people and works that have been banned

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General Billy Mitchell was banned from  the military for lunacy.  Because, he predicted flying gunships that could take out battleships and accurately predicted the Japanese air invasion of Pearl Harbor, with the subsequent invasion of the Philippines, decades before it happened.

After it all happened as predicted, the military in a great oops moment, re-admitted Billy Mitchell and gave him the congressional medal of honor.

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by moment

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His image has inspired millions. The Tank Man, as history has named him, is, in fact, Zhou Fengsuo. On June 4, 1989, when Fengsuo was still a student and a protester, he watched the Chinese military tanks moving into Tiananmen Square. With all hell breaking loose, Fengsuo just stood there in front of the tanks. He was captured, and after four years, the Chinese government just kicked him into exile. Twenty years later, he returned.

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Born as Tensin Gyatso in Taskter, China, in 1940, he was designated the 14th Dalai Lama. As a political leader of Tibet, in 1951, Dalai Lama was the traditional ruler of the “national autonomous region” that the agreement between China and Tibet stated. However, in reality, China punished religious people of Tibet. Dalai Lama was their number one priority. After he disguised himself as a soldier, he was forced to flee and began a permanent exile in India.

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Salman Rushdie

One of the most prolific writers of recent years, Salman Rushdie’s novels are characterized by a unique style which combines magical realism with postmodernist techniques, as well as by a vivid examination of the interactions between East and West. His work has nevertheless been at the centre of controversy: his fourth novel The Satanic Verses (1988) was banned in 13 countries, including India, Sudan and Pakistan, for its supposedly blasphemous references against the prophet Muhammed. The novel was also the cause of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death and announced by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini – a move which fractured all diplomatic relations between Iran and the UK

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J.K. Rowling

Despite having authored some of the most famous and successful books of the last century, J.K. Rowling has not been immune to censorship. According to the American Library Association, Harry Potter is the most banned book in the United States, and has also been banned from private schools in the UAE, and largely criticized by the Iranian government’s press. The main criticism stems from religious groups, who have accused the books of promoting occultism and witchcraft. Rowling herself has responded to these criticisms, stating that she is both proud of being on the ‘most banned’ list, but also cautioning parents on the dangers of narrowing children’s imaginative and literary horizons.

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Nelson Mandela, South African revolutionary and later president of South Africa. Banned from entering the United States The ban was lifted in 2008

Edited December 7, 2019 by moment

[Earl Grey]

Let's not forget J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.