The New
York Times reports that prison chaplains
are being forced to remove thousands of religious books from prison libraries
out of a fear of extremist texts inciting people to terrorism. Excerpt:
“It’s swatting a fly with a
sledgehammer,” said Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, a Christian
group. “There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books
that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece
of literature that presents extremism.”