[Buddha-l] Dangerous religious literature?

[jkirk]

 This service, connected to Ven. Loori's Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate
NY, offers books:

National Buddhist Prison Sangha / Zen Mountain Monastery 
PO Box 197, South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper NY 12457
The National Buddhist Prison Sangha is a nationwide support network offering
personal guidance, support, and instruction for prisoners interested in Zen
Buddhist practice through correspondence, books, audio tapes, and a series
of training manuals specially designed for prison practitioners.

JK
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Dear denizens,

Another interesting article in the New York Times that caught my eye
recently was about a policy to clear US prison libraries of potentially
dangerous religious literature. Apparently this whole thing got started
shortly after the 2001 celebration of my daughter's birthday on September
11. Something happened that day that alarmed American prison authorities
into thinking that Muslims might become dangerous radicals if allowed to
read some Muslim writings while in prison.

Not wanting to appear as if they were singling out Muslims for special
censorship, the prison authorities decided to set up lists of up to 150
books from each of 20 religious traditions that prisoners are allowed to
read. (The Napoleonic Code comes to America at last! Everything that is not
expressly declared to be legal is illegal.) All books NOT on the allowed
list must be removed from prison libraries........................

Still on the outside looking in,
Richard Hayes
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