October 13, 2006
Australian University Library Seeks Exemption From Ban on Books Said to Inspire Terrorism
The vice chancellor of a leading Australian university has called on the country's government to withdraw a controversial decision to ban two books at his institution's library.
The two books, Defence of the Muslim Lands and Join the Caravan, were written by Abdullah Azzam, an Islamic militant and onetime lecturer at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz University who was assassinated in 1989. Last year the library at the University of Melbourne purchased the books, which have been used by
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