interviews) and this was prominent in the Le Monde op-ed he wrote apologizing for the “book-burning” comments he made in Alexandria.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Will Farouk Hosni be Unesco’s Next Director General ? 2009
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The loony Glenn Beck has now made an all out call for “Tea Party” protests where, apparently, barely educated, book-burning idiots meet in bars to protest …. uh … what exactly???
duh pookie 2009
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If it wasn't for the international Jew conspiracy, Egypt's book-burning culture minister would have become head of UNESCO, culture czar of the UN.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Blogging Farouk Hosni’s Defeat 2009
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Terry Jones called off book-burning after alleged deal to move New York Islamic centre further away from Ground Zero, which Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf denies
Pastor Terry Jones banned from UK after 9/11 Qur'an burning threat 2011
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When Comstock put a book-burning reformer and a prison guard on the seal of his vice society, he meant the figures to be taken quite literally.
Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011
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Ms. Hughes is also too uncritical of her sources: She offers late Roman accounts of the Athenian persecution of intellectuals, long ago rejected as tendentious fictions by serious scholars, as fact and even inflates them into a systematic regime of censorship, book-burning and execution.
Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011
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When Comstock put a book-burning reformer and a prison guard on the seal of his vice society, he meant the figures to be taken quite literally.
Leigh E. Schmidt: The History Of Yoga And Religion In America Leigh E. Schmidt 2011
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Works of literature were routinely destroyed in book-burning bonfires tended by Red Guards.
Cultural Lexicon Melanie Kirkpatrick 2011
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