{"id":70,"date":"2007-08-06T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T23:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/08\/06\/destroy-the-books-theyre-full-of-lies\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T16:09:30","slug":"destroy-the-books-theyre-full-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/70","title":{"rendered":"Destroy the Books &#8211; They&#8217;re Full of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> reported online today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/\">Cambridge University Press<\/a> (CUP) has settled a libel lawsuit with Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi banker. Mahfouz cried foul when CUP published <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/61361578&amp;referer=brief_results\">Alms for Jihad<\/a><\/em> by Robert O. Collins and J. Millard Burr, which contained allegations that the businessman financed terrorists around the world in the 1990s. This shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, as Mafhouz has successfully sued for libel against three other publishers for works with similar accusations.<\/p>\n<p>You might be thinking, &#8220;What does that have to do with the library?&#8221; Well, CUP&#8217;s settlement included that the press will destroy all unsold copies of the books and attempt to persaude libraries to take the book of their shelves. The University Library does not own <em>Alms for Jihad<\/em>, but one of the other titles under fire by Mr. Mahfouz. A librarian from Virginia Tech assessed the situation by saying, &#8220;If we were to remove this book, would we by implication be saying that we stand behind the factual accuracy and fairness of the remaining 1,999,999?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? What should libraries like UW-Madison that own <em>Alms for Jihad<\/em> do with the book?<\/p>\n<p>For more information, you can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v53\/i49\/49a01201.htm\">original article from the Chronicle<\/a> or check Mr. Mahfouz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binmahfouz.info\/en_index.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education reported online today that Cambridge University Press (CUP) has settled a libel lawsuit with Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi banker. Mahfouz cried foul when CUP published Alms for Jihad by Robert O. Collins and J. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/70\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[178,299,300,189],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-books","tag-censorship","tag-libel","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}