Advertising companies refrained from promoting a book on the Muslim Brotherhood because they considered the topic too “political” for the election period or saw the risk that it could lead to vandalism targeting their business partners. Global Watch Analysis, the press publisher that originated the campaign, criticised an unjustified decision that was tantamount to “censorship”.
Caution, censorship or respect for the law? Although an agreement had been reached, the advertising companies JCDecaux and Insert cancelled a poster campaign in Paris that was supposed to advertise a journalistic book about the Muslim Brotherhood on public billboards and at certain retailers. The offending poster featured the cover of the book, entitled The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood – named after this covertly operating organisation that promotes an identity-based and ultra-conservative Islam – along with the message: “After this book, no one will be able to say they didn’t know.” The two companies, contacted by Marianne magazine, stand by their about-face, citing a too “political” or “sensitive” issue. […]
When the publisher reluctantly agreed to postpone the campaign, it was postponed until June 19, i.e. after the second round of parliamentary elections. “It makes no sense to run a publicity campaign in June for a book that was published in April,” Atmane Tazaghart laments. […]
This book is anything but an incendiary speech,” Atmane Tazaghart stressed to Marianne. It is a document based on the work of a US Congressional investigative committee.” The title of the book is itself nothing more or less than a translation of the title of the report that came out of the US investigative committee. The analyses contained in the book “come from a group of experts who are among the most eminent Islamic scholars in France”, says Atmane Tazaghart.[…]Lire la suite sur Marianne.net, La menace mondiale des frères musulmans, Global Watch Analysis