This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The “Hindi-Urdu controversy”- the ongoing dispute over the idea that the two Asian languages are the same - is so widespread it has its own Wikipedia page.Īfter consulting with “a professor of Hindi language and literature at a major Canadian university,” the review committee failed to take a side, but kept the book because “as in all languages, there are different opinions on correct usage.” A complainant wrote that the book should be removed from the collection because it inaccurately states that “Hindi and Urdu are paired languages.” The committee replied that “the theory that Oswald acted alone is one of the currently accepted versions of the assassination” and urged the customer to check out the library’s wide selection of “books by authors who dispute this conclusion.”Ī ban request on the book Complete Hindi required a bit more legwork by the committee. HandoutĪ January request to ban Killing Kennedy by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was done on the basis that the book “Contains falsehoods because it concludes Kennedy was killed by Oswald alone.” One conspiracy theorist even tried a hand at Toronto Library book censorship. “One of the library’s selection criteria is demand and this title has circulated over 1,600 times,” they wrote. In that case, the library merely outlined the book’s popularity. “The customer watched only 10 minutes of the movie so did not see that the teacher’s behaviour was recognized as illegal,” wrote the committee.Īnother customer checked out an audiobook version of the 1983 romance novel A Kiss Remembered and then complained that it was “obscene and offends current societal morality.” The critically panned money-losing film opens with a teacher having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, for which she is later jailed. The 2012 movie That’s My Boy, starring Adam Sandler, attracted a complaint that it features “sick and illegal behaviour and depicts it as humorous.” “The author wrote it to help children deal with bullies as it shows a little girl facing her fears and finding her own inner strength, depicted by the lion,” replied the committee. In addition to Hop on Pop, one anonymous library user sought to ban Lizzy’s Lion, a 1984 rhyming picture book that features a girl’s pet lion eating a robber. The committee’s report, tabled Monday before the Toronto Public Library Board, revealed that they reviewed ban requests on a total of five books, one DVD and one audiobook over the course of 2013. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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