A New York Times article describes the consequences of a 2004 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Justice Department: banning religious texts in prisons in order to prevent religious radicalization of prisoners. The Bureau of Prisons has created a list of approved works, and, of course, some chaplains and religious groups are protesting the practice of removing the unapproved books from prison libraries. Among works excluded are books by Robert Schuller, Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and Cardinal Avery Dulles, all Christian writers of one sort or another.
Banning books in the name of terrorism: didn't you just know this was going to happen?
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