Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Banning Books

Censorship is a very controversial issue. There are many people who believe that some books and movies have a negative effect on society and therefore should be banned. Other people disagree with this, saying that we can't necessarily trust one group of people to decide what is right and what is wrong for people to read. In level 402, we wrote about this issue. Here are some students' opinions on the matter.

Banning Books
By Wafa Hassan

One day I was watching TV, I saw a programme about books. They were talking about the effects of books on people. They talked about a book its name is How to Be a Good Murderer. It shows a lot of bad things, and I thought they had to ban it. So I think banning books is a good thing, because some of them have bad ideas and wrong thoughts. Also, some of them encourage bad behaviors.

There are some books that have bad ideas. I don’t know why those people write these books. Maybe to sell their books with good profits. For example, I think we should ban the book How to Be a Good Murderer because it shows a lot of bad ideas like ways to kill someone and how to dispose of the body. Also it shows how to use different kinds of guns. If we don’t ban it, it will help to increase the number of crimes and criminals.

There are a lot of books about religion, but not all of them are good. There is a book about Islam. It has a wrong vision and it has wrong thoughts. It says that Islam is very hard and difficult, whereas it is very easy and simple. This is dangerous because people will be afraid of it and they will avoid it.

Some people write books to encourage others to do things that they want, because they have the power of persuasion. For example, there are some books that talk about drugs and how to use them. They also tell you that drugs make you feel good great and very active. Books like this will effect young people very easily and they will use drugs a lot although they are very dangerous and harmful. So for that we have to ban it.

Finally, I can say that banning books is a very good and useful way to protect people from such books. We can trust that it’s a good way to protect people because they are banned by experts who know what is right and what is wrong and they know what they are doing.
Banning Books
Bushra Khaled Own
All people know that the books have been very important in their lives. In all places in the world there are many people addicted to reading. Therefore, they must be careful when they choose their books. I believe that there are many books that have bad and wrong ideas. These ideas will effect upon people’s lives and make them bad. In this case I agree with banning books because it gives people keeping, protection and gives people information about books so that they can choose the best.
Banning books is really good. It can keep the behaviors in the good way. It makes our life more quiet and without harm because some books have some ideas about racism. Some books can teach children violent behaviors, so banning books saves children from that.
Banning books is protective. Some books have wrong ideas about our religion. So banning books protects our religion from that. It makes the parents more conveniently about what their children read because the immoral books were banned. That also makes the teenagers can read any books without feeling ashamed.

Banning books makes people more careful. We can see that when they will choose the books that they want to read because they have information about bad books. In that case people can know which books are non-original books. Some books are magical, so the people must be careful for them. People can fight the books that have dangerous traditional treatment because they become more carefully.

In the end, banning books is beneficial in general. It makes our life safer and convenient. I will be more careful when I go to choose which book I want to read. If we know which the wrong is or the correct we can ban the bad books by ourselves.

Banning Books is Wrong
By Waheeb Mohammed
I disagree with banning books. Anyone can ban them and he doesn't know the benefit of the book. And also he can ban the book to make people stupid and ignorant. And they can book about democracy.

They can ban books that have benefits that they don`t know about. People say that teenbooks have bad things, but sometimes they have good things. Also they say comics books are bad because they are unreal, however some say they are good ways to practice reading for children.

I think the government bans the book to make people stupid and ignorant. They can ban books about the new technology, inventions and books that have information about space. Also historical books that tell us about our grandfathers.

The books about democracy could be banned, too. For examble books that talk about waht the government has to do for people and their rights, so if they didn`t know about their rights, they wouldn`t ask for they. Also books that make people appreciate the sitution, to make people agree with the government.

Because of these reasons, I think there is no one who can ban any book. People read books can say if the book is good or bad and decide to read what they want and there is no one can punish them.
Banning Books
By Emad Salah
As a matter of fact I'm one of the supporters of the idea of banning books because it's a protection for our socity from the possible dangers that may come from some kinds of books. In my opinion, I think there are two main reasons that make banning books a very important step that we have made as we are in an Islamic country. So the first one is a religious reason and the second one is an ethical.

Many non-muslims writers try to deface Islam by writing wrong things about it and to effect on illiterate people so that they leave their religion.

The ethical danger comes directly after. Let's imagine that if we allowed all kinds of books and magazines- no matter whether it is good or bad - if we allowed them to enter our country, they would spread in the bookstores and who knows maybe someday you would find one of them in your younger brother and he reads such as trash things!!

In addition to the reasons that I've mentioned I think there are a lot others, but I think they are the most important. Finally, banning books is a great idea that we have to really appreciate it.

1 comment:

Sanad Abdulrahman Bin Shuaib said...

I believe that censorship is very important in countries like ours because of our traditions and relegion.